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"S.F. police, marchers clash on Market Street during Trans March
Marchers and police clashed on Friday night toward the end of the Trans March in the Tenderloin, according to multiple witnesses and footage of the skirmish.
Three witnesses told the Chronicle it all started when police tried to arrest someone spray painting a building near Market and Turk streets. When marchers approached and tried to block the arrest, officers responded with force, according to Nora Long and other witnesses.
People could be heard on video shared with the Chronicle, repeatedly yelling, 'let him go.'
'The cops dragged them and threw them to the ground, and then protesters got in there trying to stop them,' Long told the Chronicle. 'From there, the cops responded with more violence.'
Videos posted to social media showed an officer shove one person to the ground twice, as a crowd approached police on Market Street. Another video captured a person climbing on top of a patrol car, then being dragged to the ground and detained by officers.
The San Francisco Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Thousands of people participated in the Trans March, which began at Dolores Park, continued down Market Street and ended at Turk and Taylor streets, site of a 1966 skirmish between drag queens and police seen as a catalyst for transgender activism. The march is the traditional kickoff to LGBTQ Pride Weekend.
At one point Friday, police carrying some sort of weapon formed a line to slow a portion of a march on Market Street. Elsewhere, police were carrying batons as a crowd swarmed around them, footage shared with the Chronicle shows.
William Warren Sr. and Jenna England said they didn't see the initial confrontation between the police and the person they apparently arrested.
They said that when officers showed up, a group of marchers linked arms to protect the crowd of around 200 protesters. Officers pushed back the crowd as they began to chant: 'Who keeps us safe? We keep us safe.'
Several witnesses described the officers shoving the crowd back, blocking the street for around 20 minutes.
'The police were unnecessarily escalatory against a crowd that was nonviolent,' said march attendee Jenna England. 'It didn’t fit the tone of the march and the occasion. It could be traumatizing for people there — especially when the event is commemorating a protest against police brutality.'
The tension was broken when some members of the Brass Liberation Orchestra showed up to the police line and began playing their sousaphone.
'They saved the day,' said Warren, who added 'this is why we don’t want cops at Pride.'"
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