On Monday December 10th, Supervisor Chris Daly hosted a hearing on the controversial San Francisco gang injunctions. Community members criticized the proposal calling it racist & ineffective. They called on the city to address the root causes of violence not the symptoms.

The hearing room, and the overflow room, and Daly's office were filled at 10am on a Monday morning with people who took time out from their lives to come listen and speak out on the impacts of the injunctions on Bayview, the Mission, and the Fillmore. Public comment lasted until 2:15 in the afternoon.

Attendees heard stories of police misconduct, racial profiling, gentrification, poverty, lack of resources, and failing schools. A woman told a story of the police storming her home on Thanksgiving day, pulling her out of the shower, forcing her to put her hands in the air at gunpoint as they beat her nephew for no crime committed, but having his name on a list of supposed "gang members". A young man came up to the podium with his wife carrying their sleeping 2-year old son, and said that he has no gang affiliations, no criminal record, a family and a full time job, but his name was placed on the list. "How do I get off this list?" he asked the Supervisors.

Photos From The Hearing | Task Force intimidation | The Gang Injunction, Gentrification & Depopulation | Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth (H.O.M.E.Y.)