![]() “I want to apologize to the Latino community for what I said and how I said it,” Breed wrote in her statement. Updated to include drought zones while tracking water shortage status of your area, plus reservoir levels and a list of restrictions for the Bay Area’s largest water districts. She was pleased to see the mayor’s comments Wednesday.īreed’s office provided the apology upon request and said it came as the result of conversations with community leaders. He said the Tenderloin has beenĬrisis for years, with officials failing to address root causes, and “to all of a sudden blame Hondureños, it’s not right.”ĭugan-Cuadra suggested Breed apologize. government propping up dictators and American corporations taking over land and He told her about contributing causes of Central American migration, including the U.S. Roberto Hernandez, a yearslong Mission resident and CEO of nonprofit CANA, also talked to the mayor twice this week. “Her comments definitely hurt the Hondureño population, but they hurt the greater Latino community,” she added.ĭugan-Cuadra talked directly with Breed on Tuesday and said the mayor was very receptive. So that’s what was hurtful,” Dugan-Cuadra said. “If you want to talk about Hondureños, for every potential young person caught up in that web, there are 10 working their butts off as essential workers, running businesses in our city, moving our goods, putting food on our tables. She said people selling drugs “are not all migrants and not all Hondureños, and we know that.” Lariza Dugan-Cuadra, executive director of San Francisco nonprofit Central American Resource Center of Northern California, was returning from a trip to Honduras when Breed made her comments.ĭugan-Cuadra traveled there to meet with local officials under a new government to talk about consular services for migrants and attend a congress of Black Central American women.ĭugan-Cuadra was disappointed by Breed’s words, which she said lacked a depth of context and echoed of racial profiling. “We are calling upon London Breed to retract her remarks, apologize and prioritize a Latino agenda, where our community stakeholders have a seat in addressing the systemic racism that has plagued the Latino community from San Francisco,” the club wrote. ![]() The club called her generalization appalling “and indicates a dangerous line of thinking from the Mayor regarding the Latino community.” The San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club’s People’s Slate condemned the mayor’s comments as “xenophobic and racist” Latino groups and political observers pushed back on Breed’s comments online, while others addressed concerns directly with her. Make up as many as half of all sellers, were trafficked. Their approach has sparked pushback and comes after former District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s more sympathetic comments that many Hondurans selling drugs in San Francisco, who The comments come as Breed and her newly appointed district attorney take an aggressive stance toward drug dealing and use, citing the overdose crisis and quality of life concerns in the Tenderloin. “And it’s nothing racial profile about this - we all know it, it’s the reality, it’s what you see, it’s what’s out there.” “There are unfortunately a lot of people who come from a particular country, who come from Honduras, and a lot of people who are dealing drugs happen to be of that ethnicity, and when a lot of the arrests have been made for people breaking the law, you have the public defender’s office and staff from the public defender’s office who are basically accusing and using the law to say you’re racial profiling,” Breed said. The attorneys said research showed all 53 people the officer arrested for drug offenses in the Tenderloin over a two-year period were Latino, but only two out of 43 detained in those same operations, but not arrested, were Latino. ![]() ![]() She was referring to the Public Defender’s Office accusing a police officer last month of violating law by racially profiling and targeting Latinos for arrests in the Tenderloin, as the Many people dealing drugs come from HondurasĪnd took issue with the Public Defender’s Office accusation that police have racially profiled Latinos in the Tenderloin. “Why do people who deal drugs have more rights than people who try to get up and go to work every day and take their children to school?” Breed said to applause among the live audience.Īs the conversation continued, Breed said ![]()
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