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San Francisco DA DROPS charges against vagrant who repeatedly bashed city's ex-fire commissioner in the head with a metal crowbar - and now 'plans to prosecute the victim for deploying pepper spray'
Don Carmignani, 53, was left fighting for his life after being brutally attacked on April 12 by homeless Garrett Doty
The former fire chief claims that he had to 'take matters into his own hands' after his mothers' 911 calls were not responded to
He was informed by his attorneys that DA Brooke Jenkins is planning on bringing charges against him for carrying pepper spray
San Fran is on the far right of the scale along with Democrat shitholes like Philadelphia, Chicago, Portland and Seattle.
Just one set of data to show the drop off of economic activity in these shitholes as less people are working and/or spending money there. I suspect tourism has dropped off significantly in San Fran as well.
Las Vegas is around 80% and San Diego is 99%, as well as Washington DC is at 73% as Biden is expected to push federal agencies to have their civil servants return to the office.
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Just a few blocks from San Francisco City Hall, the aroma of an international feast filled La Cocina’s Municipal Marketplace on a sunny spring afternoon as a team of chefs plated dishes from Algeria, El Salvador, Mexico, Nepal and the Deep South.
Judging by the delicious food alone, all was going according to plan at the women-led marketplace, which was established at great expense with taxpayer money and private donations in San Francisco’s struggling Tenderloin neighborhood. ...
With its vividly painted exterior and remarkable culinary offerings, the marketplace appears to be a positive presence in a building that formerly was a defunct post office. Yet, the lasting impacts of the pandemic, a looming recession and the spiraling fentanyl crisis have continued to plague the Tenderloin. ...
La Cocina's Municipal Marketplace was made possible by $2.2 million from the city, $750,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and more than $2 million from philanthropic foundations and individual donations. When it was first developed, the 7,000-square-foot food hall attracted not only local attention but also coverage in national outlets like Forbes. ...
Bahloul told The Standard he feels that his family and the other business owners in the marketplace are still dealing with the aftereffects of the pandemic.
“Nothing is going the way it’s supposed to,” he said. “I can’t make a profit.” ...
Bahloul noted that the daily “rush” only lasts from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and the marketplace is closed on weekends. Since many people don’t feel safe visiting the neighborhood after dark, dinner is not a viable path to profitability.
“No one wants to hang out in the Tenderloin,” he said. “Tourists stumble upon it and follow their GPS thinking it’ll get better, but it doesn’t.”
“It’s a great concept, but people are afraid to come down here,” said Damian Morffet, who manages security at the marketplace. He said that minutes earlier, he cleared the corner of people using fentanyl—a task he’s been faced with every day over the three years he’s worked at the marketplace. ...
On Sept. 1, 2022, during dinner service at the marketplace, chef Estrella Gonzalez said she had a feeling something was wrong. While working behind the counter at her Salvadoran food stall, Estrellita’s Snacks, she realized a man had been in the restroom for about three hours.
Gonzalez said she alerted La Cocina’s security team, who accessed the restroom and found that the man was unconscious. Gonzalez said the paramedics spent about half an hour with the man before pulling him out of the bathroom. She was later told by a security guard that he had died from an overdose.
“It was very bad to experience,” she told her son Angel, who translated for The Standard. “We had to tell the customers that were waiting for their orders that we had an emergency and needed to close the building.” ...
Landa said the man’s death and similar incidents have catalyzed a number of changes to the marketplace’s safety policies. La Cocina has limited access to the building, so now there’s one entrance and exit that’s staffed by a security guard at all times. Landa said her team has hosted Narcan trainings to reverse overdoses before they become fatal. Still, she said it’s difficult to create an open and inclusive space while taking safety considerations seriously. ...
When SFGATE visited the store earlier this month, reporters found that formula wasn’t the only necessity behind bars, either. Gallons of detergent like Tide and Gain were shielded behind sliding plastic doors that loudly screeched whenever you pulled them aside. Other basics like batteries and razors were locked away, too. The hard liquor was also behind a massive glass case, along with the store’s arguably more “top-shelf” wines.
