Anjru Jaezon de Leon, back, comforted his grandmother, Amelia Bulauan, during her emotional comments about the death of her son, Melvin Bulauan, at a Board of Supervisors committee hearing November 6.
Photo: Eliot Faine
A San Francisco Board of Supervisors panel heard emotional testimony from the family of a man who died outside a Tenderloin reentry facility as well as from the center’s operators. The building at the center of the controversy was the site of a 1966 riot sparked by trans people and drag queens fighting police harassment.
After more than three hours of testimony, questions, and public comment, District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin and had called for the hearing, asked for it to be continued to a later date. The Government Audit and Oversight C

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