reported in June, nonbinary San Francisco Police Department Officer Rubin Rhodes of Mission Station was reprimanded for wearing earrings one day after taking a knee in front of the station in solidarity with protesters demanding justice for Black people killed by police. (The incident was not mentioned during the police commission vote.)Rhodes, who could not be reached by the B.A.R.
contemporaneously for comment, told the San Francisco Examiner that he had worn earrings on most days over the last five years and his doing so had only been an issue once before. (He told the paper that he uses male pronouns.)At that time, Matt Dorsey, a gay man who is the communications director of the SFPD, told the B.A.R.