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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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Mark Farrell, Mayor Breed hit with cease-and-desist letters over use of S.F. City seal

Mission Local obtained a cease-and-desist letter by the clerk of the Board of Supervisors penned to mayoral candidate Mark Farrell. At issue: His purported misuse of the seal of the city of San Francisco.  The Information first reported that Mayor London Breed also received a cease-and-desist letter for purported misuse of the seal, which was also addressed to the city’s chief of protocol, Maryam Muduroglu.A third cease-and-desist letter was sent to the proprietor of a polymarket website offering the chance to bet on who will win the mayor’s race. In a Thursday evening email to members of the Board of Supervisors, longtime board clerk Angela Calvillo referred to this as “the most egregious” case. She said she expects to follow up with the site on Friday morning.  The cease-and-desist letters were penned by Calvillo in conjunction with the City Attorney’s […]

Karl The Fog October 25, 2024

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New policy approved on S.F. below-market-rate condos resale

It had been two years of stressful waiting. Amy and Simon Jansuk, have been waiting for a buyer to purchase their below-market-rate condo at 270 Valencia St. since 2022. City rules have limited the sale price of below-market-rate units, meaning owners might even lose money on such sales — Mission Local wrote about the Jansuks’ plight in 2022, detailing how the city had set their sale price at $74,000 less than they’d spent on the condo.But after legislation proposed by District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar, they will finally have a chance to make a profit. The Planning Commission today voted 5-1 to approve an ordinance to create a waiver specifically for some below-market-rate units — like the Jansuks’ condo — that were bought for a higher price than the city is now allowing them to sell for. The waiver will only apply to […]

Karl The Fog October 17, 2024

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S.F. youth groups want more juvenile protections from police

Youth advocates and community groups sent a joint letter to the San Francisco Police Commission on Wednesday requesting that a potential new policy on how police interact with juveniles further limit the use of handcuffs. It also asked that officers default to the least restrictive response possible when dealing with youths. At present, the draft policy gives officers discretion on whether to handcuff youths being taken to non-jail facilities. It allows youths to be handcuffed until a search can be conducted by their preferred gender of officer. Juveniles may also be handcuffed to a stationary object for a maximum of 30 minutes, with room for extensions. There is no other mention of when to use handcuffs.  The policy has long been planned in group meetings that have included police commissioners and other stakeholders, including the nine groups that signed onto today’s letter. The […]

Karl The Fog October 10, 2024

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Mission Local obtains list of 13 S.F. schools that may merge/close

Ahead of today’s scheduled 5 p.m. announcement, Mission Local has obtained the list of the San Francisco public schools that meet the district’s criteria for merger or closure. Three schools will potentially close, eight will potentially merge with another school and two schools may become “welcoming schools” for a closed school. The list follows: El Dorado is proposed to merge with Visitacion Valley with students moving to the Visitacion Valley campus; Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy is proposed to merge with Sanchez Elementary with the campus being repurposed as an early education center; Jean Parker Elementary is proposed to close with students attending Gordon J. Lau (Cantonese biliteracy) or John Yehall Chin (general education);  *Malcolm X Academy Elementary School is proposed to merge with Carver Elementary with students heading to the Carver campus; *Redding Elementary is proposed to be a welcoming school for Yick […]

Karl The Fog October 8, 2024

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Fire strikes S.F. public housing known for squatters, mismanagement

A one-alarm fire broke out on Missouri Street in the Potrero Hill public housing complex on Monday evening, according to the San Francisco Fire Department, which posted video of firefighters on the roof of an apartment, flames shooting through the ceiling.Lt. Mariano Elias, a department spokesperson, said the building was empty and that there were no injuries. The call “came in shortly after 7 p.m.,” he said, and firefighters saw “fire blowing out the windows” at the three-story building. “Upon arrival, all three floors of the housing were on fire. It was blowing through the roof.”Eight department vehicles were on scene, and smoke and ash filled the air as firefighters began removing charred wood from the newly blackened building — before tonight, the building was already scorched in a past fire. A fire at Missouri Street and Turner Terrace on […]

Karl The Fog October 1, 2024

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Underdog S.F. mayoral candidates take stage

Most of San Francisco’s mayoral race has centered on five candidates: Mayor London Breed, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, District 11 Supervisor Ahsha Safaí, former District 2 Supervisor and caretaker mayor Mark Farrell, and Levi Strauss heir and nonprofit founder Daniel Lurie.Barring a truly cataclysmic event, one of those five will win. They have the most name recognition, decades of political experience between them, sophisticated teams of campaigners, and gobs of cash. Together, the candidates or the PACs supporting them have raised $22.9 million — the other eight candidates in the race have just shy of $144,000.But it costs only $7,020 to run for mayor, and that has brought out a cohort of underdogs, striving for votes.Five of them got that chance on Saturday morning in the Mission, during a Latino-focused debate at Gray Area on Mission Street. The […]

Karl The Fog September 29, 2024

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