Published by The Davis Vanguard
Three organizations and 17 “Super Rich” wealthy donors—including five billionaires—were singled out at a rally here this week as the primary contributors supporting Prop. E, which opponents of the measure charge benefits San Francisco police and politicians, not the public.
Speakers at the rally, according to the statement, described “harrowing first-hand accounts of encounters with SFPD.”
“While being followed by police the person who I was with had a seizure. The police officers saw him fall to the ground, but instead of calling an ambulance, they arrested me due to (for) violating my probation conditions, by being in the wrong neighborhood. I was released from detention the next day because I hadn’t actually violated probation but it was so traumatizing for me to watch the police not care about his safety,” said Lucero Herrera, Statewide Program Director, Young Women’s Freedom Center.
Herrera added, “And while SFPD is really good at arresting Black and Brown people for no reason, it’s actually really bad at solving serious crimes. My own mother went missing and was found decomposing in Sonoma County and there has been no justice for her, or for my family.”