SAN FRANCISCO—The practitioners of Falun Gong in San Francisco held a demonstration and press conference on the steps of City Hall on Thursday. Their message: 13 years of hate crimes directed against them in the city by the bay have to stop.
The practitioners were spurred into action by a violent incident around midday this past Sunday.
At the corner of Grant and Washington streets in Chinatown, a group of four or five practitioners gathered to give out fliers and hold up a placard that tells about what Falun Gong is and how it is persecuted in China. According to practitioners present at the scene, the following scenario played out.
At this same street corner, a Chinese man wearing a red t-shirt stood on a stool behind the practitioners. Standing above them on his stool, he loudly cursed Falun Gong and shouted out slogans that support the Chinese regime.
