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S.F. police union head flips off activist in heated exchange

After an activist approached Mayor London Breed on the street Wednesday, asking her to comment on a San Francisco woman who was slammed against the wall by police officers after jaywalking in July, the head of the city’s police union flipped off the activist with two middle fingers. Lt. Tracy McCray, the head of the San Francisco Police Officers Association and a longtime ally of Breed, was walking alongside the mayor on Taraval Street Wednesday when Adroa Anderson, aka DoggTown Dro on social media, approached Breed.In a video, Anderson begins asking Breed about Christiana Porter, the Black 34-year-old mother of five who was walking on Geary Boulevard on July 29 when police approached her and slammed her against a wall. Porter suffered a separated shoulder and a concussion.About two minutes after he first approaches Breed, who ignores him and eventually drives […]

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Safaí, the labor candidate, working to shore up union backing

Mission Local is publishing campaign dispatches for each of the major contenders in the mayor’s race, alternating among candidates weekly until November. This week: Ahsha Safaí. Read earlier dispatches here.On Friday morning, Ahsha Safaí arrived at the San Francisco Labor Council’s pre-Labor Day breakfast at the InterContinental Hotel downtown at around 10 a.m. Safaí, who was eight years into a labor career when he first ran for public office in 2016 for District 11 supervisor, sat down next to Olga Miranda, the president of SEIU Local 87 and his former boss. Safaí knows Miranda well: He was the political director for Local 87, which represents janitors, from 2008 to 2016, working on signing up new members in non-unionized workplaces, organizing strikes, and pressuring politicians to support the union’s various campaigns, like involving custodians in talks when the city asked residents and downtown […]

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