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on our allies. the reason why i am here is there was a young man called david henderson and deshawn marmon, who was mentioned today. they both played for the brown bombers. once a year, i throw an event where i feed over 1000 young people, parents, whatever. i remember these young men. i knew them when they were very young. i saw them when they played high school football. i do not know if you honored david henderson, but you all do know that deshawn marmon, whose mother is here, who i do not
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know very well, but she knows of me, and that is all that matters, and i did express my sympathies to hurt. deshawn came to see his friend here for the funeral. that is how he got entangled in this airline fiasco of sorts. but there is a point of want to make, and that is san mateo county and how when they call those police how they react with people of color. we have to take some action on that. thank you very much. [applause] president chiu: thank you. we do have a role in the board chamber of not expressing either applause or opposition to statements made by speakers, to show respect to our speakers and move the conversation along
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>> my name is eugene gordon, jr. this speculation is defamation educated for togetherness. so says capitalist, imperialists, fascist diplomacy. the naturally, sapient ethnicity of largely state-based means of exchange, capital currency for commodities that creates a class system divide of intent to psychological use, meaning gender and ethnicity. they are both dictated to education of the financial cost. the basic need -- evading public ownership of means of production. between 2002 and 2011, in san francisco a man called out, "i hate you believing i hate you."
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a man speaking at that anyone wearing a skirt -- not a full "of his end-word. -- quote of his n-word. as the state deconstructs, fascism is in the usa. 1776 until 2011. this reading given two minutes. then there is international ballot and, where a historical educated intelligence of humanity collectively and cooperatively constructs evaluation, creativity as public ownership of means of production. it is to fortify its trust in evolution. constitutional means of labour exchange, labor time, and medical disability, to define
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basic needs will labor as union skills organized and nature sensitivities are respected. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon. thank you so much for allowing me to express upon the resolution on each of your laps. deshawn is a family member. with the situation at hand, i plead with each and every one of you that you not define your decision upon the saggy pants issue and look beyond that. one should not be defined by what they drive, what they wear. if you go to any corporate organizations such as apple, one does not have to come in wearing a suit or tie.
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it is not enough to define what is inside one's head and how the act. we have watched the media coverage and it is plain in seeing his rights were violated. as proudly as you stand and sit behind that flag of the united states of america, i know all of you were sworn in to uphold the resolution that supervisor cohen has put in front of you, to send out a message it is not just african-americans that have done this. each and everyone of you have family members. i think you to ask a question before you vote on this resolution. how would you feel if it was one of the members of your family, knowing how they are? you have seen them since they were a child, growing up. he is a proud representative of not just the bayview hunters point area, of the city of san francisco. if the lord is willing, bless him to go on to pursue his career not just academically but
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athletically. do not wait to ask him to come to speak at each and every one of their districts to help raise money. please stand up and do the right thing now. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon, supervisors. it is a fantastic day in san francisco, california. aren't we glad we live in america, where we have the freedom of choice? i am dr. annette shelton, third vice president of the san francisco branch naacp, and 83- year-old organization in the city and county of san francisco. i rise to ask you to support the resolution that has been submitted to you by supervisor cohen that surrounds the issue of the mr. marmon. your voice is important to our
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community. as the speaker before me said, the saggy pants issue is picked up by other nationalities of youth. but this has nothing to do with saggy pants in the underlying situation. it is about justice for all. that is justice for all. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i would like to take this time to think supervisor -- thank supervisor cohen for your support, for your endless time that you have put into this situation with this. by the way, the whole family -- our family is related to the
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family. also, espinosa jackson is related as well. so you never know whose family member you are doing these types of things to. as i reflect back on the homeless issue, i have seen so many people who may not fit right. they do not necessarily come with a belt. they have a homeless individual. they have pants donated to them and they sag. are we going to arrest them as well? this has gone too far. this racism is so prevalent in the place i thought was a melting pot. supervisor doris ward told me when i was a lot younger -- she said black does not melt.
