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SF DA Candidate Loftus Fundraiser Protest with Demands of Justice Now-Chief Suhr A No-show

by Labor Video Project
Suzy Loftus a candidate for San Francisco was protested when she held a fundraising party. She has been endorsed by former San Francisco Police Chief who was involved in covering up police murders and also refusing to act against racist police texting in the department. He was supposed to be at the fundraiser but was a no-show.
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Civil rights and human rights activists protested a fundraiser of San Francisco DA candidate Suzy Loftus.

The benefit held on September 25, 2019, was supposed to have included former San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhur but he was a no-show.

Loftus who is backed by Mayor London Breed, Kamala Harris and Diane Feinstein was president of the Police Commission while Suhr had defended police who murdered many youths including Alex Nieto and also allowed racists texts on police Facebook pages with no timely action taken by his department.

The police department refused to take any timely action to hold these police accountable.

Additional media:
Former SFPD chief Greg Suhr returns to political limelight to campaign for Suzy Loftus
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news-columnists/former-sfpd-chief-returns-to-political-limelight-to-campaign-for-suzy-loftus/

SF Mayor London Breed Along With Police Chief Greg Suhr Endorse Suzy Loftus
Battle Begins for 2019 District Attorney Race
http://www.sfweekly.com/news/battle-begins-for-2019-district-attorney-race/

Stop The SF Police Murders - Community and Labor Rally For Alex Nieto At Federal Trial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cip6X6dZGkA&t=2s

SF Mission Police Station Occupation Lockdown-On Anniversary Of The Death Of Alex Nieto
http://youtu.be/RZwdgZRyBbQ
From Ferguson To SF And The Murder of Alex Nieto With Adriana Camarena
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_c4zXzaGGQ

Alex Nieto Protests
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/ww12-30-14-the-murder-of-alex-nieto-and-ny-protests-police-and-labor

Bay Area Murders And The Case of Alex Nieto
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/10-11-14workweek-ferguson-ba-murders-andy-lopez-alex-nieto

Production of Labor Video Project
http://www.laborvideo.org
§SF Sheriff Supporting Loftus
by Labor Video Project
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SF Sheriff Hennessey is supporting Suzy Loftus
§Suzy Loftus Likes Former SF Police Chief Greg Suhr
by Labor Video Project
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Former SF Police Chief Greg Suhr who was forced to resign after many police murders and a cover-up of racist police texts. Now he is supporting Suzy Loftus.
§SF Mayor London Breed Backing Suzy Loftus
by Labor Video Project
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SF Mayor London Breed is supporting police candidate Suzy Loftus who is also backed by former police chief Greg Suhr.
§Lining Up For Loftus Benefit
by Labor Video Project
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Donors lined up and signed in for Suzy Loftus fundraiser but former SF Police Chief Greg Suhr was a no-show
§Suzy Loftus Did Damage Control For Suhr & Police Charged Protester
by Labor Video Project
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Susy Loftus, while she was president of the Police Commission, helped prevent any accountability of numerous police murders and racist texting.
§Kamala Harris Supporting Suzy Loftus
by Labor Video Project
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Kamala Harris supported 2008 San Francisco policy that reported arrested undocumented juveniles to ICE. She also supported mass incarceration.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-undocumented-juveniles/index.html?fbclid=IwAR37xM6uy1hefz66KbZSokQdhCwU288pJHwZGjJWkQnl9GSA7r_u2Gc76G0
In Her First Race, Kamala Harris Campaigned As Tought On. Crime - And Unseated The Country's Most Progressive Prosecutor
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/07/kamala-harris-san-francisco-district-attorney-crime/?fbclid=IwAR1Iihy-52UfXWluV0RFpxQ6qJ2ehuCSasfOeysB7zwDIIIuKbNZWEy-eEk

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by Suzy Loftus For DA
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Endorsers Of Suzy Loftus

