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Vol. 80/No. 6 February 15, 2016
Marchers in SF protest cop killing of Mario Woods
Militant/Carole Lesnick
SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of protesters marched through downtown here
Jan. 30 demanding “Justice for Mario Woods,” a 26-year-old Black man
shot and killed by city police Dec. 2. Five cops — Winson Soto, Antonio
Santos, Charles August, Nicholas Cuevas and Scott Phillips — surrounded
Woods, who had been reported to cops as looking like a person involved
in an earlier stabbing, and then shot him more than 15 times.
Woods family attorney John Burris made public a video of the killing.
Protesters carried signs reading, “Mario is our son” and “Fire Chief
Suhr.” Greg Suhr is head of the city police.
Police gripping batons blocked marchers from approaching Super Bowl
City, a fan village for the upcoming NFL championship football game.
A hundred protesters eluded the cordon and set up a vigil inside the
fenced-off area. This is “an important message for the world to see,”
Rhiannon Samson, who had come to visit Super Bowl City, told the San
Francisco Gate.
— CAROLE LESNICK
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