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SF's truth and justice panel to launch soon

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More than a year after San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced the creation of a truth, justice and reconciliation commission amid 2020's nationwide protests stemming from the police murder of George Floyd, an Oakland nonprofit is putting the panel together.

Though final plans won't be finalized for several weeks, "people are focusing on sharing the truths about systemic disinvestment and the Black disappearance we've seen in San Francisco since 1970," according to attorney Fania Davis, who is involved with the project and is the sister of out professor and activist Angela Davis.

As the Bay Area Reporter reported July 1, 2020, Boudin joined the top prosecutors in Philadelphia and Boston, along with two civil rights

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