{"id":29168,"date":"2023-10-19T12:43:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T19:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=29168"},"modified":"2023-10-19T22:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T05:15:55","slug":"sf-supervisors-pass-ban-on-security-guards-drawing-their-guns-over-property-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/sf-supervisors-pass-ban-on-security-guards-drawing-their-guns-over-property-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"[This post was removed from our Occupy_SF Facebook page] SF Supervisors Pass Ban on Security Guards Drawing Their Guns Over Property Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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17 OCTOBER 2023\/SF NEWS<\/a>\/JOE KUKURA<\/a> (SFist.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the wake of April\u2019s fatal Banko Brown shooting over an alleged Walgreens shoplifting incident, the SF Board of Supervisors passed a ban on security guards drawing guns for property crimes. But it wouldn\u2019t be a shock if Mayor Breed vetoed the measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oddly, the late September tweet where Twitter\/X owner Elon Musk declared that SF Supervisor Dean Preston \u201cshould go to prison<\/a>\u201d was in response to a\u00a0Mission Local article<\/a>\u00a0reporting that a Board of Supervisors committee had voted to recommend approving a\u00a0ban on retail security guards drawing guns<\/a>\u00a0on property crime suspects. (That Musk dustup led to\u00a0Preston quitting Twitter<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But on a more serious note, Preston proposed this\u00a0restriction on security guards pulling guns\u00a0<\/a>in the aftermath of the April\u00a0shooting and killing of Banko Brown<\/a>, a unarmed 24-year-old Black trans man who\u2019d allegedly shoplifted\u00a0$15 worth of candy<\/a>. That shooting inspired\u00a0weeks of protests<\/a>, a\u00a0state investigation<\/a>, and some\u00a0PR headaches or DA Brooke Jenkins<\/a>\u00a0who decided to\u00a0not charge the security guard<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preston\u2019s proposal hoped to prevent anyone else from being shot and killed over minor shoplifting incidents. And in a Tuesday vote, the SF Board of Supervisors approved Preston\u2019s ban in a unanimous vote, with no discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am grateful that the Board has taken this important step forward in ensuring that the people of San Francisco will be placed above property,\u201d Preston said in a statement his office sent after the vote. \u201cWe should be doing everything in our power to prevent something like the killing of Banko Brown from happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Private security guards are regulated under the SF Police Code<\/a>. That code currently says they can\u2019t draw their firearms, except when there\u2019s \u201can actual and specific threat to person and\/or property.\u201d Preston\u2019s just-approved proposal<\/a> deletes any reference to property, so the guards could only draw their firearms when there\u2019s a threat to a human being. Hence, no shooting people merely for suspected shoplifting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the board approved the proposal unanimously, this could still be one to watch. Mayor Breed is on her tough-on-crime kick<\/a>, so she could theoretically veto this bill, in hopes of fending off her other moderate challengers<\/a> in the 2024 mayoral election. Of course, the supervisors could simply override that veto<\/a>, and considering they passed this with an 11-0 vote, they have the majority to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the veto would allow Breed to grandstand about giving law enforcement \u201cthe tools and support they need<\/a>\u201d in  the lead-up to the election. And it would put Supervisor Ahsha Safai on record as voting not once but twice to limit the actions of security guards. Safai, of course, is one of those other moderate challengers<\/a> in the 2024 mayoral election<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related: <\/strong>San Francisco May Ban Security Guards From Drawing Guns Over Property Crime [SFist]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image: Joe Kukura, SFist<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

17 OCTOBER 2023\/SF NEWS\/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) In the wake of April\u2019s fatal Banko Brown shooting over an alleged Walgreens shoplifting incident, the SF Board of Supervisors passed a ban on security guards drawing guns for property crimes. But it wouldn\u2019t be a shock if Mayor Breed vetoed the measure. Oddly,… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29218,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29168\/revisions\/29218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}