Elias Georgopoulos testified on Monday that he ”pushed back” when he saw San Francisco’s parking-enforcement director disproportionately ticketing cars in Bayview, the Mission, and the Excelsior, all neighborhoods with a much higher density of Latinx and/or Black residents than the rest of San Francisco.
“I memorized the rules,” Georgopoulos told the court during the fifth day in his trial against the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. “I learned what parking supervisors can and can’t do.”
Georgopoulos, who worked at the SFMTA for 22 years before walking out of the building and never coming back in 2020, has accused the transportation agency of fostering a culture of racism and discrimination, as well as failing to properly address his reports of harassment and physical intimidation in the workplace. Shawn McCormick, the SFMTA parking director, is not named in the lawsuit…