Community outrage over D.A.'s decision to not charge guard in Banko Brown's death
Balloon release in San Francisco, honoring the man killed by a Walgreens security guard tonight. Community leaders coming together to hold a town hall meeting denouncing the DA's decision not to press charges. I think it's time for us to stand up for a back row Brown's family, for those that are fighting for justice. We want a fear and impartial process. Outrage among friends, family and community members in the death of Banco Brown. Good evening everyone, I'm Mike Mebeck. And I'm Heather Holmes.
Tonight a town hall meeting took place to discuss what critics call an unfair decision by San Francisco's district attorney, declining to press charges in this case. New attend tonight KTV's Jana Katsuyama live outside the Walgreens there on Market Street where that shooting took place. Jana. Heather and Mike, we talked with some people who said that they are family members of Banco Brown and tonight they gathered here and did a balloon release writing his name on some of those balloons. We also went to a town hall meeting in the Mission District and many people tonight are saying that they are feeling pain and they want their voices heard. Cradling a red balloon, Terry Brown wrote a message on it joining family and friends on Market Street in San Francisco in memory of his brother, Banco Brown, a young black trans man who was shot and killed in the doorway of the Walgreens store. The security guard wasn't in a horror.
He had control of the whole situation. Banco's family and friends say they believe surveillance video showing the scuffle and then the shooting of Banco by an armed Walgreens security guard shows a very different picture than the guard acting in self defense, which district attorney Brooke Jenkins described. That person wanted to get out the store. That person wanted to go. That person dropped the stuff and left. Banco's friend, Juju Pikes Prince says it was painful for her to watch her friend being shot. I watched the whole thing and I got barely, I had to watch it twice because I couldn't watch the first time.
So it seemed like somebody that was trying to get away from an issue. Tuesday evening, Pikes Prince joined a panel at a town hall hosted by the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club in the Mission District. The panel included black trans men, attorneys and activists led by Honey McCogney. They say they're outraged that the district attorney has said there's not enough evidence in her opinion to press charges after seeing the video. I do not believe that at a place where I got my COVID booster, someone got shot. A security guard there shot the kid. Peter Callaway, an attorney in the San Francisco Public Defender's office says he does not agree with Jenkins legal assessment.
Did he have to shoot Banco Brown, right? And if they answer no, then it's not legal self defense. The force used has to be reasonable and necessary to prevent the imminent risk of death or great bodily injury. The film said the shooting also points to the pain felt by black trans men in the city. We are a group of people that is not safe. This city needs trainings around black trans people and how to serve them. Hell, the city needs trainings around serving black people, period. Back here on Market Street in San Francisco, the family and friends who are here say that they are planning to have another protest tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in front of the district attorney's office.
Heather. Right, and Jana Concey. I'm a live force there in the city tonight. Thank you.
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