SFPD faces Twitter backlash after 'tackling' tent-filled street in Tenderloin By Amy Graff , SFGATE Updated 4:41 pm PDT, Friday, April 27, 2018 54 years this month, the Compton’s Cafeteria riots sparked a revolutionAs the legend goes, on a “hot August night” in 1966, officers with the San Francisco Police Department entered Gene Compton’s cafeteria at 101 Taylor Street. San Francisco Police Department Official Social Media Accounts Only those who have also experienced the show will understand what an absolute spectacle it is on a nightly basis.Surely the amount of public outrage and police inaction, combined with the seriousness of the problem, not to mention the ease at which 10 drug dealers can be found on any corner in the tenderloin, make this a continued cause for embarrassment, not PR. Anyone with information or video regarding the shooting is asked to call the SFPD tip line at (415) 575-4444. Established in 2017, Transgender District is the first such officially recognized neighborhood in the world...something that probably wouldn’t have happened if trans folks hadn’t repeatedly protested against the police at the restaurant, chanting, picketing, smashing windows, all while being beaten and shoved into SFPD vehicles.The demonstrations were the “catalyst for gay liberation,” Sa’id says, and even before protests for racial equity and against abusive police officers swept the nation, the district had big plans for the 54th anniversary of the Compton’s event. 1-415-575-4444. For information regarding on-going criminal behavior occurring in your community.
“We’d planned a series of events for all month, leading up to this weekend,” Sa’id says. Learn more > Text a Tip. Bring a book, bring a date, bring a broken bike lock, best of all most services are free. 26 reviews of SFPD - Tenderloin Station "This little storefront is a quiet, cool respite from the hubbub of daily life in the 'loin. SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco Police on Wednesday arrested a suspect in a fatal shooting earlier that morning in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Surely the amount of public outrage and police inaction, combined with the seriousness of the problem, not to mention the ease at which 10 drug dealers can be found on any corner in the tenderloin, make this a continued cause for embarrassment, not PR. San Francisco, California, USA.Press J to jump to the feed. Instead, socially-distanced community members painted a trans-flag-colored mural reading “Black trans lives matter” in front of where Compton’s once stood, the District’s way to “raise visibility for black trans people across the globe,” Sa’id says. As the legend goes, on a “hot August night” in 1966, officers with the San Francisco Police Department entered Gene Compton’s cafeteria at 101 Taylor Street. The SFPD Twitter account for the Tenderloin station posted about a shooting on the 200 block of Levenworth Street at about 3:40 p.m. On a recent Thursday afternoon all lights were out to conserve the cool. The … Enter TIP411 (847411) in the “To” field and the keyword “SFPD” in the text field, followed by the message.Learn more > We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Then I see perfectly healthy young men selling crack to dying junkies so they can dress like some generic gangster trash.This logic astounds me unless you are being sarcastic?Yes they should be locking up drug dealers openly selling heroin on the streets of the city. - So in one morning two officers managed to find 10 drug dealers... suggesting there's probably 100x that number. That’s how the riot began.Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman’s 2005 documentary That so much of the Compton’s Cafeteria riots’ story, the first such civil uprising of trans and gay folks in the country, involves “standing up to the police” and smashed cafeteria windows meant that “for years, the community felt like they had to sugarcoat it,” San Francisco trans advocate Aria Sa’id tells Eater SF. “Over the years, when Pride comes around, there’s always been this fear of promoting fighting against the police.”In the wake of the protests about the deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and far too many others at the hands of law enforcement officials — as well as this week’s well-publicized police shooting of Jacob Blake — that fear has lessened, allowing folks like Sa’id to be even more candid than before about how police brutality has affected the LGBTQ community, which has “faced a particular kind of marginalization” that echoes what “Black people are still facing today.”Sa’id’s the co-founder and executive director of the Compton’s Transgender District, a neighborhood in SoMa and the Tenderloin that encompasses where Compton’s once stood (part of a chain, it shuttered in 1972).
“We could have involved many people with a national presence,” Sa’id says, but it was important to us to keep the focus on San Francisco queer culture and history.” Expect appearances How a Riot at a Tenderloin Cafeteria Kicked Off the LGBTQ Rights Movement The fact that it's not is disturbing.If you follow their Twitter, it pretty much is an everyday occurrence.
Then, on Friday, August 28, from 5–8 p.m. there will be a “virtual party” over Zoom to commemorate the riots, with performances from trans and gay creatives, many of whom have been out of work in the pandemic. This was a common stop for the cops, as owners of the business often called the police to roust the late-night patrons of the restaurant, many of them transgender sex workers grabbing a bite or coffee during their shift.
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