Chief Scott put on spot at press conference on anti-Black incidents
Christiana Porter, the alleged jaywalker slammed to a wall by San Francisco police officer Josh McFall in late July, said she continues to live in fear due to the incident. “There is no way I should have been brutalized the way I was for merely walking across the street — in the crosswalk,” said Porter, a 34 year-old Black mother of five at a Thursday morning press conference held at the Third Baptist Church.Porter today said she feared that her four daughters might be targeted while walking to school or that her non-verbal son might be unable to communicate if faced with a similar situation. “It shouldn’t have to take someone being shot, someone dying, for an outcry.”The press conference drew government officials and community members to denounce a series of anti-Black incidents in San Francisco. Other community members shared stories […]
