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The community outrage over the San Francisco Police Department's response to an unsanctioned skateboarding event over the weekend continues.

“There’s a lot of interest in suing and challenging this police misconduct to prevent something like this from happening again,” said Rachel Lederman, senior counsel at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.

An excerpt from article by KQUED. Read the full story here. San Francisco police arrested over a hundred people in the city’s Mission District Saturday night…

Rachel Lederman, a long-time civil rights attorney now with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, has spoken to some two dozen parents, teenagers, and young adults, she said, gathering information about the Saturday arrests for a possible civil lawsuit.