Hundreds
support San
Francisco hunger strikers protesting police violence
SAN
Francisco —*Amid national concern about
police ******rs' use of force, five activists have been starving themselves for the last two weeks outside of Mission
police Station, vowing **t to eat until controversial
police Chief Greg Suhr resigns.*
Drained of nutrition and barely able to stand, the
hunger strikers on Tuesday were pushed in wheelchairs through the streets of San
Francisco to city hall, where they called for Suhr's removal.Hundreds joined them in support, holding signs decrying
police brutality and chanting "** justice, ** peace. ** racist police."*
The call for Suhr’s resignation — or firing — follows the controversial police
killings of Mario Woods, Alex Nieto, Amilcar Lopez, and most recently, a homeless man named Luis Gongora. Earlier this month, the uncovering of*
racist text messages in which a San
Francisco police ******r referred to African-Americans as "nigs," Mexicans as "beaners" and Indians as "disgusting" further strained the fraught relationship between community members and police, culminating in the
hunger strike. *
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