San Francisco Mayor London Breed had a heated exchange with a self-described Democratic Socialist over the city's new police crackdown on open-air drug markets.
, which he called the city's"only safe consumption site," and asked her to commit to moving forward on plans for a Tenderloin wellness hub by the end of the month.
"They want to see safety. They want to see police. They want to see a change in their neighborhood," Breed said."They don't want any more services to continue to dominate their community and then provide an additional layer of problems that have continuously plagued the Tenderloin community."When Preston had a chance to respond, he brought up racial equity and suggested Breed's new police-heavy policies would cause"even more overdose deaths.
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