Safeway representatives declined to say how many stores in the Bay Area have these new barricades and receipt scanners, but asserted that they’re necessary to “curtail escalating theft” and provide a “welcoming” environment for the community.
“Rampant shoplifting continues to be on the rise at alarming levels at retailers across the Bay Area,” the company said in a written statement. “We have increased our investments in security measures in stores throughout the region to help combat this ongoing issue. Those updates include operational changes to the front end of select stores to deter shoplifting.”
San Diego? Weird, because it has hordes of bums almost rivaling these of SF's.
RWSGFY says
San Diego? Weird, because it has hordes of bums almost rivaling these of SF's.
I'm thinking tourism is such a boom in San Diego that it recovered, and likely has more tourism to compensate for a drop in some downtown businesses allowing work from home (in other states).
But I don't read or hear as much bad news about homelessness in San Diego as I do in Los Angeles or San Francisco.
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Nordstrom closing downtown San Francisco department store
The Westfield San Francisco Centre, located downtown at 865 Market St., where Nordstrom is closing its 300,000-square-foot department store.
Alex Barreira
Retail giant Nordstrom plans to close its 312,000-square-foot department store at the Westfield San Francisco Centre in August, citing changing dynamics downtown, the company told the Business Times exclusively.
The Seattle company will also close its 45,496-square-foot Nordstrom Rack store across the street at 901 Market St. on July 1, ending a 35-year presence in downtown San Francisco. The closures come as both leases approach the end of their current terms with the option for renewal.
"Decisions like this are never easy, and this one has been especially difficult," wrote Jamie Nordstrom, the company's chief stores officer, in a message to impacted employees. "But as many of you know, the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully."
Police Tell San Francisco Homeowner To Hire Private Security After Suffering 8 Break-Ins
The rise in property crime has rattled neighborhoods across the city. ...
The last incident, a brazen intrusion by a man who entered the house by breaking into the front door, happened in broad daylight last Saturday morning. He appeared to be armed, though he fled once confronted by a worker, and left the scene in a white BMW driven by someone who accompanied him to the house.
In another incident in March, intruders arrived with two vehicles and ransacked the home, breaking windows and a downstairs door. They fled with construction tools, equipment, and appliances, including a washer and dryer.
Police have told Cook that they simply won’t investigate these types of crimes, according to Cook. After repeatedly calling the San Francisco Police Department to report the thefts with little to show for his efforts, an officer told Cook after Saturday’s break-in that he would have better luck hiring private security guards.
Nordstrom closing SF Locations.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/after-nordstrom-closures-s-f-stop-retail-exodus-18074794.php
After Nordstrom store closures, what can San Francisco do to stop the retail exodus?
You might remember Brooke Jenkins, San Fransisco’s replacement District Attorney, after woke S.F. citizens recalled Jenkins’ useless Soros-funded predecessor, Chesa Boudin (if that’s his real name).
Jenkins seems to have gotten the message.
Michael Anthony, 33, is a security guard at a downtown San Fransisco Walgreens. On April 27th, officers responded to a report of a shooting at his Walgreens and found a victim, later identified as Banko Brown, who had been shot and killed.
Brown was a homeless “trans man” (a biological woman) of color. Security guard Anthony was briefly arrested for homicide. ...
In a statement last Monday, District Attorney Jenkins said that charges were dropped because prosecutors could not prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the guard was guilty of a crime after they reviewed statements from witnesses and the guard, along with video footage of the April 27 episode at a store on Market Street. ...
What we do know about the video is that it apparently shows that homeless Banko — I know you’re going to find this hard to believe — probably assaulted Mr. Anthony after being stopped for shoplifting. But Ms. Jenkins said in a statement, “This was a shoplifting that, really, based on the facts, turned into and escalated into a robbery, and the armed security guard did, ultimately, end up using lethal force. The evidence clearly shows that the suspect believed he was in mortal danger and acted in self-defense.”
Ms. Jenkins called the Brown’s killing a “tragedy,” but said, “We cannot bring forward charges when there is credible evidence of reasonable self-defense. Doing so would be unethical and create false hope for a successful prosecution.”
