{"id":443308,"date":"2026-08-25T19:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443308\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:50:11","slug":"supporters-rally-for-18-arrested-during-sf-pride-block-party-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443308\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporters rally for 18 arrested during SF Pride block party \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters gathered outside San Francisco\u2019s Hall of Justice on Tuesday to rally behind 18 people facing charges after being arrested during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/charges-incidents-san-francisco-pride-weekend\/4107584\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pride Month block party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants had been expected to be arraigned Tuesday, but the hearing was pushed back until next week following a last-minute change.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, attorneys filed a demurrer and a motion to dismiss in an effort to have all charges against the defendants thrown out. A judge did not issue a decision Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of those arrested also gathered outside San Francisco&#8217;s Hall of Justice for a rally denouncing the misdemeanor charges filed by the District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the 18 defendants faces three misdemeanor counts: unlawful assembly, disobeying a dispersal order and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Defense attorneys called the charges an overreach by the District Attorney&#8217;s Office and accused prosecutors of trying to intimidate the transgender community.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Lederman, an attorney representing the defendants, said she expects the charges to be defeated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We fully expect to beat these charges, which are completely baseless, because people are charged with disobeying a dispersal order that police documents themselves reveal that no dispersal order was given,&#8221; Lederman said.<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from the &#8220;Stud Alley&#8221; party, an unsanctioned street event that has taken place during San Francisco Pride and has resulted in vandalism in the past.<\/p>\n<p>This year, videos posted on social media showed damage in the city&#8217;s South of Market neighborhood following the event, including graffiti, damage to businesses and vandalized security cameras.<\/p>\n<p>A judge will ultimately decide whether the charges against the 18 defendants can move forward.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants are expected to return to court Sept. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supporters gathered outside San Francisco\u2019s Hall of Justice on Tuesday to rally behind 18 people facing charges after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2434,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-443308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-lgbtq","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}