accessibility of guns in the city. will san francisco take the lead to address these serious issues? my request when everyone mentions this is, if not now, when? we talk about it, we cry about it, we pray about it, but we have not been able to really do anything about gun-control. obviously, prevention and intervention is the best measure. i feel a lot of sympathy for mary scott s healing circle. i have been there to lobby and help them also in the past. i think this ongoing issue with gun-control is to rampant. we need to do something about it. before i close, i want to show you what guns have been doing to america. i hope this shows it. supervisor avalos: thank you. good afternoon. my name is sheila greer. i would like to thank the supervisors first for hearing me this morning. i am a victim of murder, a witness. i came forward to san francisco and i stood up for what i believed. i believe in what you guys said, what you said about our communities. now the city is leaving
we are located on 96 broad street. the third murder happened down the street from us. one of my staff actually went out to the scene to try to revive a young man. she was unsuccessful. he died in front of her and in front of the community. he was shot in daylight. he was a former participant. he had just come to the center to access summit plummet services. for an agency like inner-city youth, i think we re the only funded bp agency in the omi. the entire community comes to us because they see us as advocates, as a place that they can go to get help. we are more than willing to provide that assistance but we need some support from the city. we need that investment, or at least referrals. i cannot refer anybody to sunnyvale, hunters point, western addition. i have to come up with travel costs. we need some real assistance and real, tangible opportunities we can provide for these young people. i refuse to close my doors to them, even if i do not have the money. thank you. i a
the third murder happened down the street from us. one of my staff actually went out to the scene to try to revive a young man. she was unsuccessful. he died in front of her and in front of the community. he was shot in daylight. he was a former participant. he had just come to the center to access summit plummet services. for an agency like inner-city youth, i think we re the only funded bp agency in the omi. the entire community comes to us because they see us as advocates, as a place that they can go to get help. we are more than willing to provide that assistance but we need some support from the city. we need that investment, or at least referrals. i cannot refer anybody to sunnyvale, hunters point, western addition. i have to come up with travel costs. we need some real assistance and real, tangible opportunities we can provide for these young people. i refuse to close my doors to them, even if i do not have the money. thank you. i am also with inner-city youth of san
like minds, and educators to all agree that the state of california needs to take a stand against the federal government, because the federal government is what i want to talk about. before i came in here, i read about mr. gary webb, who came up dead in 2004 after he wrote the article and the book, the dark alliance. if we are going to put anything in place, you are going to have to go against the federal government. at one point they were talking about the war on homelessness, the war on communists. this is the federal government that is out of control, and i think we have enough sense to understand the recommendations we have got to be willing to cause a war on the war on drugs. it is not enough time. thank you. good evening, commissioners. i am here to first upon the commissioners for this ground- breaking hearing, and by having this hearing, there is international dialogue looking at the way these human rights impact of war on drugs have gone really important health and
thank you for continuing to make this a priority for the city. we are available to assist. economic justice is that the court. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker. good morning, supervisors. marlenetran, spokesperson for the visitation vallate asian alliance. also, ed district attorney gaston s group. last night, the standard trustco police commission held a meeting in visitation valley. many of the people that attended last night, including chief sur, paul henderson, mary harris, and many others were there. i wanted to thank sharon for working with the closely regarding the issues in visitation valley. actually, for years, we all know that there has been disturdentst sector. we have the highest homicide rates on our youth, mainly because of gun violence. why does it take a terrible tragedy, like the aurora shootings to make people understand all this going on? we need to work vigorously to ban assault weapons, the sale of firearms and ammunition via the i