for mary atchison we know that we can do better, for mary free mon we know that we can do better. for my good friend, (inaudible) we know that we can do better. and so i want to thank all of you for being here tonight. for helping to shine a light, for being part of our city of san francisco, and we are the city that revolutionized what love is about. from the summer of love, to marriage equality and i truly believe that some day, we are going to lead the revolution and we are going to lead the revolution to make sure that it is not just 44 months or 44 years, we will have a time period when no one is murdered again for domestic violence. thank you, and god bless. [ applause ] >> thank you so much, i understand that claire's daughter is here, please join us, please join your grandmother. i just want to acknowledge a couple of other folks sharon johnson was the first executive director of our department on the status of women, she is here with us tonight. [ applause ] and so to present our final closing healing song, please help me welcome emma jean foster, a member of the (inaudib

although i wish that i did not have to stand here, and thank you for allowing us to commemorate, mary atchison. i love mary for many reasons, but i think that what i loved about her most was her strength, and her smile, and that lighted up any room that she would go into. and her commitment to having fun. and every day of her life. mary was a resident, and a bike messenger and the dot com boom and grew other flowers and others n a plot in vernal hill, and heights. and she worked downtown, at wiki company, and she has a degree from san francisco state, and in zoology, and we shared being big fans of san francisco giants and the san francisco 49ers and she was actually, a very avid fan of both. mary was found dead in her home on august 26th and the cause of death is blunt force trauma. and according to her neighbors, her boyfriend of 12 years, who she lived with, she would hear her boyfriend slamming her against the walls during arguments. mary did not confide in this and although i loved her i never knew that this was happening a group of us attend every court hearing, for joules, and he has be