A group of protestors gathered in San Francisco's Mission District Thursday evening to mourn the lives of people who have been killed by police and call for change.
About 100 people came to the steps of Mission High School to attend a vigil, light candles and leave flowers in honor of those lives lost and march to the Mission police station.
Aditi Joshi, organizer with Defund SFPD Now, says just this week we saw the deaths of Daunte Wright and the fatal shooting of Roger Allen in Daly City.
“All of this happening during the Derek Chauvin trial proves to us that we’re never going to get justice in the current system," she said.
"So I think now is the time for us to be calling to defund, dismantle and abolish the police and the whole prison industrial complex, and to bring the community together to share in their grief.”
Joshi says the city could be doing a lot more to defund the police and rethink public safety.