Activist Edwin Lindo lies on a hammock during the fifth day of a hunger strike protesting police violence outside the Mission Police Station in San Francisco, Calif. Monday, April 25, 2016.
Ike Pinkston sheds a tear while speaking during a demonstration marking the beginning of a hunger strike calling for the resignation of SFPD Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee at Mission Police Station in San Francisco, Calif. Thursday, April 21, 2016.
Five hunger strikers (from left) Ike Pinkston, Ilyich Sato, Sellassie Blackwell, Maria Cristina Gutierrez and Edwin Lindo are pushed in wheelchairs down Mission Street during a march to City Hall from the Mission Police Station at 17th and Valencia Streets in San Francisco, Calif. Tuesday, May 3, 2016.
Activist Edwin Lindo lies on a hammock during the fifth day of a hunger strike protesting police violence outside the Mission Police Station in San Francisco, Calif. Monday, April 25, 2016.
On April 21, 2016, A grandmother, two artists, a political candidate and a preschool teacher announced the beginning of a hunger strike calling for the resignation of SFPD Chief Greg Suhr following corruption, racist scandals and violence within the San Francisco Police Department as well as two police killings of people of color within six months. The five San Francisco residents set up camp outside the Mission Police Station, refusing to move or eat until the chief resigned or was fired. With the community's support behind them, they continued their strike for seventeen days and, ultimately, Suhr resigned from his position.