The country is reeling the past few days since the release of the videos of Tyre Nichols being beaten to death by Memphis, TN police.

Tyre Nichols is being buried in Memphis on Wednesday. Here in San Francisco, we will be Kneeling for Tyre and praying for his family.

Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community Founder, Phelicia Jones, said – “Without strong language and strong consequences for SFPD conducting pretext stops, it is inevitable that San Francisco will one day soon see its own Tyre Nichols incident.”

Police violence and racism in San Francisco is the “progressive” city’s best kept secret. In fact, San Francisco scored lower than Memphis due to its racist, violent, and unjust policing by the “Police Scorecard” project.

Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community (WDBC) has been calling out racial injustice in policing by the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) for 8 years. Since 2021, WDBC has demanded an end to low level traffic stops by police (i.e. for minor [non-criminal, non-dangerous] matters such as a tail light or turn signal).

According to SFPD’s own data, A Black San Franciscan is
-stopped at a rate 7 times that of a white San Franciscan- i.e. racial profiling;
-arrested at a rate 10 times that of a white San Franciscan;
-subject to use of force at a rate some 15 times that of a white San Franciscan.

These disparities have not improved from 2016 to the present.

There are numerous precedents – around the nation, jurisdictions are putting an end (or exploring putting an end) to routine, low-level stops by police, including: Virginia, Minnesota, Philadelphia, PA, Los Angeles, CA, and Berkeley, CA - to name just a few.

Join us Wednesday in Kneeling for Tyre and demanding justice for Tyre and for all those targeted by police. Join us in the movement to demand real change and the end to low level stops by police in San Francisco – and across the country.

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