What we don’t know is whether Banko was hopped up on free, City-provided testosterone. I’d give it even odds.
The headline is hilarious:
After Nordstrom store closures, what can San Francisco do to stop the retail exodus?
To stop the exodus, enforce the law.
Like it's such a difficult hard to grasp solution to a complex mysterious problem.
In an email last Tuesday, Nordstrom’s chief retail officer explained to employees that “the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.”
Haha, the “dynamics” of downtown, that’s a good one. He means like the exciting “dynamic” situation when a homeless lunatic like Banko Brown suddenly and unexpectedly assaults you in broad daylight for no reason.
The Westfield mall’s owner was more blunt and less politically correct. His statement said the Nordstroms’ closure “underscores the deteriorating situation in Downtown San Francisco.” It explained, without mincing words, “a growing number of retailers and businesses are leaving the area due to the unsafe conditions for customers, retailers, and employees, coupled with the fact that these significant issues are preventing an economic recovery of the area.” ...
Meanwhile, billionaires like Peter Thiel are complaining that Florida’s booming real estate is too expensive. What could the difference be?
'What the f* happened to this place?' Dave Chappelle slams San Francisco as 'half Glee, half zombie movie' at surprise gig - as he recalls homeless person DEFECATING outside Indian restaurant he was about to eat in
Dave Chappelle, 49, slammed the city's rampant homeless crisis on Thursday
The comedian put on a surprise performance at the Masonic Auditorium
He said San Francisco was now the Tenderloin - which is a district of San Francisco notorious for its crime, homelessness and drug problems
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/05/15/let-the-blue-cities-die-n2623218
That is why the Globalists want to reduce the collective intelligence, because they fear the natively intelligent in the populace.
I know it's terrible to expose kids to the truth too early, but I wish I was exposed to it earlier.
Are you sure you were not exposed? Or just not ready to accept it yet.
Funny you should mention Social Conformance via Late Nite (Un)funny Men.
Just saw this minutes ago:
Funny you should mention Social Conformance via Late Nite (Un)funny Men.
Absence makes the heart grow scornier. When you are on hiatus from the hypnotist propagandists for a while and then watch them, they can fill you with peak revulsion, they are so contemptible. I realize that my Santa Cruz liberal friend does this to me, as pointed out in the Oliver article, a reflex derisive laughter, but then he will listen afterward.
Crime, Homelessness and Commercial Vacancies: SJ’s Doom Loop Mirrors SF
San Francisco Does Detroit
Nordstrom’s closure marks the beginning of the end for the City by the Bay.
May 6, 2023
I left San Francisco just in time — at the end of 2016.
Sure, I saw the occasional junkie shooting up in public when I still worked in the city. And yes, I saw men use the sidewalk at the intersection of Fifth and Market streets as a toilet.
But I never saw swarms of shoplifters emptying pharmacy shelves. If I needed new shoes, I could pop over to Nordstrom at the Westfield San Francisco Centre at Fifth and Market.
Market Street is an obstacle course of used free needles and damaged souls.
The number of friends who had stopped going into the city entirely — and switched to shopping in suburban malls — was unsettling, but tourists could help fill the gap.
This week, sadly, Nordstrom announced that it won’t renew its lease at the Westfield Centre.
The chief stores officer, Jamie Nordstrom, explained in a statement that “the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.”
That’s corporate-speak for: Our customers are afraid to go there.
I had almost gotten used to dodging panhandlers and homeless people as I went to and from work.
In 2015, I started writing about how much the city smelled. “Stench and the City” became a recurring theme.
Then-Mayor Ed Lee blamed the drought for the sour smells. ...
If a foreign power — or Republicans — had done to the City by the Bay what the ruling class has allowed to occur, voters would be outraged. Instead, they save their ire for Donald Trump, for all the good that does.
That liberal sense of moral superiority will be the death of the Special City. Years from now, when downtown feels like Detroit, San Franciscans will look at the closure of Nordstrom’s downtown store as the day the music died.
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