Member of Reparations Committee served restraining order after threatening coworkers

Nikcole Cunningham said she often "plans or thinks of ways she could kill people at her job,” including "shooting them down in their driveways."

Nikcole Cunningham, who serves on the California city’s 15-person African American Reparations Advisory Committee, was served with a restraining order from the City and County of San Francisco on Dec. 28, 2023, after threatening her coworkers. Cunningham, who has been employed by the San Francisco Human Services Agency (HSA) as a social worker since 2007, stated that she has been "homicidal many, many times.”

In the restraining order (which you can read in its entirety here), HSA Executive Director Trent Rhorer says on or about December 7, 2023, an employee at the City's Health Service System (HSS), which coordinates health plans for San Francisco and other employers, notified him that long-term disability insurance provider Hartford had informed the City that Cunningham made a credible threat of workplace violence against HSA employees via a letter from Cunningham to Hartford.

“On or about December 15, 2023, I was informed that the City finally received a redacted version of Cunningham's letter, and I was provided a copy. The letter disturbed me greatly,” Rhorer states. “Cunningham stated that she has been "homicidal many, many times" and has focused her murderous thoughts on her coworkers … She said, ‘I often plan or think of ways that I could kill the people at my job who have harmed me since 2016. I have had fantasies about pulling the fire alarm to make everyone leave the building and when they all go down to the designated location outside for safety, I’d literally take out my 38 Smith & Wesson that is securely locked up right now and kill as many people as possible … I am very aware that there will be some innocent casualties and I'm sorry for that but in my head I don't care. I often think about paying a few extra dollars on the Internet to find out where these people live (I already have some of their addresses) and wait for them to leave their house and shoot them down in their driveways.’”

Cunningham also talks about buying assault weapons and how the cost would be a small price to pay to “end many lives in a few seconds." She further explains that she '“can relate so well to the employee who shoots up the workplace bullying tactics and harassment." Additionally, she discusses how repeatedly clicking her unloaded 38 Smith and Wesson “relieves her.”

“Given Cunningham's detailed statements about workplace violence, I am concerned that she is unstable and may actually carry out her threats on HSA employees of which I am one,” Rhorer continues in his declaration. “I consider Cunningham's letter to be a specific threat of physical violence against myself and other City employees working HSA in San Francisco, including those at Cunningham's regular worksite…”

If Cunningham’s name sounds familiar it may be because this past July she said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph that “Straight white men are abusive. Straight white men are serial killers. They have the most — I watch these shows — the most serial killers. Straight white men are the ones who are shooting up schools, right? So they are a danger to society.”

You can find the full text of the restraining order here: https://archive.org/details/restraining-order-ccsf-v-cunningham-12.28.23