A protester was arrested for hurling a brick Tuesday during San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s chaotic outdoor hearing centered on cracking down on homeless open air drug markets.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin had decided to move the mayor’s regular monthly meeting with the board down the block from City Hall to the United Nations Plaza, which has grown rampant with drug dealing and stolen good sales.
“We can’t keep speaking out of both sides of our mouth,” Breed said in a fiery five-minute speech. “On the one hand we want change, and we want to hold people accountable, and on the other hand, we’re willing to let people get away with murder.”
“We have to make the kinds of decisions that are going to allow for people to get the help and support they need, but to not allow things to continue in the way that they have for far too long,” the mayor said. “It’s time for a change.”
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Peskin started to grill the mayor on a request he had outlined in a letter earlier in the day to establish an Emergency Operations Center for multiple agencies to coordinate response and shut down open air drug dealing sites like the one in the plaza in the next 90 days.
Heckling and chants of “no more cops” from the large crowd were so loud that Peskin moved the meeting back to City Hall before the mayor could answer.
At one point, a protester rushed up toward where city officials were standing and threw a brick. The brick struck a female Galileo High School student and member of the junior ROTC troop who helped raise the American flag at the start of the meeting. Supervisors had reportedly already left U.N. Plaza.
The minor student was not seriously injured, and law enforcement soon detained the protester on the ground.
The San Francisco Police Department later identified the suspect as 26-year-old Elysia Katet, the San Francisco…
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