San Francisco Board of Supervisor President Aaron Peskin is seen exasperated in a partial image from a recorded video during the Sept. 26 board meeting. (San Francisco Government TV)
Twelve minutes before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a final report with recommendations for African American reparations on Tuesday, a cluster bomb of phone calls during public comments hit the chamber with vitriolic racist and antisemitic rants.
It was the third such incident in the Bay Area this month, following a series of hate-filled comments at Sonoma County Board of Supervisors meetings on Sept. 12 and Sept. 19. That county’s board responded by switching back to pre-pandemic rules, when public comment could only be delivered in-person or through email. Now, it looks like San Francisco’s board is on track to do the same.
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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.
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Twelve minutes before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a final report with recommendations for African American reparations on Tuesday, a cluster bomb of phone calls during public comments hit the chamber with vitriolic racist and antisemitic rants.
It was the third such incident in the Bay Area this month, following a series of hate-filled comments at Sonoma County Board of Supervisors meetings on Sept. 12 and Sept. 19. That county’s board responded by switching back to pre-pandemic rules, when public comment could only be delivered in-person or through email. Now, it looks like San Francisco’s board is on track to do the same.
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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.
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