Stop "Stop and Frisk" From Coming to SF

Speakers include:

Denika Chatman- Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation

Debray "Fly Benzo" Carpenter- Bayview Hunters Point community activist

Shanell Williams- Associated Students president, City College San Francisco

Derron Thweatt- International Socialist Organization

Come to this meeting to talk about how we can build a movement to stop this extension of the New Jim Crow from coming to San Francisco.

No sooner had the Center for Constitutional rights published its damning report of New York's racist Stop and Frisk program than Mayor Lee declared that he wants to bring it to San Francisco. Lee denies that it is a racist policy - but the facts cannot be avoided: 685,724 people were stopped in NYC in 2011, 84% were Black or Latino - although they make up only about 52% of the city's population. 88% of all stops did not result in an arrest or a summons. This daily attack on people of color in New York fueled a march of thousands in NY against this racist onslaught.

The fight-back against Stop and Frisk in San Francisco is building too. Why is Mayor Lee so intent, in his words, to "get the guns"? The new tech boom means more gentrification, increasing rents, and a rise in the cost of living. There has been more than a 50% drop in the city's black population since the 90s. This city is becoming a place for people with money as the rest of us are being forced out. Fighting Stop & Frisk is an important step in declaring that people of color and the working class of San Francisco have a right to live here!