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After an Urban Alchemy community ambassador was fatally shot on the job last month, San Francisco lawmakers on Tuesday rallied behind the nonprofit, whose future role in the city has been in question in recent months.
City leaders joined about 100 members of the Tenderloin community on the steps of City Hall to pay tribute to Joey Alexander, who was shot just a few hundred feet away in front of the city’s main library after asking a man to stop using drugs on the street.
They paid tribute to Alexander’s life and service, as well as to the mission of the nonprofit, which has contracted with the city since 2018 to patrol and clean up some of its roughest downtown streets…