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S.F. police shoot, kill Dior guard turned alleged hit-and-run driver

San Francisco police shot and killed a purportedly armed man they say they tracked down — after he allegedly hit pedestrians and a cyclist with a car on Thursday evening. Assistant Chief David Lazar, who gave a press conference this morning, said the man was believed to be a security guard at Dior, and said he discovered a firearm “on the ground” at the scene that he believed belonged to the guard. He did not give any details about whether the man was armed at the time police shot him. Lazar also could not confirm how many police officers fired their weapons at the man. The driver was allegedly driving on the sidewalk around 6:30 p.m. at Kearny and Post streets and hit two pedestrians, an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old, Lazar said, in pursuit of a man on an electric bicycle. After hitting […]

Karl The Fog December 20, 2024

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Board rejects Mayor Breed’s final picks for S.F. commissions

The Board of Supervisors in a 5-4 vote today rejected Mayor London Breed’s nominations to two city commissions. The vote seemed to say: Leave it to the next mayor. “I think it is the obligation of this board to put our foot down and reject these, and let a new mayor nominate whoever he chooses,” said Board president Aaron Peskin. “I would rather give the new mayor a clean slate.” Breed had nominated former California Public Utilities Commission administrative law judge Joanna Gubman to the Board of Appeals, transit planner and Apple transportation product manager Sara Barz to the Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors, and attorney James Byrne to fill the Police Commission seat vacated by Debra Walker — who Breed recently appointed to the Arts Commission.The Board of Supervisors Rules Committee rejected all three nominations last week. Peskin said today […]

Karl The Fog December 17, 2024

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S.F. wins $1M settlement against gig firm WorkWhile

The San Francisco city attorney’s office announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with gig staffing company WorkWhile, the second worker classification victory this year from the city’s newly-formed Worker Protection Team. WorkWhile, a San Francisco-based gig company that connects workers with temp work, will pay $1 million to thousands of workers the city claimed were being denied rights and benefits. It will also permanently reclassify all its current and future workers, except delivery workers, as employees rather than independent contractors. The judgment came on Dec. 10 — about 10 months after San Francisco secured the country’s first injunction to require a gig company, in that case Qwick, to permanently reclassify its workers.WorkWhile has grown rapidly since its launch in 2020, with half a million workers now operating across 27 states, according to the city attorney’s office. Its workers are […]

Karl The Fog December 17, 2024

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S.F. nonprofit saves 16 units for low-income tenants in Mission

So here’s a good-news San Francisco story. Luis Zeron, who works at a bakery, and his wife Sandra Martinez, who works at McDonalds, paid $2,100 last month for a one-bedroom unit on 14th Street across from the Armory. Going forward, their rent will drop by 21 percent to $1,650. That is thanks to the Community Land Trust’s recent purchase of the two-story, 16-unit building unit at 320 14th St. where the couple lives. “We feel safer,” said Zeron, beaming and noting that the broken windows in the living room they have called home since 2018 have, since the Community Land Trust came in, been replaced.Luis Zeron (left) and his wife Sandra Martinez (right). Photo by Xueer Lu. Dec. 5, 2024.Yes, there is more work to do — there is still mold on their bathroom towel rack and the bathroom needs new light […]

Karl The Fog December 7, 2024

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No, S.F. doesn’t need to close schools. Its problems go deeper.

As a father of three children in a San Francisco public school slated for closure, it brings me no pleasure to tell you that much of what has been written about school closures has been facile. While the city doesn’t need to close schools, the San Francisco Unified School District is in an alarmingly precarious state. Its problems go so much deeper than a voluntary decision to cull schools that was curtailed at the 11th hour in October and led to the ouster of Superintendent Matt Wayne. The monomaniacal pursuit of this clearly misbegotten plan remains baffling.New Superintendent Maria Su may have the most difficult job in San Francisco right now; it is challenging to describe the state of the public school district’s finances and operational abilities without using language that should get you thrown out of a public school classroom. Mission […]

Karl The Fog December 2, 2024

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How much did your vote cost in the S.F. November election?