The San Francisco Democratic Party
Governor Gavin Newsom
Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Kamala Harris
U.S. Congresswoman Katie Porter
U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier
San Francisco Mayor London Breed
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf
CA State Senator Scott Wiener
CA State Assemblymember David Chiu
CA State Assemblymember Phil Ting (dual)
Board of Equalization Chair Malia Cohen
Controller Betty Yee
California Treasurer Fiona Ma (#2)
Congressman John Burton
Assessor Carmen Chu
Board of Supervisors President Norman Yee
Supervisor Rafael Mandelman
Supervisor Vallie Brown
Supervisor Catherine Stefani
Supervisor Shamann Walton
Supervisor Ahsha Safaí
Supervisor Gordon Mar
Former Supervisor John Avalos (#2)
Former Supervisor Katy Tang
City College of San Francisco Board Trustee Ivy Lee*
City College of San Francisco Board Trustee Shanell Williams*
City College of San Francisco Board Trustee Thea Selby*
San Francisco Board of Education President Stevon Cook*
San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner Jenny Lam*
BART Board Director Lateefah Simon
BART Board Director Bevan Dufty
Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton
San Francisco Women’s Political Committee
EMILY’s List
#VOTEPROCHOICE
Planned Parenthood Northern California Action Fund
Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club
United Democratic Club
Eastern Neighborhoods Democratic Club
Edwin M. Lee Asian Pacific Democratic Club
Potrero Hill Democratic Club
Westside Democratic Club
The Willie B. Kennedy Democratic Club
Irish American Democratic Club
The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Democratic Women in Action
Sheetmetal Workers Local 104
San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council
Laborers Local 261
Theatrical Stage Employees IATSE Local 16
Sailors Union of the Pacific
Operating Engineers Local 3
Carpenters Local Union No. 22
IBEW Local 6
San Francisco Firefighters Local 798
San Francisco Black Firefighters Association
U.A. Local 483 Sprinkler Fitters
SEIU Local 87
UA Local 38, Plumbers and Pipefitters
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 648
IFPTE Local 21
National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) (#2)
SEIU 1021 (#2)
ILWU Northern California District Council (#2)
Inland Boatman’s Union (#2)
Smart Justice California (dual)
Officers for Justice
Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area
San Francisco Apartment Association
Reverend Amos Brown, NAACP*
Cecil Williams, The Glide Foundation*
Janice Mirikitani, The Glide Foundation*
Shawn Richards, Executive Director, Brothers Against Guns*
Sheryl Davis, Executive Director, Human Rights Commission*
Roberta Achtenberg, Former Supervisor and Clinton Appointee
Debbie Mesloh, President of the Commission on the Status of Women*
Ann O’Leary, Chief of Staff to Governor Gavin Newsom*
Amy Everitt, Vice President of Special Projects, NARAL Pro-Choice California*
Hala Hijazi, Human Rights Commissioner*
Andrea Dew Steele, Founder, Emerge America*
Martha Knutzen, Former Co-Chair, Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club*
Frances Hsieh, DCCC Member
Petra De Jesus, DCCC Member
Tami Bryant, DCCC Member
Jen Low, DCCC Member
David Chan, Chinese Community Activist
Michelle Parker, Parents for Public Schools*
Roma Guy, LGBTQ Activist
Debra Walker, Community Activist
Amy Bacharach, Former SF Community College Board Member
Fran Kipnis, Community Activist
Larry Griffin, Legislative/Political VP Local 21 and Former SF Fire Commissioner*
Kimberly Ellis, Democratic Party Activist
Sunny Schwartz, Criminal Justice Reformer
Retired Judge Mary Morgan
Megan McTiernan, Community Activist
Kimiah Tucker, Community Activist
Andrea Shorter, Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club*
Frank Jordan, Former San Francisco Mayor
Jada Jackson, Community Activist
Dr. Kim-Shree Maufus, Community Leader
James Bell, Reform Activist
Ben McBride, Reform Activist
Eva Peterson, Reform Activist
Kathy Black, Community Leader
Susan Lowenberg, Board President, Jewish Community Center*
Joyce Newstat, Democratic Party Leader
Mary Jung, Former Chair of the Democratic Party*
Jason Chan, Community Leader
Matthew Rothschild, Democratic Party Leader
Francis Tsang, Community Leader
Vinny Eng, Community Leader
Jaynry Mak, Community Leader
Mather Martin, Democratic Party Leader
Darlene Chiu Bryant, Community Leader
Anita Friedman, Community Leader
Tom Redmond, Community Leader
Tippy Mazzucco, Community Leader
Lou Fischer, Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club*
Heidi Sieck, Community Leader
Alix Rosenthal, Democratic Party Leader
Paul Henderson, Community Leader
Sharon Owsley, Community Leader
Damali Taylor, Community Leader
John O’Riordan, Community Leader
Sharon Johnson, Community Leader
Ted Fang, Community Leader
Michelle Ortiz, Community Leader
Kathleen Dowling McDonagh, Community Leader
Mrs. George R. Moscone, Community Leader
Edwin Prather, Community Leader
Rita Semel, Community Leader
David Villa-Lobos, Community Leader
Gail Gilman, Community Leader
Kelly Welsh Dwyer, Community Leader
by Register Peace & Freedom or Green
The Green Party has endorsed Chesa Boudin for district attorney. The district attorney has the power to not only indict killer cops but also to stop corruption, including election fraud, for which the Democrat-Republicans are notorious, and which election fraud they have committed in the June 1997 49er Stadium Swindle election, the defeat of Joel Ventresca, the chair of the Committee to Stop the Giveaway also known as the stadium swindle, in his campaign for City Treasurer in November 1997, and the elections of Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom, Ed Lee and London Breed for mayor. The police, are of course, an integral part of the Democrat-Republican election fraud team. Joel Ventresca is running for mayor in this November 2019 election.

