“But I also stand before you as a Black woman and a woman raising two Black children in this city,” Jenkins said at the press conference. “That didn’t just happen against an organization and a man. It happened against our children, our babies.”
City officials said the vandalism occurred sometime Friday morning. SFPD said officers responded to the building around 8:20 a.m. and found both graffiti and “a rope resembling a possible noose.”
Supervisor Ahsha Safaí, who represents the area, said the epithets were targeted at Monroe.
“This appalling display of hate has no place in our community,” Safaí said in an email. “This incident is not just an attack on a building; it’s an attack on the values we uphold in San Francisco — diversity, inclusion, and respect for all.”
The supervisor said the racist graffiti appeared days after an encounter between Monroe and an unidentified woman at the Merced Heights Playground. He said the woman was walking her dog in the playground when Monroe asked her to move to a dog run nearby. The woman became hostile, called Monroe a “dirty N-word,” and said, “We shouldn’t have given you books,” adding, “I’m gonna make it my job to shut your organization,” Safaí told The Standard by phone.