Censorship's Deadly Crossroads: Cell phones, mental health and homelessness in San Francisco
MaxEternity.com - On the evening of July 3, Charles Blair Hill was shot and killed in San Francisco. At the time of the shooting, Hill was on the platform of the Bay Area Rapid Transit’s (BART) Civic Center station, located just a couple blocks from San Francisco’s City Hall complex.
Hill was homeless and also thought to have had unaddressed mental health problems.
Initially Hill was suspected to have been intoxicated at the time, but unarmed. Since the incident occurred, however, BART police informed that Hill had a knife, which they say was used to assault the arresting officers.
In the ensuing weeks, protests have been planned and organized, one of which spurred BART administrators to shut down cell phone and internet service in the immediate area of the Civic Center station as an attempt to quell potential BART commute disruptions, also citing public safety. This event then trigger others, whereby civil rights organizations, including an international, activist, hacker group called Anonymous, expressed outrage by what they see as free speech censorship by BART police. Read more.
Hill was homeless and also thought to have had unaddressed mental health problems.
Initially Hill was suspected to have been intoxicated at the time, but unarmed. Since the incident occurred, however, BART police informed that Hill had a knife, which they say was used to assault the arresting officers.
In the ensuing weeks, protests have been planned and organized, one of which spurred BART administrators to shut down cell phone and internet service in the immediate area of the Civic Center station as an attempt to quell potential BART commute disruptions, also citing public safety. This event then trigger others, whereby civil rights organizations, including an international, activist, hacker group called Anonymous, expressed outrage by what they see as free speech censorship by BART police. Read more.
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