The Democrat-Republican parties’ election fraud goes back at least as far as the 1970s, when the People’s Temple CIA-run scam was used to commit election fraud. See
http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/

The 49er stadium swindle election fraud team of 1997 is the same gang used today. See
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium/

That election fraud gang is guilty of the murder of Dolores Evans, a poll worker, and 5 children, in their Housing Authority home, in a fire which the fire department said could have been stopped. Evans was about to testify as to the election fraud she witnessed in the June 1997 49er Stadium Swindle election in a lawsuit brought against the 49ers. The above website is dedicated to her and the children as you can see on the front page. No one was ever indicted for that election fraud or for the murder of Dolores Evans and the 5 children.

The leading elected endorsers of Loftus for DA are long-time members of the Democrat-Republican parties’ election fraud team, as are some of the non-elected endorsers. They are the ruling capitalist class mouthpieces. The district attorney, by definition in this society, sends poor people to jail. The police are not social workers; they are the armed thugs of the ruling capitalist class to guarantee maximum profits, the primary goal of capitalism. In addition to providing housing, social services and education for decent paying jobs to those who commit street crime, the district attorney can also address the urgent need to stop corruption, election fraud, consumer fraud, landlord fraud and crime, corporate crime and all the other profiteering scams.

Chesa Boudin promises to:
• End mass incarceration. 2/3 of people are back in prison within three years of their release. Breaking the cycle of crime and incarceration is the only way to make us safe.
• Give crime victims a voice in every case. Justice needs to include all of us.
• Eliminate cash bail. It allows dangerous people with money to buy their way out while poor people languish in jail regardless of how weak the evidence is against them.
• Ensure equal enforcement of the law. Effectively prosecute police misconduct. Investigate and prosecute political corruption, corporate crime and landlords who break laws to exploit tenants.
• End racist disparities. They plague every step of our criminal justice system.
• Treat every arrest as an opportunity for intervention. In San Francisco, 75% of all people booked into jail suffer from serious mental illness, drug addiction – or both.
• Focus resources on serious and violent felonies. Two-thirds of the cases that go to trial in San Francisco are misdemeanors – a tremendous waste of resources.
See https://www.chesaboudin.com/

