San Francisco has become the latest city where protesters are demanding the resignation of the police chief after the death of a young black man at the hands of the police.

Similar calls have been made by activists in Ferguson, Mo., Minneapolis, Baltimore and Chicago after deaths in those cities.

“Its universal. Ferguson is here,” the Rev. Amos C. Brown, president of the San Francisco N.A.A.C.P., said in a phone interview Thursday. “It’s all over this country. It’s time this country recognize it. ”