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i was saying to her they do. she told me. she said when you go anyplace, you walk in the room and you are any other nationality and are not black, they do not know if you are italian, if you are russian. but if you walk in the room and a black, they see you are black. that is what happened at u.s. airways. deshawn is highly educated. he went on that plane and they saw he was black. not only was he black, but thank you so much for your time. i have something for you later. thank you so much. president chiu: thank you. [applause] >> i wanted some assistance. i have just two minutes. i just wanted to play. when the mayor came to the bayview and supervisor cohen was
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there and mom and jackson was there, a lot of city officials can there. thank you, supervisor cohen. you're doing a wonderful job. ♪ ♪ ♪ ain't no fooling around you've got the look there have been so many things that help us down -- held us down now it looks like things are finally coming around. i know we've got a long way to go where we end up, i don't know we are putting ourselves together
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could we get a little help? that is it? all right. next speaker. >> my name is devrat carpenter and i am here to speak for deshawn marmon and the black race and the bayview community. i feel we are underrepresented and discriminated against, and it is prevalent. even at city hall, you can see it. i picked up these. it is about divorce destinations in san francisco. they have east is west. they have jewish heritage. they have city on the edge. i don't know what that is about. they have latino roots. they have pride. but what about the african?
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what about us? what about the native americans? the whole mix -- the olmecs, the aztecs? this discrimination happens every day. i was arrested for observing police activity, which is not illegal. my charges are still pending. i have a few other cases i got from dealing with the sf pd, the crooked sfpd. but all i do is good. i do not sell drugs. i do not kill people. but all the killers get away while they come arrest me and rough me up, bring 15, 16 cars to me, put tickets on my car at midnight. the and know what i mean? it is just parked in front of my house. there is killing going on and real stuff going on.
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they have focused a lot of attention on the bayview because of all the killings and the violence. they are not addressing that. they are messing with the drunks on the corner and the people without transfers on the bus. if you don't have 75 cents for the bus, how are you going to come up with $75 for a ticket? [applause] ethnic pride, you know? ethnic pride. president chiu: thank you. >> hello. my name is theresa cooper. i do a lot of healing work in the community. one of the things i remember our last mayor said is he wanted to find the murderers in this town. there were a series of events what went on with that mayor. what i have heard is that murderers are down, but gang
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murders are up. i have been concerned about hearing about african american man, 20 years old -- i just heard it on the bus on my way here. a 19-year-old african american man murdered, a shootout in richmond, about the same age group. when are people going to wake up? murder is not healing. it really is not. i am really concerned about it. i am not sure if the mayor really let us down or if somebody has really taken it on. i do have issues with the police department. i appreciate them. but i really am paying attention to jeff hidachi. i was hoping he would be here
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today. i would like to talk to him. anybody that has stood up and made statements to support our constitutional rights should be highly commended. the police state is backed by a lot -- police state is backed by a lot of money. there was a shoot-out where this man was killed. he robbed five banks. i thought i was there to pray for somebody that got hurt. actually, the police just shot him. a lot of fbi stuff going on. i also want to support -- president chiu: thank you very much. >> good afternoon, president and board of supervisors. i am a native san franciscan and also a resident of district 10. i am here to talk about two
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issues. i think the community has done a great job as far as supporting supervisor cohen as she has worked tirelessly to make sure the resolution was presented to you today. i support everything that has been said by people who look like me, but recognize this is not a local but is also an international event that has taken place. moving on to issue two, i know some supervisors have worked really hard with the san francisco youth commission as it relates to the free municipal passes. i have asked some questions and i am not too sure where we are in that process, but there are a lot of young people need to go to school and who have relied on those free muni bus passes. i am urging you to continue to do that hard work. i am volunteering with the youth
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commission to try to move them forward and figure of the process. there are students who need to go to school who were going to school because they had these passes. all of our youth have different issues in different districts. i ask that you really dig down into your child like habits, things you like to do, and make sure the people we are standing up for, the people as the knowledge jackson has stood up for, and so on. they have spoken for us and it is our responsibility to speak for the youth of tomorrow. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is at donaldson. i am with the osiris coalition. i speak in support of the resolution for deshawn marmon and would like to personally thank supervisor cohen for her
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work. as an african-american male, i know my own personal challenges with the criminal justice system, and understand intimately what it takes to recover from that. we have to protect korean people, in particular those who are doing the right thing. i encourage all of you to support this resolution on behalf of deshawn. let us protect all of our youth, keeping them all on the right track. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> count the number of the beast. i would like to talk about words that are good numbers in the bible in the sermon, this speech. i plan on wearing my may 21 and of the world judgment day is guaranteed shirt until it wore out. but for some strange reason all
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my radios are missing and my family ready of t-shirts are missing. they disappeared, i guess. harold camping -- there is no preacher, whether he is john macarthur, and he is probably my favorite, peter ruckman -- i could mention a whole bunch of them that i listened to. every kristin seized in a glass darkly. but the you know who got used? harold camping. does that mean everything he teaches is true? it does not. but jesus said before i come back the gospel is going to be preached everywhere as a witness, than the end will come. that is what jesus said. count the number of the beast. it is the number of a man. there are three numbers you can arrive at that are the same by counting. 55 is the sum of one through 10. 66 is the sum of one to 11.
