SF supervisors press Lennar for formal apology after armed security operative at Bayview meeting

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday adopted a resolution calling on Lennar Corporation to issue a formal written apology to the Bayview Hunters Point community and members of the Stop Lennar Action Movement, after a private security operative contracted to Lennar entered a community meeting on Feb. 18 carrying a concealed firearm.

The resolution, introduced by Supervisor David Daly, passed as amended after several hours of debate. Supervisors approved language adding the Bayview Hunters Point community to the apology’s recipients and softened one phrasing to say the incident “placed attendees in potential danger.” Two proposed edits to broaden or strike critical language were tied and therefore not included. The final vote on the amended resolution was 8–2 in favor.

The incident at issue occurred at a community meeting hosted at the Center for Self-Improvement, at the site of the Nation of Islam mosque on Third Street, where about 200 people were present. A man, identified subsequently as a retired San Francisco police officer working for Verasys — a security company under contract with Lennar — is reported to have been recording the meeting, signed in under an alias and,…