Block party shows support for SF family following house fire and racist messages

In San Francisco, police have been investigating a fire that recently occurred in the home of a Black family after Terry Williams, one of the residents, received racist messages. The house is now boarded up.

On Sunday, May 26, a block party was held on San Francisco's Grove Street in support of Williams' family.

Ryan Curry, a reporter for KGO-TV Channel 7 (the ABC affiliate in the Bay Area), reports that when the fire occurred, Williams' mother was inside — and a neighbor named Theresa went in to try to help.

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At the block party, Williams' sister, Letisha Williams-Humphrey, told attendees, "I feel like someone has died; my house died — my childhood house that I have been at since I was three years old."

Curry notes that the fire occurred about a month after Williams started receiving racist messages — one of which was a doll with a noose tied around its neck.

According to Curry, "Terry and his family have lived in their neighborhood his entire life. Terry has come to know his neighbors through his dog-walking business. The racism he has received confounds him."

Williams told KGO-TV Channel 7 News, "So I go up there walking dogs, doing what I am doing for so long — they don't like that. I have been told they don't like me walking dogs. On the note, they said they don't want me up there — get out of here."

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Read KGO-TV Channel 7 News' full article at this link.