After weeks of racist threats, a Black dog walker's home was set on fire in San Francisco
A Black dog walker’s home in San Francisco was set on fire weeks after he reported receiving racially threatening packages.
A Black dog walker’s home in San Francisco was set on fire weeks after he reported receiving racially threatening packages. He was not home at the time of the fire Tuesday, but his parents were trapped upstairs and had to be rescued by firefighters.
Police said they are investigating the sending of the packages as hate crimes but have not identified a suspect.
The walker, Terry Williams, said he found two packages, one April 26, the other May 5, at the row house he lives in with his parents that contained racist threats against him.
“It was a plastic bag that had ‘Gangster,’ ‘thug’ and other negative words about Black people on it,’” Williams told KGO-TV, an ABC San Francisco affiliate. Inside the bag, he said, was a photo of him with racial epithets written on it and a stuffed doll with a noose around its neck and racist vitriol scrawled across it.
Williams was meeting with city leaders Tuesday to talk about the packages when he received a call about the fire.
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