"How many people think that Trump left us a virus?" @chesaboudin asks the crowd. He's trying to explain, but there's a heckler with a bullhorn shouting over him.
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Boudin looks to be amending a previous statement on signature gatherers. "The folks who are gathering signatures for the recall are people who desperately need work. I have a tremendous amount of empathy for those folks. ... Talk to the folks who are considering signing."
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One audience member is confronting Boudin about the city's drug crisis. "When it comes to the war on drugs, it didn't work. ... What we need is a dramatic expansion" in mental health services, harm reduction & safe consumption sites, he says.
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"This is a public health crisis,"
@chesaboudin adds. "I want it to be easier to get help than it is to get high." Check out our inside look into the city's drug crisis for more on this issue:https://heresaymedia.org/recovering-heroin-addict-san-francisco-failing-drug-users/ …Show this thread -
Now we've moved into decarceration. Boudin believes it's not just a criminal justice issue but a public health issue. "75% of people who are taken to SF county jail are drug-addicted, mentally ill or both. My role is to promote public safety," he says.
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He cites a case he dealt with during the pandemic of moving a young drug-addicted woman to space where she could safely deliver her child. "It doesn't make us safer for a young woman with a substance abuse problem and a high-risk pregnancy to be in jail during a pandemic."
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"I wish our city could work through things together than attacking each other quite so much," says Yekutiel in closing. Yekutiel hopes that discussions like this can be a starting point to respectively and civically work through city issues. And that's all for tonight, folks.
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"Mazel tov!" says Yekutiel. "There's nothing more concrete than having a child... to think bold," ~