SF Pride parade moving again after a group of protestors blocked the route at 6th and Market St. A protestor told us they stopped the parade because @SFPD are walking along the route & the officers discriminate against trans people. #sfpride #KPIX pic.twitter.com/xlx76MFpDm
— Katie Nielsen (@KatieKPIX) June 30, 2019
Translation: the parade wasn’t far left enough for them.
Via Fox News:
Protesters clashed with police Sunday at the 49th annual San Francisco Pride parade and at least 12 demonstrators sat down in the street with arms linked, blocking the route to protest the involvement of police and corporations including Google.
A list of demands circulating on Twitter demanded “no corporations in Pride,” a nod to Google’s sponsorship of the parade, which some employees of the company had opposed in a petition weeks before the event.
Critics have pointed out examples of hate speech toward LGBTQ people circulating on YouTube and other Google platforms.
In a letter appealing to the Pride parade’s board of directors last Wednesday, a group of 140 Google employees asked that the parade revoke Google’s sponsorship of the event but the board declined to do so. Disgruntled employees opted to organize a protest even after Google told its employees that doing so would violate the company’s communications policy and code of conduct to protest the company while representing the brand at the parade.