Roughly 60 faculty, students and medical residents from the UC San Francisco staged a "die-in" protest outside San Francisco General Hospital to protest armed security guards in hospitals, according to Mission Local.
The group laid down outside the front door, requesting the hospital no longer use law enforcement agencies as security for the hospital. They also said guns and stun guns should be banned from hospital campuses. Sheyda Aboii, a medical student at UCSF, helped organize the protest with the group White Coats for Black Lives.
"We're wondering if we can provide safety in hospitals in other ways without uniforms and guns and flashing lights," Ms. Aboii told Mission Local.
The county sheriff's office provides security for the hospital on an annually-renewed contract, with six deputies and eight unarmed cadets patrolling the hospital at any given time.
"You need that opposing opinion to make sure things are in check. So hearing them today is great — we need to hear that voice, we need to know what their thoughts are because it keeps the conversation open," Eric Partik, a captain with the UCSF Police Department who watched the protest, told Mission Local.