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Earl Sanders, first Black San Francisco police chief, dies at 83 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Then-Assistant Chief of Police Earl Sanders investigated the 101 California mass shooting when he was in the homicide unit.Deanne Fitzmaurice / The Chronicle 1998Show MoreShow Less 2of3 Assistant Chief of Police at SFPD, Earl Sanders investigated the 101 California shootings July 1, 1993, when he was in the homicide unit. Sanders, who would later be elevated to chief of police, died Monday, Jan. 11, 2021.Deanne Fitzmaurice / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of3 San Francisco Police Chief Earl Sanders and his wife, Espanola Sanders, appear at the San Francisco Hall of Justice Tuesday, March 4, 2003.Noah Berger / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less ....
The Zebra Killings F. Roger Devlin, American Renaissance, January 8, 2020 Editor’s Note: This 9,000-word account is the best summary you will find anywhere of a largely forgotten series of grisly black-on-white murders. They will never be as celebrated as Emmitt Till, but 15 white San Franciscans were killed because of their race over a terrifying six-month period in the early 1970s. The killings, which became known as the Zebra murders, were carried out by a group of at least four black men associated with the Nation of Islam. On the evening of October 20, 1973, 30-year-old Richard Hague and his 28-year-old wife Quita, were strolling down Telegraph Hill, barely a block from home, when a white van pulled up beside them. Three black men emerged; one pointed a gun at them and ordered them to get in the van. Quita ran off, but the men grabbed Richard. Thinking their intent was merely robbery, and that they would be let him go if they cooperated, she went back. The b ....