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San Francisco to vote on proposal about racist 911 calls

by Janie Har
| October 19, 2020 10:28 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fed up with white people calling 911 about people of color selling water bottles, barbecuing or otherwise going about with life, San Francisco supervisors are set to approve new hate crime legislation giving the targets of those calls the ability to sue the caller.

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