Hours before DA Brooke Jenkins set Banko Brown's killer free, family and supporters rallied at the shut Walgreens, demanding answers.
Xavier Davenport, Banko Brown's mentor and friend, speaking at Monday's rally demanding justice for the slain 24-year-old. Photo by Griffin Jones, taken May 1, 2023
Brown, an organizer who was born and raised in the Mission and Fillmore, was killed by a single gunshot on Thursday, April 27, at 6:30 p.m., by Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony, 33, a Walgreens security guard. The location at 825 Market St. has been shut down since the incident. Video alluded to by Jenkins when announcing her charging decision has not yet been obtained by Mission Local. In this
“What [he] did did not justify [him] to be killed,” said Brown’s stepmother, Barbara Brown, in tears. “If [he] was hungry, it did not justify for [him] to be murdered. This was a senseless death.” A majority of the block is fenced off for street work, but supporters and family have made do with tributes, hanging posters and placing candles along the chain link fence facing the store, which leaves only a few feet of passage for passersby on the busy street. During the rally, Young Women’s Freedom Center members stood guard at either end of the passage, allowing only attendees through.
In her statement, Breed said: “Transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming San Franciscans are 18 times more likely to experience homelessness compared to the general population, and we know that the rates are even higher for our minority trans communities.”
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