His endorsers listed at https://www.chesaboudin.com/endorsements are:
Organizations
Our Revolution
Real Justice PAC
Smart Justice California
Coleman Action Fund for Children
United Educators of San Francisco (UESF)
San Francisco Community College Teachers (AFT Local 2121)
Service Employees International Union (SEUI Local 1021)
National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME Local 3299)
International Longshore and Warehouse Union - Northern California District Council (ILWU)
Inlandboatmen's Union (IBU)
UNITE HERE Local 2
Evolve California
Justice Teams Network
San Francisco Affordable Housing Alliance
San Francisco Tenants Union
Community Tenants Association (CTA)
San Francisco Rising Action Fund
San Francisco Young Democrats
San Francisco League of Conservation Voters
Our Progressive Future
League of Pissed Off Voters
San Francisco Green Party
San Francisco Berniecrats
Latino Democratic Club
Bernal Heights Democratic Club
Harvey Milk Democratic Club
Progressive Democrats of America - California
Brownie Mary Democratic Club
Democratic Women in Action (ranked)
Elected Leaders
Kim Foxx, Chicago District Attorney
Larry Krasner, Philadelphia District Attorney
Rachael Rollins, Suffolk County District Attorney
Sandra Fewer, District 1 Supervisor
Aaron Peskin, District 3 Supervisor
Gordon Mar, District 4 Supervisor
Hillary Ronen, District 9 Supervisor
Julia Salazar, New York State Senator
David Campos, Chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party
Tom Ammiano, Former California State Assembly-member
Ash Kalra, Member of California State Assembly, 27th District
Brigitte Davila, San Francisco Community College Board of Trustees
Shannell Williams, San Francisco Community College Board of Trustees
Sarah Souza, San Francisco Democratic Party, President of Latino Democratic Club*
Honey Mahogany, San Francisco Democratic Party*
Peter Gallotta, San Francisco Democratic Party*
Petra De Jesus, San Francisco Democratic Party*
Keith Baraka, San Francisco Democratic Party*
Mark Sanchez, Board of Education Commissioner*
Faauuga Moliga, Board of Education Commissioner*
Wendolyn Aragon, Delegate of California Assembly District 19*, Former president Richmond District Democratic Club*
Gloria Berry, Delegate of California Assembly District 17*
Gabriel Medina, Delegate of California Assembly District 19*
Jane Kim, Former District 6 Supervisor
Christina Olague, Former District 5 Supervisor
John Avalos, Former District 11 Supervisor
Jake McGoldrick, Former District 1 Supervisor
Eric Mar, Former District 1 Supervisor
Jeff Brown, Former San Francisco Public Defender
Cyrus Habib, Lieutenant Governor of WA
Gale Brewer, Manhattan Borough President
Jessica Jackson, Mayor of Mill Valley, Co-Founder of #cut50*
Jesse Arreguín, Mayor of Berkeley
John Harabedian, Mayor of Sierra Madre
Sam Hindi, Mayor of Foster City
Gayle McLaughlin, Former Mayor of Richmond