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if you counted 36, you get 666. that is the last time that appears. when you counted 36. i know we have gone over this again, but it began but it bears repeating, because repetition is a very good teacher. there have been 3670-year cycle since the destruction of the temple in 523 b.c. until 1996. the sixth trumpet sounded on november 11, 2001, which is exactly 66.666 months after that, 2008 after that. >> ladies and gentlemen, i speak to you today on behalf of
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seniors and people with disabilities. but first let me speak about the seniors and people with disabilities. during the years that these were able to work, they make -- they made their contributions to help keep this country what it happens to be today. now that they are not able to work anymore, on my way to the various corners, i see these people sleeping on the ground. they are going into garbage cans and eating food. we're supposed to be living in one of the greatest countries in the world.
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this is america. nobody has any right to be like this. if you do not protect the youth , as they should be treated and protected, after we have gone from this, who do you expect to carry on? i must say to caesar over the body of caesar, hold judgment. as with the speech of brutus, i make it. >> good evening. my name is donna boyle.
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i am the mother of deshawn marmon. i want to thank my district supervisor for all your support from the time this stuff erupted. i am asking that you all take a parent's stand. we have all told our children at some point to do things, and when they step away from us they tend to do just the opposite of what we said. i told him to pull his pants up. and he did. but they apparently went right back to the upper part of his but, where the underwear was showing. there were not blow his buttocks. -- they were not below his buttocks. what did my son do wrong?
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i still have not found that out from u.s. airways, other than not getting up when the pilots said get up. his reasoning was, "i did not do anything." i asked him why. "i paid like everybody else. i am like everybody else." the pilot replied, "know you are not. -- no, you are not." i am trying to find out where my son did wrong. there are charges on him. i cannot understand how they are going to charge him. the police jumped on him and hurt him. boarding the plane, trespassing -- he had a ticket. indecent exposure -- it became a double standard.
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a cross dresser could get on and my son could not. president chiu: thank you very much. [applause] next speaker. >> hello, everyone. i was one of the chief organizers today for the youth rally. i hope you all may have looked of the window. some of the supervisors came. we definitely appreciate it. i am here to support the resolution that supervisor cohen just introduce to you all. by no means are we speaking against the cross dresser in favor of deshawn. they both should have been able to board the plane. you cannot invent the rules for different passengers. we in the progressive city of san francisco need to take a stand and say clear his name.
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let him go on with his life. come together like the san francisco community. we brought a lot of youth from bayview hunters point. you would've thought it was a stop the violence march. recognize that. it is very hard to get used. we had sought of market years. we had western addition news. we had youth from the trail hills -- petrero hills, something on non of with -- something unknown with turf wars. i so appreciate you, commissioner, and everything you did to make today success. i truly appreciate that. i am not one to get on your nerves. i think you all. you'll have these kind of constituents that probably get you like that. but thank you parian
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