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Luis Gongora killed by SF Police 4/7/16
Luis Gongora, a 45-year-old monolingual in Spanish, homeless man, was killed by San Francisco police on April 7, 2016 who refuse to learn how to disarm a man with a knife without force in a city with many Kung Fu and Karate schools, and Gongora did not have a knife in his hand, but in his belt. After being called by the Homeless Task Force to a homeless encampment, they shot him with bean bags and when he did not respond to English commands to drop the knife, which was not in his hand, they killed him with 7 handgun shots when only one shot to the leg would disable a person. Since the homeless are not likely to file a lawsuit, they killed him. They did not bother to call for a Spanish interpreter in the heart of the Latino Mission District.
For more details on this latest police killing in San Francisco, with video interviews with eyewitnesses, see http://missionlocal.org/2016/04/sfpd-officers-shoot-man-armed-with-knife-in-sf-mission/
The homeless crisis has existed in this country since 1980, when Democrat Pres. Carter was in office, and the funding for public housing has decreased as the money for war has increased under Democrats and Republicans. The latest San Francisco Planning Department of March 2016 states that from 2006 to 2015, net new affordable housing has decreased to 13%. Only 14% of new construction will be affordable to anyone earning less than 120% of median income in San Francisco, that is $85,000. The 80% of Americans who earn less than $88,000 a year are the workingclass, so there is almost NO housing for the LABOR FORCE of San Francisco, which is why almost every restaurant and retail store, as well as banks, the post office, FedEx, Macy’s, Safeway and others have signs begging for workers and the San Francisco public schools have difficulty recruiting teachers who cannot afford to live here. This report may be seen at:
http://sf-planning.org/housing-balance-report
San Francisco has 147,400 millionaires and 18 billionaires. California has 750,000 millionaire households, all of whom should be taxed by the state government, run by a supermajority Democratic Legislature and Governor, and in San Francisco, a Democratic party mayor and Board of Supervisors, to pay to house the homeless now. Instead they pay for police and prisons. In San Francisco, the Democrats give $576 million ANNUALLY to the police who are not social workers but killers. By abolishing the police department, we could easily house the homeless.
The San Francisco Democratic Party’s mayor and police chief now call for tasers, which certainly kill people. They are so cold they have no concept of pain and suffering, much less being homeless and hungry.
In memory of Luis Gongora, change your voter registration today to the only 2 parties that will house the homeless and put an end to the killer police departments, namely Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party so we can finally put an end to the viciously reactionary Democrat-Republican Party.
You can register online at:
https://covr.sos.ca.gov/?language=en-US
For more information, see
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home
http://www.votepsl.org/ (Gloria LaRiva for President) (Be sure to read her serious socialist program.)
and
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.gp.org/
http://www.jill2016.com/ (Jill Stein for President)
The homeless crisis has existed in this country since 1980, when Democrat Pres. Carter was in office, and the funding for public housing has decreased as the money for war has increased under Democrats and Republicans. The latest San Francisco Planning Department of March 2016 states that from 2006 to 2015, net new affordable housing has decreased to 13%. Only 14% of new construction will be affordable to anyone earning less than 120% of median income in San Francisco, that is $85,000. The 80% of Americans who earn less than $88,000 a year are the workingclass, so there is almost NO housing for the LABOR FORCE of San Francisco, which is why almost every restaurant and retail store, as well as banks, the post office, FedEx, Macy’s, Safeway and others have signs begging for workers and the San Francisco public schools have difficulty recruiting teachers who cannot afford to live here. This report may be seen at:
http://sf-planning.org/housing-balance-report
San Francisco has 147,400 millionaires and 18 billionaires. California has 750,000 millionaire households, all of whom should be taxed by the state government, run by a supermajority Democratic Legislature and Governor, and in San Francisco, a Democratic party mayor and Board of Supervisors, to pay to house the homeless now. Instead they pay for police and prisons. In San Francisco, the Democrats give $576 million ANNUALLY to the police who are not social workers but killers. By abolishing the police department, we could easily house the homeless.
The San Francisco Democratic Party’s mayor and police chief now call for tasers, which certainly kill people. They are so cold they have no concept of pain and suffering, much less being homeless and hungry.
In memory of Luis Gongora, change your voter registration today to the only 2 parties that will house the homeless and put an end to the killer police departments, namely Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party so we can finally put an end to the viciously reactionary Democrat-Republican Party.
You can register online at:
https://covr.sos.ca.gov/?language=en-US
For more information, see
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home
http://www.votepsl.org/ (Gloria LaRiva for President) (Be sure to read her serious socialist program.)
and
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.gp.org/
http://www.jill2016.com/ (Jill Stein for President)
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