San Francisco supervisors are to vote on a proposal to discourage 911 calls that they say expose people of color to dangerous run-ins with police.
Fed up with white people calling 911 about people of color selling water bottles, barbecuing or otherwise going about their lives, San Francisco supervisors are set to approve new hate-crime legislation giving the targets of those calls the right to sue the caller.
The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the Caution Against Racial and Exploitative Non-Emergencies Act, also known as the CAREN proposal in a nod to theused to describe a specific type of middle-aged white woman who exhibits behavior that stems from privilege, such as using the police to target people of color.
All 11 supervisors have signed on to the legislation, guaranteeing its passage, despite criticism by some that the proposal’s acronym is sexist and unnecessarily divisive. The proposal would give people the right to sue offending 911 callers in civil court.who was stenciling “Black Lives Matter” in front of his own home in June. The couple later called police.
“They tried to cast it as a criminal scene,” he said. “It was me calmly applying chalk, not spray paint, not in the middle of the night but very deliberately. The only thing that was missing was a Pinot Grigio.”
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