{"id":25452,"date":"2016-05-20T01:33:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T01:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/chinese-most-welcoming-to-refugees-russians-least-25452\/"},"modified":"2016-05-20T01:48:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T01:48:48","slug":"chinese-most-welcoming-to-refugees-russians-least-25452","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/chinese-most-welcoming-to-refugees-russians-least-25452\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco police chief quits amid racism row"},"content":{"rendered":"

{San Francisco’s Police Chief Greg Suhr has stepped down hours after a police officer shot and killed a young black woman driving a suspected stolen car.}<\/p>\n

The resignation was announced by Mayor Ed Lee, who had asked him to quit.<\/p>\n

Mr Suhr and city police had in recent months come under fierce criticism over fatal police shootings of several black suspects.<\/p>\n

Reports also recently emerged that a number of officers had exchanged racist text messages.<\/p>\n

At a news conference on Thursday, Mayor Lee said he hoped the resignation would help “to heal the city”.<\/p>\n

The mayor, who until now had supported Mr Suhr, added: “The progress we have made has been meaningful but it hasn’t been fast enough, not for me and not for Greg, and that’s why I have asked Chief Suhr for his resignation.”<\/p>\n

He named Toney Chaplin as acting police chief.<\/p>\n

The black woman, 27, was shot and killed earlier on Thursday in the city’s Bayview area.<\/p>\n

Police said one of their patrols approached her as she sat in a car that had been reported stolen.<\/p>\n

The woman allegedly tried to drive off and then crashed into a nearby vehicle.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate indication that she had a weapon or had tried to run down a police officer before the shooting, the city authorities said.<\/p>\n

A 34-year veteran of the San Francisco PD, Greg Suhr was once a popular and professional policeman.<\/p>\n

“Greg was always respectful, always a servant of the community,” recalled London Breed, who first encountered Suhr when the latter was a young narcotics officer working the beat. Both men would go on to greater things: Suhr to police chief, Breed to president of the local Board of Supervisors.<\/p>\n

But for Suhr there were missteps along the way – among them a demotion from deputy chief after a female friend told him she had been assaulted by her boyfriend and he failed to file a police report.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on Suhr’s resignation, London Breed said he hoped the city would now come together so that everyone would feel safe in their communities.<\/p>\n

The job of reforming the police department now rests with Greg Suhr’s former deputy Toney Chaplin – another insider, with 26 years of service under his belt.<\/p>\n

In April, five people went on a hunger strike, demanding Mr Suhr be sacked. They ended their strike last week.<\/p>\n

Mr Suhr, a veteran officer, was appointed city police chief in 2011.<\/p>\n

There are more than 1,000 fatal shootings by police in the US each year, and those killed are disproportionately African-American.<\/p>\n

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