At 10:49 p.m., Lt. Manilla Padilla instructed revelers in the Mission District to disperse, saying, "You have four minutes to leave the area to disperse." The police presence included dozens of officers and sheriff's deputies, equipped and prepared to enforce the dispersal.
"If we could create enough leaders and put them in places all over the city, they would come with that value of helping others, uplifting community, and working to give women more power and voice in decision-making everywhere in the city."
"Walking through the exhibit, Ongpin points out a series of plein air paintings of Mission District corners from Holdsworth, who's originally from England. 'He's got a bike and basically an art studio that he bikes around (with), and then he'll just set up an easel and paint plein air all over the Mission,' she says."