Background
In the Month of April 2023, there were a couple of incidents that involved potential shoplifters and store security guards.
Outline
- San Francisco, CA
- Walgreens
- Banko Brown
- Walgreens
Incidents
San Francisco, CA
Banko Brown
KPIX
- San Francisco DA says Walgreens security guard won’t be charged in Banko Brown slaying
- Videos
- Video #1
Channel:- KPIX | CBS NEWS BAY AREA
Date Published:- 2023-May-1st
Date Added:- 2023-May-5th
Link
- Video #1
- Videos
San Francisco Standard
Julia Arroyo, Young Women’s Freedom Center Co-Executive Director
- Board of Supervisors Meeting
- Profile
- Young Women’s Freedom Center Co-Executive Director Julia Arroyo details her relationship with Banko Brown at a Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday.
- Videos
- Video #1
Channel:- San Francisco Standard
Date Published:- 2023-May-1st
Date Added:- 2023-May-5th
Link
- Video #1
- Profile
Bio
San Francisco, CA
Banko Brown
- Impacted
- Banko Brown
- Xavier Davenport ( Mentor )
- Banko Brown
- Non-Profit
- Young Women’s Freedom Center
- Julia Arroyo, the co-executive director at Young Women’s Freedom Center
- Young Women’s Freedom Center
- Law Enforcement
- San Francisco
- Police
- Bill Scott ( Police Chief )
- District Attorney
- Brooke Jenkins ( DA )
- Police
- San Francisco
Vocals
San Francisco, CA
Banko Brown
Employment
Young Women’s Freedom Center
Julia Arroyo, the co-executive director at Young Women’s Freedom Center
Brown was a volunteer organizer at a nonprofit called the Young Women’s Freedom Center, which advocates for transgender youth and young women.
Julia Arroyo, the co-executive director of the center, described Brown as a generous person who put the needs of others over his own.
Arroyo said Brown was not a dangerous or aggressive person. He worked and went to school but still struggled to make ends meet and live in San Francisco.
“His last week of his life he said […] ‘I’m tired; I’m sleeping outside. I’m tired; I’m not myself right now,’”
Arroyo said at a Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday. “And still he brought people into the center.”
Law Enforcement
San Francisco Police Department ( SFPD )
Bill Scott, San Francisco Police Department ( SFPD )
Police Chief Bill Scott told the Police Commission on Wednesday.
San Francisco police cleared up some of the details surrounding the deadly shooting of a suspected shoplifter by a security guard outside a Walgreens in a case that spurred widespread outrage.
Banko Brown, 24, was unarmed when the security guard shot and killed him outside the drugstore near Market and Fourth streets last Thursday, Police Chief Bill Scott told the Police Commission on Wednesday.
An altercation broke out when the security guard, Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony, tried to stop Brown for shoplifting, the chief said. Anthony, 33, was still inside the store when Brown stepped outside and turned toward him.
Brown then allegedly spit on the security guard and raised his arm toward him before Anthony drew his gun and fired, Scott said.
The shooting is placing police at odds with prosecutors.
While police booked Anthony on suspicion of murder last Friday, prosecutors soon after declined to charge him, and he was released.
Scott told The Standard last Friday that his department decided to arrest Anthony on suspicion of murder because security guards “have to use force appropriately within the law,” even if they have a firearms license.
“If that’s not the case, regardless of whether you are a security guard or police officer or not, you are subject to that,” Scott said.
Scott said homicide investigators will continue to probe the shooting, including by looking further into Anthony’s background.
District Attorney Office – San Francisco
Brooke Jenkins, District Attorney
However, Jenkins said Monday that she would not be able to prove a murder case against Anthony to a jury based on witness statements, statements from Anthony and video footage of the incident.
“The evidence clearly shows that the suspect believed he was in mortal danger and acted in self-defense,” Jenkins said in a statement.
Timeline
San Francisco, CA
Banko Brown
- District Attorney
- Charges against security guard dropped
Last Words
Often, a story escapes the narrator.
This one blindsided me.
I am touched by Julia Arroyo’s wetting.
She fessed:-
- I am not this person
- I was not always this person
- I grew up on the streets of San Francisco
- I slept underneath the bridges
- I slept on BART trains
- I have had to sell myself as a child to be able to have resources
- He cried
- He said you are going to make me cry
- I said you cry right here
- Cause you can’t always cry outside
- You got to take of yourself first
- He said, “I am not myself“
- Explaining to the mothers, explaining to the stepmother, explaining to the birth mother, explaining to the father
- Banko is not this person
- This nastiness they are saying online
- I am trying to do better by all these young people, please
Dedication
Happy Mother’s Day Mum.
And, Happy Mother’s Day to all the mums out there.
Referenced Work
- The San Francisco Standard
- Walgreens Killing: Here’s What We Know About Banko Brown’s Shooting by a Security Guard
Written by Michael Barba
Published May 04, 2023 • 1:17pm
Link
- Walgreens Killing: Here’s What We Know About Banko Brown’s Shooting by a Security Guard
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