June 11, 2020. Public safety and Neighborhood Services. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. I am afnay el mandelman. We are joined by supervisor stefani and walton. Our clerk is john carroll. Thank you sfgovtv for staffing this meeting and operations and it for lending support for this meeting and for everything you all do to keep us going smoothly most of the time, even in a pandemic. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Yes, to protect Board Members and the public during the Health Emergency the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is pursuant to various local, state, federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through video and participate as if they were present. Public comment is available for each item. Cable channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the calling number on the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Comment Period are available by calling 415 4156550001. When prompted enter the access code.
Pay for themselves and tickets. We dont know why you dont do enforcement. What is the sfmtas opposition to enforcing the regulations that are here to make traffic work rather than letting it be a free for all. If you want to snow slow streets suggestions talk to us, weve got ideas you could use right now in soma. We have no slow streets and we would love them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. So speaker, if you can start talking. My name is brian and i walk San Francisco vision zero organizer and member of the senior and disability workgroup. We really appreciate all walk San Francisco all that you are doing to keep us moving safely, specifically thank you for this work to speed up muni service and the transit only lanes and so we can actually keep levels high and we know that this is critical not only for public and the pandemic but also for publichealth related to the citys vision zero goal and in terms of ways making it safe to walk we appreciate the slow Streets Programm
Democratic primary debate for the 14th Congressional District, which covers part of queens in the bronx. As you can see on the map, this stretches several neighborhoods including Jackson Heights and was story. The seat is currently held by alexandria a convio cortez we also invite some of the leading candidates challenging her to this debate. Tonight were joined by Michelle Caruso cabrera and Community Leader and activists badrun khan. You can see the full debate on nyone. Com we are taping this on thursday, june 4. Now on to the opening statement. This was determined by a random drawing. Michelle Caruso Cabrera will go first. Good evening. Good evening. These are troubling times for the country. We need to come together as we grapple with the murder of george floyd and the impact it has had. We need unity. The choice the voters face could not be more clear. I am about unity and my opponent is about divisiveness and polarization. She was the only democrat to vote against 75 million for
At 5 30 p. M. Eastern. Later in the week debate on the Police Reform bill introduced by South Carolina republic and senator tim scott. Now live to the senate floor on cspan2. Senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal spirit, the source of our joy, were grateful that you still speak to us. Continue to communicate with our lawmakers through the voice of conscience. Enable them to maintain a clear conscience before you and humanity. Continue to speak to them through the precepts in your sacred word, providing them with a lamp for their feet and a light for their path, as they navigate through this challenging season. Continue to speak to them through the unfolding of your powerful providence, Opening Doors you desire them to walk through and closing doors that lead them away from glorifying you. And lord, when you speak to our lawmakers, give them the wisdom to listen and obey. We pray in your gracious name. Amen.
Police and Police Activities what do you think baldwin may meant when he said he could gauge a Nations Health we can all by examining those people that elected to represent are protected what is the health of your nation right now i think the world is able to see that this nation is far from healthy that our Police Departments are the most dramatic expression of Structural Racism that our prisons are full of black people and latinos that. That we have to have an abolitionist imagination if we want to guarantee a future for our city our standing nation and for the world what does that mean for ill get on to abolitionists as regards the Prison Industrial Complex and the police but obviously the f. B. I. Targeted you set in media circles people know about watergate do you think itll take a lot longer to know about cointelpro well increasing numbers of people are aware. The extent to which the government attempt it to wipe out all of those who were resisting those who actually represented