San Francisco joins the Bay Area in protesting police brutality, as historically massive protests continue to consume the nation.

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve a settlement of $400k to a whistleblower who leaked that former D.A. George Gascon had carried guns on commercial flights and alleged that this lead to significant retaliation.

San Francisco political and faith leaders, and actor Jaime Foxx, led a peaceful interfaith protest against police brutality at City Hall Monday.

The Rules committee rejected Mayor Breed’s appointees to the Police Commission Monday, with members Gordon Mar and Hillary Ronen calling for ‘strong reformers’ to be nominated to the oversight body.

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin joins a coalition of current and former California district attorneys calling on the State Bar to prohibit political contributions from police unions by elected prosecutors- citing conflict of interest- in the wake of the continued national protests against police brutality. 

As a January video showing an SFPD officer kneeling on the neck of 19-year-old Kajon Busby recirculates in the wake of continued protest of police brutality, SF Public Defender Mano Raju calls on the SFPD to explicitly ban the tactic.

CBS provides a rundown on the legislation District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston intends to submit that will indefinitely extend the ordinance making it illegal for landlords to evict people who might have had to stop paying rent due to COVID-19, while SF Curbed provides a rundown on what to do obtain rent relief and potentially avoid eviction today.

On a 6-1 vote, the Small Business Commission rejected ‘right to re-employment’ legislation by Supervisor Gordon Mar, which would require local small businesses to hire back workers laid off at their current rate without having to apply again- stating that it was an unworkable burden as businesses struggle to recover from the impacts of COVID-19. Mar is planning to bring the legislation to the full Board in June, despite the rejection, with amendments. He currently has 6 votes at the Board for the proposal.

While San Francisco continues relaxing restrictions on businesses, including offices, allowing them to reopen with conditions beginning June 15, many large employers, including Salesforce, Wells Fargo, and Google, are taking a slower approach to reopening offices.

As protests against police brutality continued nationwide, local leaders celebrated the beginning of Pride Month, with many noting the genesis of the movement as similar protests and riots against targeted police brutality as are being protested today.

As the region slowly reopens, traffic is returning to the Bay Area.

Protests continued Sunday in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area over the killing of George Floyd and continued systemic police violence towards black people.

After widespread reports of looting, Mayor London Breed mandated an 8pm curfew in San Francisco, and some who continued to protest at City Hall after 8pm were arrested, as the gathering was declared an unlawful assembly.

Looting continued in the greater Bay Area, including in suburban malls in Walnut Creek, San Leandro, and Pleasanton.

Chief Bill Scott compared the current unrest as similar to his time as an LAPD officer during the 1992 LA riots in the wake of the beating of Rodney King, and has asked people to stay home.

Amid continuing protests and reports of widespread looting, Mayor Breed has extended the 8pm curfew mandated this weekend until further notice and asked for additional officers from other agencies to help keep the peace. SFPD has stated that it can cite and arrest people for violating the 8pm-5am curfew.

An interfaith demonstration in protest of the killing of George Floyd and continued police violence towards black and brown people is planned today at City Hall at 11am.

Former Board of Education Member and Executive Director of the Commission on the Status of Women Emily Murase has thrown her hat into the ring in the race to become District 7 Supervisor.

The Chronicle provides rundowns into the reasons why community reactions and widespread national protests over the killing of George Floyd are different than in response to numerous past instances of unarmed black men and women being killed by the police, and how the Bay Area may be missing an important teachable moment on race.

The looting of local businesses has upended plans for many to reopen as businesses weigh the possibilities of relaxing shelter in place rules with the ongoing protests citywide. Meanwhile, those businesses and offices that plan to open struggle with the needs for workplace coronavirus testing.

Bay Area rental prices have plummeted over the past month, anywhere from 9%-15%, as telecommuting mandated by coronavirus concerns has led to many tech workers leaving the area for more affordable markets.