San Francisco Police Uniforms from Police State in Colombia?
Date of publication: August 9, 2007
Source: The Huffington Post
Author: Tom Hayden
As progressive San Francisco struggles to implement its groundbreaking sweatfree ordinance, new evidence unearthed by the City's staff suggests that police trousers are produced in Colombia, where scores of labor leaders have been assassinated and the regime is riddled with paramilitaries and narco-traffickers.
The City's own sweatfree enforcement staff, funded under the ordinance, found the Colombia-assembled police trousers in a site visit to the Galls Uniform retail store, bearing Flying Cross-Fechheimer labels. The current contract with San Francisco expires in 2008...