On Sunday night, a large group of protesters gathered in front of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson's house in the Central West End to call for her resignation. On Friday, the mayor read aloud the names and addresses of protesters who want to defund the police during one of her Live with Lyda briefings, streamed on Facebook Live.
Activists on Friday delivered plans addressed to Krewson at City Hall that called for a redistribution of the police budget and to close the Workhouse, a medium-security jail under fire for allegedly housing inmates in unsafe conditions. Those documents contained their names and addresses, which Krewson broadcast live. The video has since been taken down, but a Change.org petition calling for the mayor's resignation, started that evening, now has more than 40,000 signatures. The mayor also issued an apology Friday evening, stating that she didn't mean to harm anyone by reading their personal information. National outlets including Newsweek and NBC have reported the story.
A member of SLM Media Group present at the protests said that several hundred people had gathered in front of the mayor's home, in the Central West End. Expect US, a group organizing demonstrations to call out racial injustice against African Americans, planned a 6 p.m. demonstration at the corners of Maryland and Euclid. It wasn't clear if this was the same group demonstrating outside of the mayor's home.
Protesters could be heard chanting, "This ain't OK, shut it down," likely in reference to the Workhouse, as well as "Who's going to fire her? We're going to fire her."
A group of protesters outside Mayor Lyda Krewson's home
