The MFM have taken sides. Locked in a fifty-year-old paradigm, the media have happily promoted the narrative that all cops are racists who gun down innocent black schoolchildren at will, and minorities who break the law are only stealing bread to feed their starving families. You would have to have a heart of stone not to be amused when their embrace of this narrative comes round and bites them in the butt.
“At least a dozen robberies of television news crews and still photographers that has plagued the San Francisco Bay Area in recent years. Camera crews from major Bay Area television stations and photographers from two newspapers have been robbed of their pricey gear. Two have been pistol whipped. An Oakland Tribune photographer lost five cameras in two incidents.”
The police have made no arrests, but you really can’t blame them if they haven’t been trying too hard. BTW, this is interesting information about the Sheriff of San Francisco that I was previously unaware of.
The Sheriff of San Francisco, Ross Mirkarimi, [is] himself a violent criminal who cannot carry a gun because of his domestic-violence past.
It was certainly very progressive of the people of San Francisco to elect a criminal as their chief law enforcement officer.
The inmates of San Francisco have a penchant for sending their whackos up the food chain to run the asylum. Clearly, there are not nearly enough sane people in the place to overwhelm the political system and get its government trolley back on the tracks. I wonder when the city council will decide it is OK for people to urinate on them during the public comment portion of the council meetings.
Only if the ones doing the urinating are on the Government Approved Victims List.
The Progressives will blame the robberies on the NRA.
Having spent a little time in the Bay Area before, during, and slightly after the K. Steinle murder, I followed the case a little bit closer than your average current events obsessive.
Ross Mirkarimi is not only the current Sheriff for the City and County of San Francisco but a former Board Of Supervisors [de facto city council] member prior to his election as sheriff. He was not supported by the sheriff’s union in his election and his actual law enforcement background is a bit sketchy (essentially he was the ROTC equivalent of law enforcement in an even more distant life). Yes, he has POST certification, but it’s not like he was in law enforcement for a significant part of his career, like most sheriffs and police chiefs.
Like most things San Francisco, his election was governed less by the desire to put the most qualified person in the job but as a political exercise in moving up the food chain, as Heliotrope noted. Now it comes to light that the sheriff is not just the equivalent of the bailiff on TV courtroom shows, but someone to which is entrusted actual responsibilities. Of course the policies which he defends and upholds are still supported by the populace, so the likelihood they will change soon is remote.
This is, after all, the city that has decided that the solution for public urination is to paint problem areas with liquid-repelling paint rather than expend the effort to cite problem offenders who create the need for such paint in the first place.