San Francisco Police Chief Derrick Lew offered new information about arrests, use of force and surveillance during San Francisco’s Pride Weekend on Wednesday.
More than a dozen transgender residents and their allies packed San Francisco’s Police Commission meeting Wednesday night to demand accountability for what they described as a violent, militarized police response to two events in late June. That included the June 26 Trans March, which ended in arrests near Turk and Taylor streets, blocks from the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria uprising; and an unpermitted block party the next night in the South of Market neighborhood, known as the Stud Alley party.
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Video of both spread widely online, leading District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder to file a demanding the department, Mayor Daniel Lurie and other officials explain what happened.
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