S.F. supe, London Breed, calls out black community on gun crime

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/S-F-supe-London-Breed-calls-out-black-6028273.php

San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed has a pointed message for the African American community regarding gun crime: “When you know your kids are involved in this violence, let’s turn them in.”

“I know it’s not popular to say,” Breed told the crowd Monday at the King Day observance at Yerba Buena Gardens. But, she said, it’s essential “to save their lives and somebody else’s life.”

Her remarks came just days after four young African American men were gunned down in a stolen car at the corner of Laguna and Page streets, part of the Hayes Valley neighborhood that Breed represents on the board....

Breed, who is African American and grew up in San Francisco’s public housing, speaks from personal experience — one of her brothers, who was drug addicted, is in prison for robbery and other crimes, and her younger sister died of a drug overdose a decade ago.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. It's probably not that popular to say

because calling the cops on your kid often ends up with that kid getting shot dead by said police.

[mackerel]

2. Not a popular thing to say and it's a catch 22 but I think the

material point is that parents/families neet to get involved with their kids & their kids friends, regardless of the community. Like she said, the live you save might be your child's.