The DA announced plans to not pursue murder charges against the Walgreens security guard who shot 24-year-old Banko Brown. The decision has sparked a conversation whether or not private guards should be armed.
"We want to see the tapes. We want to see the proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the DA's office has to justify this murder, and let the community see for themselves," Arroyo said.
Jenkins said her office is not considering releasing the video at this time. "This is still an open investigation. This case is not closed," she said. The shoot has hit a nerve for many in San Francisco that includes Rafael Gutierrez, a security guard at another Walgreens in the city. "It's really crazy," Gutierrez said of his job. "Just for asking to leave the store properly, they want to fight you or they want to pull a knife out at you.""And what can I do? Nothing? We can't do anything to protect ourselves now?" he asked through tears. "I mean, every day I gotta go home to my wife, just letting it out, what I went through. It's not okay."Gutierrez said he does not carry a firearm.
"That is one of the things we're urging," she said, "That firearms, that there has to be some type of oversight of being able to say what is allowed inside San Francisco.""I believe this is going to be a larger conversation that we have to have as a city and as a community," Jenkins said. "We have seen security guards who are unarmed be shot and killed by people stealing.
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