No matter who you voted for in November, there’s one thing that everyone could agree on: This was a costly election. Campaigns and political groups spent more than $72 million on different races and the 15 local ballot measures, trying to work their magic on a total of 522,265 registered voters. But how has their money worked for them? For Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie, quite well. Lurie, a first-time candidate who was bolstered by $16.2 million including outside spending, won with 55 percent of the vote (182,303 votes). The cost: $156.14 for each first-choice vote. That makes him by far the politician who spent the most on a dollar-per-vote basis. His rivals had much smaller war chests and spent much less per vote: London Breed and her allies spent $58.86 per vote, Aaron Peskin $34.27, and Mark Farrell $85.03, making Farrell, who finished fourth, […]

Karl The Fog November 27, 2024

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Video: S.F. Target security guard took cash from man, Tased and beat him

After Mission Local reported on a Target security guard beating San Francisco resident Shan Bowerman with a baton last week, additional onlooker video reveals what precipitated that beating: The guard, holding a Taser to Bowerman’s chest, forcibly took his money while he protested loudly. The guard Tases Bowerman in the video, takes the money — a few hundred dollars of a welfare payment by Bowerman’s reckoning — then strikes him in the face with the Taser. No one was arrested in the incident, but Bowerman was treated in an ambulance. The new footage obtained by Mission Local today corroborates Bowerman’s claims last week that the security guard had intervened in a dispute he had with his girlfriend, forcibly took the money from him, Tased him and then handed the wad of bills to Bowerman’s purported girlfriend. The video could lead to assault charges against […]

Karl The Fog November 9, 2024

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Target security guard in downtown S.F. beats man repeatedly with baton

A private security guard working for the Metreon Target store struck a San Francisco man at least 10 times with a baton on Friday evening, after the man punched him in the face for allegedly taking his money. Before the punch and subsequent beating, Shan Bowerman, 56, said the guard forcibly took his cash from his pocket and used a stun gun on him twice.Bowerman said the guard took his money after siding with Bowerman’s girlfriend in a dispute over money: The girlfriend tried to take Bowerman’s cash and said it was hers; Bowerman said the money was his and she was stealing it.Part of the incident was captured on video, on the crowded street corner at Mission and Fourth streets.  Just before 6:30 p.m., Bowerman was following two security guards in International Protective Service, Inc. uniforms from the northwest corner […]

Karl The Fog November 2, 2024

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S.F. police union head flips off activist in heated exchange

After an activist approached Mayor London Breed on the street Wednesday, asking her to comment on a San Francisco woman who was slammed against the wall by police officers after jaywalking in July, the head of the city’s police union flipped off the activist with two middle fingers. Lt. Tracy McCray, the head of the San Francisco Police Officers Association and a longtime ally of Breed, was walking alongside the mayor on Taraval Street Wednesday when Adroa Anderson, aka DoggTown Dro on social media, approached Breed.In a video, Anderson begins asking Breed about Christiana Porter, the Black 34-year-old mother of five who was walking on Geary Boulevard on July 29 when police approached her and slammed her against a wall. Porter suffered a separated shoulder and a concussion.About two minutes after he first approaches Breed, who ignores him and eventually drives […]

Karl The Fog October 31, 2024

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S.F. residents to get refund after $24M Recology overcharge

San Francisco residents are due for some payback after embattled refuse collector Recology admitted that it incorrectly calculated its rates and would have overcharged city customers by some $24 million.This came about, the company says, due to accounting errors that led to the rate being set too high in Rate Year 2024, which ran from Oct. 1, 2023 to Sept. 30, 2024. This discrepancy came to light at the Sept. 30 meeting of the little-known Refuse Rate Board, a body created after 71 percent of voters approved Proposition F in June 2022. San Francisco residents will see a credit on their November bills, with an average benefit of $18 per year for two years, according to Jay Liao, the city’s refuse rates administrator.  “In the wake of the public corruption scandal between Mohammed Nuru and Recology and the Parks Alliance, I brought […]

Karl The Fog October 29, 2024

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