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. * Read more...