San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton proposed legislation to address the racial discrimination resulting from emergency 911 calls and will call for a commitment from the city to redirect funds from the San Francisco Police Dept. to the Black community in an upcoming board meeting.
Incidents of 911 calls on doing daily activities continue to happen, most recently as June 13 when a white couple in Pacific Heights called police on a Filipino man for stenciling “Black Lives Matter” in chalk on his own residence and accused him of defacing someone else’s property despite the fact that it was his home.
“Supervisor Walton also introduced a resolution urging the board of supervisors to commit to redirect resources from the San Francisco Police Dept. back into the Black community.
“On June 4, Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Walton announced plans to prioritize the redirection of resources from the San Francisco Police Dept. to support the Black community in the upcoming budget.”
“We have been pushing for reparations for Black people here in San Francisco for decades and we have continued to see Black organizations inequitably disregarded and disproportionately left out of vital resources,” said Walton.
