San Francisco, CA
San Francisco activist says, ‘we’re not going to move, we’re fighting,’ as drugs and crime consume Bay Area
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SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s inhabitants plummeted by greater than 100,000 residents from 2020 to 2021, however regardless of spiraling drug and crime crises, one Bay Space resident says he’ll keep and struggle to avoid wasting his metropolis.
“I’ve been right here 20 one thing years … I’d not depart. We’re combating for this metropolis,” mentioned Richie Greenberg, a former Republican candidate for San Francisco mayor. “We’re not going to maneuver, we’re combating.”
Greenberg spoke to Fox Digital whereas strolling by means of the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, a neighborhood infamous for open drug use and crime.
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“They arrive by means of frequently to make sure that it’s sanitary … They try to take away the tents if doable, and any rubbish, needles,” he mentioned.
Open drug use seen on the streets in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District.
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In keeping with Greenberg, when there’s a particular occasion close to Metropolis Corridor, just a few blocks from the Tenderloin, there may be at all times a push to wash up.
“They don’t need the embarrassment,” mentioned Greenberg, who can be a spokesman for the Recall Chesa Boudin Committee.
Boudin faces a recall vote on June 7.
“A number of the assist that we’re getting are from those that are victims. The most typical is both – their dwelling has been damaged into, or their automobile has been damaged into,” mentioned Greenberg.
Folks for and in opposition to embattled District Lawyer, Chesa Boudin, who took workplace in January 2020, level to crime statistics to state their case.
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In keeping with numbers offered by the SFPD, each property and violent crime are down from 2019.
Greenberg advised Fox Information, nonetheless, he thinks the DA’s supporters cherry-pick stats.
“They’ll present the reviews of these which can be truly down, and ignore arson, carjacking and issues like that,” mentioned Greenberg.
The SFPD reported that arson is down 21.9% from this time final yr, however motorized vehicle theft is up 5.6% in that very same time interval throughout the town.
In keeping with the SFPD, property crime typically is up 10.4% in San Francisco from this level final yr. Within the Tenderloin, drivers now depart indicators inside their autos notifying could be burglars there may be nothing of worth inside.
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Signal inside automobile parked in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district.
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The San Francisco Chronicle reported in January that shootings jumped 33% from 2020 to final yr.
“The police division themselves are understaffed and over labored, so they’re out making an attempt to determine which crimes they should reply extra urgently than others,” mentioned Greenberg.
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Throughout her “State of the Metropolis” speech on March 9, SF Mayor London Breed acknowledged the progressive metropolis had been affected by rampant vandalism, automobile and residential break-ins, drug use and gun violence.
“Too many individuals throughout the town, don’t really feel protected,” Breed admitted. But, she went on to downplay crime as “noise” from “proper wing media” retailers.
“You understand, there’s lots of noise about what’s taking place in our metropolis. You see it within the headlines, typically within the right-wing media. They love to speak about San Francisco, do not they? You see it on social media. You see one video take off as if it is telling the entire reality about who we’re. I do know it’s difficult with all that noise to essentially perceive what’s taking place,” the mayor mentioned.
![FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, file photo, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin speaks to reporters before his swearing-in ceremony in San Francisco. Boudin and others are seeking clemency from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for Boudin's father David Gilbert, 76, one of the last surviving figures still imprisoned in the infamous Oct. 20, 1981 Brink's robbery, widely seen as a last gasp of '60s radicalism. The long-shot campaign has taken on urgency with COVID-19 raging through New York's prison system. Chesa Boudin was the 14-month-old son Gilbert and partner Kathy Boudin left behind at a babysitter in 1981, never to return. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2021/03/640/320/Chesa-Boudin-AP.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
FILE – On this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, file picture, San Francisco District Lawyer Chesa Boudin speaks to reporters earlier than his swearing-in ceremony in San Francisco. Boudin and others are in search of clemency from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for Boudin’s father David Gilbert, 76, one of many final surviving figures nonetheless imprisoned within the notorious Oct. 20, 1981 Brink’s theft, extensively seen as a final gasp of ’60s radicalism. The long-shot marketing campaign has taken on urgency with COVID-19 raging by means of New York’s jail system. Chesa Boudin was the 14-month-old son Gilbert and companion Kathy Boudin left behind at a babysitter in 1981, by no means to return. (AP Photograph/Jeff Chiu, File)
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The “noise” could also be maintaining vacationers away. Tourism was up 25% in 2021 from 2020, however down 44% from a document excessive in 2019, in accordance with San Francisco Journey.
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“Essentially the most troublesome factor is our metropolis’s management,” mentioned Greenberg. “The elected leaders and who they appoint to those completely different departments, they’re all a multitude,” he added.
Stand With Chesa, a gaggle funded by San Franciscans Towards the Recall of Chesa Boudin, denied a request by Fox Information for an interview with Boudin.
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San Francisco, CA
Reports: 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall shot in San Francisco
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Wide receiver Ricky Pearsall, the 49ers’ first-round draft pick this past spring, reportedly was shot in a robbery attempt Saturday afternoon in San Francisco and is in stable condition, NBC Bay Area reported.
