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Hey San Francisco residents who voted for DA Brooke Jenkins, here's what you got: An office that thinks that people should spend 14 years in prison for closing down the GG Bridge for four hours, and tried to prohibit them from using the word "genocide" when they explain why they did so. She also wanted to prohibit people from wearing keffiyehs in the courtroom.
There is a long history of protest on the Golden Gate Bridge.
In 1967: San Francisco topless star Yvonne D’Angers, dubbed the Persian Lamb, chained herself to the Golden Gate Bridge to protest her long-threatened deportation to Iran.
1989: Activists blocked the Golden Gate Bridge during rush hour to protest the government's refusal to act in the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
November 23, 1996: Actor Woody Harrelson and eight other demonstrators were arrested for climbing onto the Golden Gate Bridge main cable and south tower with a banner protesting the logging of ancient redwoods in Humboldt County. The protest tied up traffic for hours.
May 26, 2002: An anti-war protest, organized by the All People's Coalition, on the Golden Gate Bridge led to the arrest of 30 demonstrators, causing a traffic backup several miles long.
January 1, 2007: CHP took 10 war protesters into custody at the Golden Gate Bridge after a three-hour standoff that backed up traffic. The confrontation began at noon when members of the women's peace organization CodePink prepared to walk across the bridge as a vigil to remember the 3,000 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq.
April 7, 2008: Three pro-Tibet protesters climbed the Golden Gate Bridge vertical suspension cables at a location near the south tower at about 10:30 am and unfurled two banners intended to draw attention to Chinese human rights violations in Tibet.
June 6, 2020: Black Lives Matter protest draws over 15,000 people to the Golden Gate Bridge and garnered much media attention. The event was permitted and traffic was only blocked for a short time.
None of these events garnered charges of similar severity. This is a Brooke Jenkins innovation.
