SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Hundreds of protesters calling for the firing of San Francisco’s police chief converged on San Francisco’s city hall, interrupting the supervising board’s weekly meeting with pleas and demands for action.
The crowd Tuesday was led by five people in wheelchairs who are on the 13th day of a hunger strike to protest two recent shooting deaths of minorities by police and racist and homophobic texting scandals involving officers.
The hunger strikers led the crowd from outside the police station in the Mission District, where they have been camping. They demanded to see the Mayor Ed Lee but were told the he was not at city hall.
They requested the board pass emergency legislation. Supervisors listened and sometimes spoke back, saying they didn’t have the power to fire Police Chief Greg Shur.
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