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Female hot dog vendor tackled, handcuffed by SF police

Video obtained by Mission Local shows San Francisco police tackle and handcuff a woman on the Embarcadero this morning as her young daughter cried hysterically — during a confiscation of her hot dog stand. The woman could be heard saying “Ya, me voy, me voy!” or, “I’m leaving, I’m leaving!”Onlookers filmed as the woman struggled on the pavement with two officers who were pulling her arms behind her back to handcuff her. A worker in a yellow vest blocked onlookers from approaching or filming up close.  “It’s ‘cause she fought with the officers,” another worker in an unmarked yellow vest told an onlooker as he rolled the hotdog stand away. “These are being confiscated by the Department of Public Health.” A witness told Mission Local that the woman was upset about her cart being confiscated and officers were holding her back as […]

Karl The Fog September 8, 2024

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Vea cómo se postulan: Líderes sindicales apoyan al candidato a la alcaldía Ahsha Safaí en Duboce Park

Read in EnglishUnos 50 sindicalistas se reunieron en el parque Duboce a primera hora de la mañana del sábado para apoyar la candidatura de Ahsha Safaí a la alcaldía.Safaí, supervisor del Distrito 11 y candidato a la alcaldía, había trabajado como director político del sindicato SEIU Local 87, que representa a los trabajadores de limpieza, durante ocho años, de 2008 a 2016.El sábado recibió el apoyo de tres sindicatos: SEIU Local 87 (poca sorpresa), United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 y Local 648. Con el sonido de fondo de los trenes Muni pasando por la avenida Duboce y los perros correteando y atrapando pelotas en sus paseos matutinos, los líderes sindicales que representan a trabajadores de supermercados, educadores, ingenieros fijos y conserjes pronunciaron discursos sobre cómo Safaí se ganó su apoyo.“En el momento álgido de la pandemia, no tuve […]

Karl The Fog September 8, 2024

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Suspect in anti-Black hate crimes is a Black woman, SFPD says

San Francisco police on Friday named a suspect in a series of racist incidents that targeted the home of a longtime Black Alamo Square resident and dog walker, Terry Williams, whose family had said they felt abandoned by the city in the aftermath of the alleged hate crimes.April Martin Chartrand, a 67-year-old Black city resident, left a series of racist packages at the home of beloved dog walker Williams, according to a communiqué sent by the police department today asking for the public’s help in locating the suspect.Williams said he got a call today about Chartrand from the police chief, and upon seeing her image realized she is a neighbor and also lives on Alamo Square. He says he had one negative interaction with her years ago, which he believes resulted in Chartrand’s resentment toward him. About five or six years […]

Karl The Fog September 7, 2024

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District 11 candidates weigh in on upcoming school closures

Welcome back to the “Meet the Candidates” series for District 11, where we ask each candidate to answer one question every week leading up to the election. They must answer the question in 100 words or less. We will link to longer answers. With District 11 Supervisor Ahsha Safaí termed out and running for mayor, seven candidates have thrown their hats in the ring to represent the Excelsior, Oceanview and the Outer Mission.On Sept. 18, the San Francisco Unified School District will announce the list of schools recommended for closure, merger, or co-location for the 2025-26 school year.  Such a move is part of SFUSD’s Resource Alignment Initiative, which is an ambitious plan to improve student outcomes by creating a new school staffing model, generating more revenue for school properties, reorganizing the central office, investing in priority district-wide programs, and creating […]

Karl The Fog September 6, 2024

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Folio Books staff to bring Noe Valley Books to same space in October

Four former staff members at the defunct Folio Books are working to open a new bookstore — named Noe Valley Books — at the same location as the shuttered neighborhood staple as soon as October. There has been a bookstore at at 3957 24th St. between Sanchez and Noe for nearly four decades — “the bookstore across from Whole Foods,” as locals say. Phoenix Books was at the site for 28 years until 2013. Then came Folio Books, which stayed in business for a decade, but then closed its doors in February this year. Isaiah Scandrette, co-owner of the nascent Noe Valley Books, started working at Folio Books in May 2021. He said he didn’t realize how much people loved the bookstore until the announcement of its closure.  “People were coming in tears, asking ‘Did we not do enough?’” Scandrette recalled. “That really […]

Karl The Fog September 6, 2024

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Chief Scott put on spot at press conference on anti-Black incidents

Christiana Porter, the alleged jaywalker slammed to a wall by San Francisco police officer Josh McFall in late July, said she continues to live in fear due to the incident. “There is no way I should have been brutalized the way I was for merely walking across the street — in the crosswalk,” said Porter, a 34 year-old Black mother of five at a Thursday morning press conference held at the Third Baptist Church.Porter today said she feared that her four daughters might be targeted while walking to school or that her non-verbal son might be unable to communicate if faced with a similar situation. “It shouldn’t have to take someone being shot, someone dying, for an outcry.”The press conference drew government officials and community members to denounce a series of anti-Black incidents in San Francisco. Other community members shared stories […]

Karl The Fog September 5, 2024

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Do you support charter schools?

閱讀中文版Welcome back to the “Meet the Candidates” series for the school board, where we ask each candidate one question every two weeks. They must answer the question in 100 words or fewer. We will link to longer answers.Eleven candidates are vying for four seats on the city’s seven-person school board. The election will take place on Nov. 5. Non-citizen parents of children living in the city are permitted to vote in school board elections, and can find information on doing so here. On Aug. 23, then-President of the San Francisco Unified School District school board Lainie Motamedi resigned, more than two years after being appointed by Mayor London Breed, citing “personal and health reasons.” That same day, Mayor Breed swore in Phil Kim to serve on the board, and Vice President Matt Alexander became President.Kim’s extensive background in charter education […]

Karl The Fog September 4, 2024

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SF poised to beat DOJ to the punch, ban rent-fixing software

The city of San Francisco has lost over 60,000 residents since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic according to the census (3,660 in 2020; 55,136 in 2021; 4,605 in 2022). There’s been a bit of a resurgence since then; 2023 shows a net gain of a whole 276 people. But still, that’s a lot of missing persons in a city of a little over 800,000. Why is it that rent payments, while still lower than the recent peak in 2019, are still so high? Is there someone we can blame?On Tuesday afternoon, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors moved one step closer to answering that question, by passing an ordinance authored by Supervisor Aaron Peskin banning the sale or use of any algorithmic device that sets, or even  recommends, rents or vacancy levels for residential properties in San Francisco.  If it’s […]

Karl The Fog September 4, 2024

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