In cages. And to and frisk us, treat us as citizens whos righ whose rights are not respected. Is say that their lives are not afforded the same dignity and respect as white lives. Why is that . X people are afraid of africanamerican men. There are studies that show that many people have reactions of anxiety. There is research that shows that people do not think of africanamericans as human beings. There are all these stereotypes about criminality associated peered some of that is based on statistics with a breakdown in the book. I understand why people have these concerns, because if you look at street crime, africanamerican men represent a large number. I do talk about some men who have experienced people who do not want to sit next to them on the subway. On the amtrak, you can sit wherever you want, and he says it is always the last seat next to him to be filled. On southwest airline, you can choose your seat, so sports journalists will joke that if a black man is sitting in the seat
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Meeting meeting of San Francisco board of appeals presiding officer commissioner president honda and commissioner wilson commissioner fung will be absent this evening to my left is brad the deputy City Attorney and will provide advise gary and my name is Cynthia Goldstein the boards executive director. Were joined by Scott Sanchez at the table had in the front the Zoning Administrator and representing the Planning Department and Planning Commission should be joined by senior building inspector joe duffy who will be representing of the inspection please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibited. Out in the hallway. Permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. Have up to 3 minutes no rebuttal. To assist the board in the accurate preparation of the minutes, members of the public are asked, not required to submit a speaker card or Business Card to the clerk. Have up to 3 minutes no rebutt
Of lafco minutes from 2016. Okay colleagues, any comments or changes to our minutes okay we can go to Public Comment, Public Comment is open on the lafco minutes seeing no rush to the podium well close Public Comment and a motion to approval of the minutes a motion if commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner avalos without objection and go on to our next item. Item number 3 the communities choice aggregation Choice Committee report. See if this works. Good afternoon, commissioners michael the director of chief of Police Program for the Public Utilities Commission Im here on behalf of the general manager hale. And ms. Hale wanted me to say shes sad to miss that meeting we working closely with you over the years ms. Hale in particular to develop and launch the chief of Police Program and on behalf of ms. Hale thank you for your leadership in getting the program launched with respect to the update on the program the cleanpowersf Program Continues to successfully serve customers w
Commissioner avalos the carry of the commission allergy joined by cynthia pollock and to my far rest by commissioner commissioner campos and well be joinld shortly by commissioner mar and our clerk is major madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Very good thank you and wed like also to express my appreciation for sfgovtv staff jesse larson and phil jackson for broadcasting and recordings todays meeting madam clerk to our first item and. Second item. The approval of the minutes of lafco minutes from 2016. Okay colleagues, any comments or changes to our minutes okay we can go to Public Comment, Public Comment is open on the lafco minutes seeing no rush to the podium well close Public Comment and a motion to approval of the minutes a motion if commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner avalos without objection and go on to our next item. Item number 3 the communities choice agg