Legal Community
Tiffany Caban, Criminal Justice Reform Leader
Matt Gonzalez, Public Defender, Chief Attorney* and Former District 5 Supervisor
Cindy Elias, San Francisco Police Commissioner*
Margaret Brodkin, Juvenile Probation Commissioner*, former Director of SF Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF)
Ryan Khojasteh, Immigration Rights Commissioner*
Bill Hing, Former Police Commissioner*
Peter Keane, Former Police Commissioner*, SF Ethics Commission Chair*
Vincent Schiraldi, Former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Probation*
Doron Weinberg, Chair of Criminal Justice Advisory Council of the Bar Association of San Francisco*
Emily Jane Goodman, Retired Justice of the New York Supreme Court
Tomar Mason, Retired Judge of the San Francisco Superior Court
Martha Goldin, Retired Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court
Ady Barkan, Attorney, Center of Popular Democracy* and co-founder of Be a Hero PAC
Martin Garbus, Attorney at Law and top First Amendment lawyer–litigation
Walter Riley, Civil Rights Attorney
Arthur Wachtel, Attorney at Law
Jody LeWitter, Attorney at Law
Dennis Riordan, Attorney at Law
Marc Van Der Hout, Attorney at Law
Jon Golinger, Public Interest Attorney
Laura Goldin, Mediator and Attorney
James Bell, Founder and President of the W. Haywood Burns Institute for Fairness and Equity*
Robin Steinberg, Founder and CEO of The Bail Project*
Ellen Barry, Founder of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and MacArthur Fellow*
John Keker, Founder of Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP*
Kate Chatfield, Co-founder, Policy Director of Re:Store Justice*
Barry Scheck, Co-founder of the Innocence Project*
Fania Davis, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth*
Paul Wright, Executive Director of the Human Rights Defense Center*
Janetta Johnson, Executive Director of TGI Justice*
Zachary Norris, Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights*
Gina Clayton Johnson, Executive Director and Founder, Essie Justice Group*
Peter Schey, Executive Director at the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law*
Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children*
Drucilla S. Ramey, Dean Emerita of Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, former Executive Director and General Counsel of the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF), and former Executive Director of the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ)*
Brett Dignam, Vice Dean of Experiential Education and Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia Law School*
Professor James Forman, Yale Law School, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Locking up Our Own*
Professor Judith Resnik, Yale Law School*
Professor Dennis Curtis, Yale Law School*
Professor Michael Wald, Stanford Law School*
Professor Emeritus Michael Tigar, Duke Law School*
Professor Lara Bazelon, University of San Francisco Law School*
Professor Rory Little, University of California, Hastings Law*
Sharon Meadows, Professor Emeritus, University of San Francisco Law School*
Dr. Monisha Bajaj, Professor of International & Multicultural Education, University of San Francisco
Professor Maitreya Badami, Political Science and Criminal Justice Professor at Chico State*
Community Leaders
Angela Davis, Civil Rights Icon and Activist
Patrisse Cullors, Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement
Shaun King, Co-Founder of Real Justice PAC and The North Star
Danny Glover, Actor and District 5 Community Leader
Ibram X. Kendi, Author and Historian, Anti-Racism
Stuart Schuffman, Broke-Ass Stuart
Michael Franti, Musician
David Talbot, Author, Season of the Witch
Rebecca Solnit, Author
Joe Talbot, Director, Last Black Man in San Francisco
Dean Preston, Tenants Together*
Cat Brooks, Activist, playwright, poet and Former candidate for Oakland Mayor
Phelicia Jones, Justice For Mario Woods Coalition*
Father Richard Smith, Vicar of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church*
Reverend Joanna Lawrence Shenk, Associate Pastor, First Mennonite Church of San Francisco*
Medea Benjamin, Founder of Code Pink*
David E. Smith, MD, Founder of Haight Ashbury Free Clinics*
Cathy Reisenwitz, Editor-in-Chief of Sex and the State
Amy Beinhart, President Bernal Heights Democratic Club*
Reid Chalker, President San Francisco for Democracy*
Pamela Price, Former Candidate for Alameda County District Attorney
Lito Sandoval, Former San Francisco Latino Democratic Club President*
Kevin Ortiz, Vice President of San Francisco Latino Democratic Club*
Vivian Imperiale, Past President, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) -- California and NAMI SF*
Mitchell Omberberg, Affordable Housing Alliance*
Jose Bernal, San Francisco Reentry Council Member*
Jordan Davis, SRO Task Force Member, Transgender Advocate*
Bahlam Vigil, San Francisco Youth Commissioner*
Matthew Lewis, California Young Democrats Bay Area Regional Director*
Raj Jayadev, Silicon Valley DeBug
Starchild, Sex Worker Activist
Shahid Buttar, Community Leader
Tony Kelly, Community Leader
Jon Jacobo, Community Leader Martha Hawthorne, Community Leader & SEIU 1021 Organizer*
Peter Gabel, Community Leader
Ronald Colthirst, Community Leader
Eric Guthertz, Principal Mission High School*

It will be an uphill struggle for Boudin to win as off-year elections are always low-voter turnout primarily property owner elections, and if the mayor’s race has an incumbent, there is not a lot of excitement regarding the election. However, the needs of the workingclass who are always adversely affected by the police are greater than ever, so it is urgent that the workingclass voters be mobilized to vote.

To confirm your commitment to serious change, you should also change your voter registration to Peace & Freedom or Green, the only 2 parties that support the positions that Chesa Boudin stands for. You can change your voter registration online at:
https://registertovote.ca.gov/
For more information, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
http://www.cagreens.org/


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