“He’s good. Thank god!!!!” 49ers teammate Deebo Samuel posted on X/Twitter, adding emojis reflecting a prayer and crossed fingers.
Pearsall was shot near Union Square, according to KGO-7’s Dion Lim.
The San Francisco Fire Department was called to deal with a traumatic injury at 3:38 P.M. near Union Square and found two gunshot victims near Geary and Grand Streets, a spokesman told KTVU’s Sal Castaneda, who added that both victims were taken to a local hospital, one in critical condition and one in stable condition. Pearsall’s Rolex watch was targeted in the attempted robbery, Castaneda added, citing multiple sources.
The suspected shooter is in police custody, Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s office told NBC Bay Area’s Gia Vang.
Earlier Saturday, Pearsall signed autographs at a card show at San Francisco’s Cow Palace.
Neither the San Francisco Police Department nor the 49ers immediately returned messages left by this news organization.
Pearsall, 23, is a Phoenix, Arizona native who is entering his first NFL season after playing collegiately at Florida the past two seasons and Arizona State the prior three years.
A shoulder injury has kept Pearsall from practicing the past 3 1/2 weeks, after an offseason hamstring injury delayed his entry into training camp by a week. His left shoulder has a history of partial dislocations dating back to his junior year in college, and he aggravated it in spring practices as well as on Aug. 6.
He’s done conditioning drills on the side as the 49ers prepare for their regular-season opener Sept. 9 against the New York Jets at Levi’s Stadium.
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San Francisco, CA
San Francisco shooting leaves young girl injured, per witness
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A shooting in San Francisco left an 8-year-old girl injured on Friday, according to her father.
The San Francisco Police Department said officers were called to the unit block of Chicago Way at approximately 5:24 p.m. for reports of a shooting. Upon the officers’ arrival, they found a young girl suffering from injuries, although police did not confirm she was shot. Police only said she was transported to a nearby hospital with “life-threatening injuries.”
Police did not provide other information.
However, according to the girl’s father, the family was setting things up for dinner when a bullet came into the house and hit his daughter.
Officers are still at the scene conducting their investigation.
San Francisco, CA
Racist graffiti, noose at San Francisco park tied to dog dispute
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Noose, racist graffiti at San Francisco park tied to dog dispute
Someone spray-painted racist graffiti and left a noose at a San Francisco playground, days after a dog owner was told her pet wasn’t allowed there.
SAN FRANCISCO – Racist graffiti and a noose found at a San Francisco park happened days after a woman was told she could not have her dog in the playground by the head of a youth organization.
The woman vowed to do everything possible to shut down this group, officials said on Friday during a news conference at the park hours after the vile messages had been painted over.
“That disgusting racial slur that was written all over this building does not define who we are as a city,” said Maria Su, director of the city’s Department of Children, Youth and their Families.
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The vandalism at Merced Heights Playground on Shields Street is being investigated as a hate crime and a direct attack on the nonprofit called Youth First.
“This is not tolerated. And it will not be tolerated. We will continue to celebrate Youth First,” Su said.
Renard Monroe, Youth First’s founder and executive director, said that someone had spray-painted “N- First” on the building.
“It was destroyed by hate,” Monroe said. “The N-word. It said, ‘N-word First’ because we’re called Youth First, so they were kind of aiming that word toward our program.”
Officials believe the vandalism is a direct response to an incident at the park last week when a woman with her toddler daughter and their dog were near the playground, in the upper terrace area, where dogs are not allowed.
When Monroe told the woman to take her dog to the lower terrace of the park, where dogs are allowed, she told him, “No (N-word) is going to tell me where to go,” he recounted.
Supervisor Ahsha Safai said, “Then it turned into the N-word. It turned into threats. And the woman said, ‘I am going to make it my job to shut down your organization.’”
Following the threat, state licensing officials visited the park based on an anonymous tip, questioning whether Monroe’s operation was a childcare facility when it is actually an after-school program.
“People show up saying the music’s too loud. And then today he (Monroe) shows up and there’s spray paint and a noose hanging on the door,” Safai said.
Officials said the incident is a grim reminder that there is still division and hatred, even in a city as diverse as San Francisco.
“Everyone that doesn’t believe that racism is still alive – and still alive in San Francisco – it absolutely is. But guess what? We’re not going to be broken by it,” the supervisor said.
While no suspects have been publicly identified, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins assured that once the case reaches her office, “We will do everything to make sure the person or persons responsible for this are held accountable.”
Jenkins said, although the messages were abhorrent, the hate beneath the vandalism can’t be ignored.
“We have to bring attention to it, as much as we don’t want to give what this person did attention, San Francisco has to recognize how much work it still needs to do,” Jenkins said.
Henry Lee is a KTVU crime reporter. E-mail Henry at Henry.Lee@fox.com and follow him on Twitter @henrykleeKTVU and www.facebook.com/henrykleefan.
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