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SAN FRANCISCO — A crowd of more than 10,000 people hit San Francisco streets Wednesday afternoon for another day of protests against the police killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd, flooding the city for blocks on end as protesters made their way from Mission High School to the city’s Hall of Justice.

“This is community looking out for community and that’s all we need,” protest organizer Simone Jacques told the growing crowd before it began marching, making its way around giant loop around Market, Guerrero and 16th streets.

The protest that began with a few hundred high schoolers at Dolores Park ballooned into the thousands by late afternoon. As protesters at the Hall of Justice watched a handful of people burned an American flag atop a school bus, another crowd of protesters faced off against police at the Mission station before merging with yet another group at City Hall.

Meanwhile, smaller groups rallied elsewhere in the Bay Area, including in San Jose, Richmond, San Mateo and Oakland, where a few thousand people gathered to sit or kneel in the intersection of 14th and Broadway at dusk.

Outside San Francisco’s Mission High School, volunteers — including many local doctors and nurses — set up speakers and microphones while others dropped off hundreds of bottles of water, snacks and face masks. Traditional Mexica dancers lined up along 18th Street, flanked by silver and black balloons spelling out “Black Lives Matter.”

Thousands have rallied nationwide for days against the police killings of Floyd and countless other black people, including 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, who was shot in her Louisville, Kentucky home in March after police entered on a no-knock warrant.

In San Jose, a growing crowd of 100 marchers gathered at City Hall starting around in the late afternoon, waving signs and eating popsicles in the rising heat.

“We don’t have health care, our jobs don’t pay much and the state itself is killing us and not supporting us in this crisis,” said Nnanna Nkele, a 33-year-old black man from San Jose who lost his sales job to the coronavirus lockdown. “I’m here to fight for the America we were promised. We want a place we can feel safe and we can be prosperous.”

Police in the city have faced mounting questions from city leaders after videos of aggressive police behavior surfaced amid the protests, including one showing an officer shouting “Let’s get this motherf—er” and “Shut up, bitch” at demonstrators Friday, and another that shows a police motorcycle hitting a fleeing man in downtown San Jose Sunday.

“If police brutality is what we’re protesting, showing up in riot gear is fanning the flames and expecting there to be no fire,” he said.

Meanwhile, the scene in Richmond presented a marked contrast, as police officers — including Interim Police Chief Bisa French — joined a rally in a city park with several hundred people Wednesday, many nodding and clapping along to activists and community members.

“As a black and Latina woman, I’ve felt a range of emotions this week, just like all of you,” French told the group. “I have to reconcile the fact that I wear this uniform that I know has oppressed people and communities I have grown up in, that I live in and that I serve.”

But even as she commended the officers who showed up to participate in the rally, French acknowledged that police departments — including her own — must do more to address systemic racism in law enforcement.

“I’m tired. Everybody’s tired. But as the leader of the police department, it’s my obligation to continue to lead and to make the changes that I want to see and that you want to see,” she said, adding, “My promise to you is that I’m going to continue to do the work.”

On the Peninsula, a few thousand marchers ended a rally Wednesday evening outside the San Mateo police station, calling on officers to “take a knee” while around half the crowd broke off to head down Hillsdale Avenue.

Golden State Warriors basketball player Steph Curry and partner Ayesha Curry joined protesters in a march around Lake Merritt Wednesday afternoon, but a larger protest in defiance of the city’s curfew was expected to begin at around 8:05 p.m.

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