Schoolboy Racially Profiled, Detained By SFPD, Lawsuit To Come

San Francisco CA

08 April, 2022

5:26 PM

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By Eleni Balakrishnan, Mission Local April 6, 2022 The San Francisco Police Department has been accused of racial profiling and illegal detention in a March incident in which an officer grabbed a 13-year-old Black student as the child was stepping out of his private school and walking to his tutor's car. Civil rights attorney John Burris, who yesterday filed a claim against the city regarding the incident, denounced the actions of the officer today during a press conference. "There was no legitimate basis to stop this young man — only that he was Black, he was African American. That in and of itself was not enough," Burris said today. "It requires probable cause or at least reasonable suspicion." To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.