After an activist approached Mayor London Breed on the street Wednesday, asking her to comment on a police use-of-force case but also hurling insults at the police union head walking alongside her, the union boss reacted in kind: She flipped off the activist with two middle fingers.
Lt. Tracy McCray, the head of the San Francisco Police Officers Association and a longtime ally of Breed, was walking alongside the mayor on Taraval Street Wednesday when Adroa Anderson, or DoggTown Dro on social media, approached Breed.
In a video, Anderson begins asking Breed about Christiana Porter, the Black 34-year-old mother of five who was walking on Geary Boulevard on July 29 when police approached her and slammed her against a wall. Porter suffered a separated shoulder and a concussion.
About two minutes after he first approaches Breed, who ignores him and eventually drives away, Anderson turns toward McCray and calls her the “Pig Association Officer.”
“Fuck the POA,” he says, with a middle finger up. “Fuck your recall,” he continues, seemingly referring to the 2022 Chesa Boudin recall, which the Police Officers Association supported.
Immediately, McCray responds with two middle fingers up, and begins loudly repeating, “You don’t even know me!”
“You a shill for the Republicans,” Anderson says.
“You don’t know me, son,” McCray says.
The two speak over each other for a few moments before McCray walks away, escorted by Breed’s staffer.
Anderson is a well-known antagonist to Breed and other city officials. During the Taraval walk, he repeatedly calls her security a “pig” and calls McCray a “funky bitch.” Earlier this week, Anderson posted a video in which he interrupts Breed’s photo shoot in Duboce Park, asking her about “staying silent on Palestine” and calling her security guard a “big ol’ hick boy” and “colonizer.” Anderson, who is Black, uses the n-word repeatedly and ends the video with a gunshot sound.
In that video, Breed holds up her phone, filming Anderson back, saying he is disrespecting the people around her.
Other politicians have also found themselves in similar situations with Anderson; Supervisor Shamann Walton last year flipped a middle finger at him during a rally for reparations after Anderson called him a “punk” and a “sucka.”
The interaction on Taraval Street started with Anderson asking about Breed’s lack of response to Porter’s situation during a Black and Brown Mayoral Forum held on Sept. 29. An NAACP Youth Council representative asked candidates about Porter’s situation and what they would do to address excessive police use of force, but Breed did not address the question directly.
“I grew up at a time when tensions were definitely very high between the Western Addition community and the police department, and over the decades,” she said in the forum, according to video of the event. Breed came onstage after the question was asked, and it is unclear if she fully heard it. “I’ve built bridges in order to ensure that there was a relationship between the police and our community.”
But today, she chose not to answer.
“Three white men said apologies to Christiana Porter, and you said nothing,” Anderson says in the video. “They asked you what you going to do to hold the police accountable for what they did to Christiana Porter. And you said nothing. You gave her zero acknowledgment,” Anderson continues, following Breed and her staff as she walks down the sidewalk and into a cafe.
A smirking Breed ignores Anderson, and her bodyguard stands between the mayor and Anderson as he attempts to follow her into Tabita’s Cafe. “Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing right now?” Anderson asks the bodyguard.
“I’m not going to let you get that close,” the bodyguard replies.
“Don’t touch me, don’t touch me,” Anderson says back. “You a pig, you a sucka, you a bitch, and you a busta.”
Breed quickly leaves the cafe and is escorted a half block away to a waiting SUV. Anderson keeps asking about Porter, but Breed ignores him, enters the car, and drives away. McCray is left on the sidewalk, and that’s when Anderson flipped her the middle finger, and she returned the favor.
On Instagram, Porter herself seemingly weighed in on the video: An account belonging to Porter wrote, “I don’t understand what that smirk was for, when my brother @doggtowndro mentioned my injuries … Judgment day doesn’t miss NOBODY, remember that.”
The message was followed by pictures of raised Black fists.
“Tracy’s aggression, immaturity and unprofessionalism is emblematic of SFPD’s treatment of POC and poorer people,” Anderson wrote in a statement to Mission Local. “She is the SFPOA president and this is the model of etiquette she [is] setting for those under her. The implications are scary because SFPD officers are known to be gang-like vindictive on and off duty.”
McCray did not return a request for comment. McCray, in August, unilaterally pushed for the Police Officers Association to endorse Breed, according to several union members; past police union presidents decried the move.
Anderson, for his part, said that after hearing the candidates’ responses in the NAACP forum, he hoped for acknowledgement of Porter’s case.
“It’s common for politicians to be dismissive and ignore questions and concerns that warrant accountability or don’t flatter their image,” he wrote. “It’s also common for their entourage to use diversion tactics to disable the ability for honest discourse among constituents with dissenting narratives. I’m disappointed, but not surprised.”
Other posts of his morn the death of Sinwar. Brother is a major clown
He may be a clown but that does not excuse the juvenile and crass behavior by this official. Hold everyone to account instead of simply picking sides.
Why does the headline imply that McCray initiated this exchange? Very disingenuous.
Would that change the facts of her actions being irresponsible and childish for an elected official being confronted on the street? If someone calls you names do you lower yourself to their level? Why make excuses for that from a police officer association leadership position?
Also, Breed’s indifference to an illegal act of unnecessary police violence by SFPD demonstrates the kind of attitude one has come to expect from her “leadership” thus far. She doesn’t care if the department is lawless and unaccountable as long as she gets her photo op pretending everything is hunky dory.
Zero idea why, in general, such wonderful local reporting site is covering this bum. He’s irrelevant.
Is the POA irrelevant also?
If you’re going to amplify a voice, perhaps you should give some context around the voice you are amplifying. This is not someone I would listen to.
The guy was merely exercising his right to be an asshole in public.
Police are required to activate their body worn cameras if they are involved in an interaction with a citizen that gets heated. How much you wanna bet Tracy didn’t so that? Anyone can, and should, file a complaint with DPA about this.
Tracy is on leave from the SFPD because she is the POA President. She does not have to wear a camera and is not an active duty officer.
Ah, thanks. That POA polo looked like a BDU top. Guess she’s free to be as a big a see you next tuesday as she wants to be with little repercussion. Cool.
Thank you to DoggTown Dro. Keep up the good work.
Long live Palestine.
Dro is a mutt. He hides behind fact he punks and insult those with rules. Uses his size and lack of character to intimidate people and push buttons on others. He should talk about accountability in the hood and should start within his own house b4 he steps in others. His demeanor basically amplifies other peoples judgment on the validity of his words and up bringing.
When flanked by a good with a gun wasn’t enough, did Breed promptly text someone who was not bound by “rules” to intimidate Dro? Judge for yourself:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DBr7hKIyBgp/
Fight the power. Free Palestine.
Campers,
Notice the scars on her knuckles from dragging them on the ground when she walks with Gary Delugnuts and company at the SFPOA ?
They took campaign contributions from the San Jose union that were derived from international drug brokering by their Executive Director of 20 years.
They’re all in the game for Revenge and Violence for Profit.
From the LE side.
Go Niners !!
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