Activist screams about trans rights at San Francisco board of supervisors meeting after black trans person shot while shoplifting at Walgreens

On Tuesday, trans activist Lia McGeever articulated a message during a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting of a prolonged, high-pitched scream.

Fox News reports that McGeever was protesting the recent death of a trans-identified black man, Banko Brown, who was shot and killed while allegedly shoplifting at a Walgreens. A masked McGeever approached the podium, addressed the board, and said, "I live in D6 (District 6). I hate a lot of people on this board, for the reasons that led up to Banko Brown's death. So, often I prepare something, maybe it's a little historical, may even be a little poetic, whatever. There's a lot of performative people on this board who will say one thing and support Black people, homeless people, trans people, and then immediately stab you in the face, being racist, transphobic, anti-homeless."

"So I don't have any words prepared today. I just want you to feel our pain. I don't know if you can at this point, based off your policy choices, but I have to pretend you have some form of empathy left," McGeever added.

McGeever then took off the mask and said, "So, I am going to spend the next minute screaming 'cause that is what is going on in here. That is what the trans genocide in this country, in this city, has brought me to."

Thus began the screaming.

McGeever's body jerked the podium during the prolonged belching of noise.

"Imagine that," McGeever inserted in the scream.

A breathless McGeever again paused the screech and said, "I hate this, I hate what you've done to us. I hate what you're doing to us. I hate you, Board of Supervisors. I hate you, (Mayor) London Breed. I hate you, (District Attorney Brooke) Jenkins."

Someone from the crowd shouted that someone needed to "hold Jenkins accountable."

McGeever ended with calling everyone on the Board of Supervisors a "coward."

Michael-Earl Wayne Anthony, the armed security guard who reportedly shot Brown while he was stealing at the Walgreens, was not brought up on charges by San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.

According to the San Francisco Standard, Brown was a trans-identified male. Brown reportedly spit at and charged the security guard before shots were fired.

In a statement, Jenkins said, "After careful review of all of the evidence gathered by the San Francisco Police Department in this case, my office will not be pursuing murder charges, at this time, in connection to the shooting."

"We reviewed witness statements, statements from the suspect, and video footage of the incident and it does not meet the People’s burden to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that the suspect is guilty of a crime," Jenkins said. "The evidence clearly shows that the suspect believed he was in mortal danger and acted in self-defense."

After the shooting protestors, including Jessica Nowlan from Young Women's Freedom Center, said that they "demand an end to armed security."