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Over 1,000 Bay Area March in Solidarity with Asians Against Hate and Violence

The protest began in the San Francisco’s Castro District at 17th and Castro streets, where LGBTQ leaders spoke out against the racist attacks. Mayor Breed said, We’re going to bring something back something similar to the Guardian Angels (in the 1980s).

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March 26, 2021

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Over 1,000 people rallied in San Francisco last weekend to stand in solidarity with the Asian community against racist hate and violence. Photo courtesy of SF Mayor's Press Office.

More than 1,000 people demonstrated in San Francisco this past weekend, marching down Market Street to express outrage and call for united community action against Anti-Asian hate and violence.

Speaking at the rally, SF Mayor London Breed pledged citywide solidarity with the Asian community.

The protest began in the San Francisco’s Castro District at 17^th and Castro streets, where LGBTQ leaders spoke out against the racist attacks. Mayor Breed said, We’re going to bring something back something similar to the Guardian Angels (in the 1980s).

“In the neighborhoods, where we have our seniors, we’re going to protect them and look out for them,” she said.

In an interview, Mayor Breed said, “These attacks are devastating- because this community has already suffered enough, and the worst part about is that that they are elderly people, in pretty much every single instance,” she said.

Breed said that in the next few days, she will announce major new programs “to keep the community safe.”

While the city will increase police response in affected neighborhoods, she said, “We all have to take responsibility.”

“We have to hold the perpetrators of these crimes accountable for what they have done,” she said.

The rally in San Francisco was one of the largest of a number of protests across the country over the weekend.

In Atlanta, where six people died in a recent shooting at massage businesses, hundreds gathered near the Georgia Capitol to demand justice for the victims and condemned racism, xenophobia and misogyny.

In Chicago, about 300 people held a rally, and in New York City, hundreds marched from Times Square to Chinatown.

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The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of June 4-10, 2025

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Remembering George Floyd

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing.

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Mural showing the portrait of George Floyd in Mauerpark in Berlin. To the left of the portrait the lettering "I can't Breathe" was added, on the right side the three hashtags #GeorgeFloyd, #Icantbreathe and #Sayhisname. The mural was completed by Eme Street Art (facebook name) / Eme Free Thinker (signature) on 29 May 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)

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“The president’s been very clear he has no intentions of pardoning Derek Chauvin, and it’s not a request that we’re looking at,” confirms a senior staffer at the Trump White House. That White House response results from public hope, including from a close Trump ally, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. The timing of Greene’s hopes coincides with the Justice Department’s recent decision to end oversight of local police accused of abuse. It also falls on the fifth anniversary of the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25th. The death sparked national and worldwide outrage and became a transitional moment politically and culturally, although the outcry for laws on police accountability failed.

The death forced then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to focus on deadly police force and accountability. His efforts while president to pass the George Floyd Justice in policing act failed. The death of George Floyd also put a spotlight on the Black community, forcing then-candidate Biden to choose a Black woman running mate. Kamala Harris ultimately became vice president of the United States alongside Joe Biden. Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison prosecuted the cases against the officers involved in the death of Floyd. He remembers,” Trump was in office when George Floyd was killed, and I would blame Trump for creating a negative environment for police-community relations. Remember, it was him who said when the looting starts, the shooting starts, it was him who got rid of all the consent decrees that were in place by the Obama administration.”

In 2025, Police-involved civilian deaths are up by “about 100 to about 11 hundred,” according to Ellison. Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African-American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing. During those minutes on the ground, Floyd cried out for his late mother several times. Police subdued Floyd for an alleged counterfeit $20 bill.