On Saturday, November 6, Tenderloin residents came together to march for a safer neighborhood. With a recent rise in violence in the Tenderloin, residents—particularly seniors and families with children—are feeling unsafe and uncomfortable going about their daily lives in their own neighborhood.
Most recently, on September 29, an 11 year-old girl was attacked while walking to school in the morning. Two weeks later, between 30 and 40 rounds of bullets were fired at Golden Gate & Hyde at 8:30pm. In the building next to the shooting, families were coming home from the park, people were getting in from walking their dogs, adults were visiting their elderly parents. There were at least six gunmen and four people injured. This incident—technically classified as a mass shooting—barely received any attention from the media or the City.
Tenderloin residents and supporters organized Saturday’s march in an effort to draw attention to these incidents (along with several others), and to demand a coordinated, cross-departmental response from the Mayor’s office to ensure the safety of residents and small businesses of the Tenderloin.
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