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After Pride arrests, Trans March organizers meet with Mayor Lurie to call for change 31%
By Annelise Bowers20%
7/14/2026, 1:29:10 AM
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Trans March organizers met with Mayor Daniel Lurie Monday morning to present a letter of demands regarding two incidents of policing and the arrest of five people at their event during Pride weekend.
They described the mayor’s office as receptive, though no official commitments have been issued.
March co-organizer Niko Storment said that “tensions were palpable” during the meeting at City Hall, but “it seemed like they were very positively wanting to move forward.”
Storment made their statements in front of a crowd of around 50 to 100 supporters that gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall after the meeting took place.
“What we are tasked with now is to keep them accountable,” said Storment, “because nothing has been promised yet.”
Organizers published demands last week, asking the district attorney’s office to drop charges against four Trans March participants who were arrested on Friday, June 26, and to replace police officers at future Trans Marches with “civilian traffic management.”
In the week since the letter was published, it accumulated signatures from more than 1,500 people and 70 organizations, including the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and the People’s March.
In a statement, the mayor’s office said that it organized the meeting with the intention of starting “a series of conversations that will take us towards safety and visibility for our transgender community in San Francisco.”
What Lurie’s office did propose, according to Storment, was increased cultural sensitivity training for police officers.
But Storment said the mayor’s staffers also told them those trainings are no longer required for members of the San Francisco Police Department, which Storment described as a “red flag to everyone in the room.”
The letter and today’s meeting came in response to the police presence and arrests at the Trans March on Friday, June 26.
SFPD officers arrested five people as the march neared its end at Turk and Taylor streets, the site of the historic Compton’s Cafeteria riot.
Police said that those arrested were suspected of covering security cameras with paint and spray-painting several statues along the route of the march, and that one of them “assaulted and sprayed paint on a person.”
Four of those arrested were charged with offenses that include felony vandalism, resisting arrest, and battery of a police officer, according to the district attorney’s office.
Meanwhile, organizers said, a car drove through the crowd of marchers at one point, without apparently being cited by police.
According to organizers, several cars attempted to drive into the crowd during the march, which they allege officers “failed to address.”
At the end of the march, dozens of officers in full riot gear intercepted the crowd to arrest those accused of vandalism, pepper spraying the crowd at one point and “throwing community members to the ground,” according to the letter of demands.
The letter does not mention the 20 or so arrests that happened the following evening, at the so-called “Stud Alley” party in SoMa.
Video footage shows a line of officers in tactical gear and armed with batons shoving people out of the alley.
The 20 people who were arrested were released with citations for “unlawful assembly” and “obstructing or delaying a peace officer,” and have an upcoming court date.
The arrests at both events were very much on the minds of some of those gathered outside City Hall.
In the weeks since Pride, dozens of organizers and people who attended Pride weekend have been pushing the city to explain the level of police presence and arrests at both events this year, protesting outside the courthouse on July 2 and filling the seats at last Wednesday’s police commission meeting.
“It felt like being in a war zone,” said one person in the crowd, of the feeling of being at the Trans March during the arrests.
Today, they said, surrounded once again by a crowd of chanting protestors, the feeling had shifted.
“It’s energizing.
It’s exciting,” they said.
The mood of the crowd was, overall, upbeat.
People cheered and hugged, pulling out their phones to sign the letter.
They marked their calendars for the next meeting of Trans March supporters.
“When we come back for Trans March 2027, we will come back with more joy and more power and more people than ever before,” Renee Coe, a Bay Area attorney, told the crowd.
“This is how movements are,” Storment told the crowd.
“We’re going to keep showing up every day and we’re going to keep putting pressure on this, and we’re going to make sure that our voices are heard.”
“The amount of people that came here today tells us how uncontroversial these demands are,” Storment said.
“It’s really not that hard.
The things that we’re asking for are reasonable.
It’s kind of hard not to do them.”
The show of support from those gathered outside mattered, said Storment.
During the meeting at the mayor’s office, Storment described the conversation as “getting off track” when, all of a sudden, the sound of chanting from the crowd outside filtered in through the window.
“Whose streets?”
came the call.
“Our streets!”
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