Posts Tagged ‘assault’
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
Uh, isn’t this sort of big news?
So how come nobody’s talking about it, except for Camden Avery of Uppercasing, The Upper Haight Blog?
“What happened, according to the SFPD’s Park Station statement, was that at shortly after 11 PM Friday night, two uniformed officers in a cruiser stopped in the street to investigate a man lying down in the road. When they approached, he jumped up and punched one of the officers in the head. According to a security guard at Whole Foods, who witnessed the incident, the assailant called for help from a group of street kids nearby.”
Read all about it.
A hippie SFPD cop with “Stealie” clip identifier on his “assault weapon*”
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*As defined by Senator DiFi. (Of course most people would call a run-of-the-mill, police-issue handgun and handgun, but not DiFi.)
Tags: 2012, arrested, assault, bay area, blog, booksmith, california, Camden Avery, cop, cops, december 7, haight, jumped, kids, Park station, San Francisco, SFPD, shrader, stanyan, street, uppercasing
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Monday, March 5th, 2012
Saturday night crime in the DivCo:
“I obviously locked/alarmed/blahblah’d it, but am still feeling very upset about it. The ipad was a gift from my father and not something I could dream about affording on my own. AND, more frustratingly, the dude who took it had just hit on me like five minutes beforehand. I don’t know. I guess if anyone sees an ipad with a TARDIS background on craigslist, PM me? Whatever.”
“I was outbound, so I was right in front of the Honeybaked ham store. I honestly pretty rarely use my ipad in public, but it was the end of a very long day, the bus said it was going to take 30+ minutes, and the dude who robbed me had hit on like ten minutes prior to it happening (needless to say, I was charmed), so I didn’t really expect him to, you know. Punch me.”
Tags: 2012, apple, assault, attack, bay area, bus, california, craigslist, divco, divisadero, driver, geary, ham, hit, Honeybaked, ipad, mta, Muni, punch, reddit, San Francisco, SFMTA, SFPD, tardis
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Four-star Yelp-rated Dottie’s True Blue Cafe has lost its lease up in the Tenderloin Proper, so, per Paolo Lucchesi and via The Tender, it’s going to be heading south of Market to the Tenderloin Annex.
Looks as if Sixth Street / Mid Market / the corrupt Twitterloin will go from this:
Via Bluoz - click to expand
To this:
Via Barbie
Come December…
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Combien, combien, combien de temps?
Tags: 011, 2011, 522, 6th, alley, arrested, assault, attack, battery, bay area, blog, blood, breakfast, cafe, caight, california, chronicle, Dottie's, Dottie's True Blue Cafe, jones, market, mid market, Paolo Lucchesi, passion, passion cafe, police, San Francisco, SFPD, south, street, tender, tenderloin, tourist, tourists, True Blue, twitterloin
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Monday, October 31st, 2011
Famous San Francisco street photographer Justin Beck has bounced back from losing his camera on the mean Streets of San Francisco, looks like. He’s got another Nikon to work with so that’s nice.
Check it, a canary yellow streetcar.
Is this an album cover?
Via JRB – click to expand
Poor pooch. Daijoobu, daijobu. Gambate!
Tags: 1057, 1948, 2011, afraid, assault, balboa, battery, bay area, black power salute, broken, california, camera, cameras, canary, Cincinnati, cop, d90, Daijoobu, digital, district, dog, dslr, Gambate, grate, green, hands, hippie, hipster, images, inner, justin beck, justin ryan beck, leash, Muni, nervous, Nervous Pup, nikon, occupy, Photographer, photographs, photography, police, richmond, robbery, San Francisco, SFPD, slr, Station, steal, stoeln, stolen, subway, theft, thief, twitter, yellow
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Nine years and something months later, the SFPD makes an arrest:
“SFPD ARREST SUSPECT IN 10 YEAR OLD BRUTAL COLD CASE SEXUAL ASSAULT
11-103 Posted Date: 9/27/2011
The San Francisco Police Department’s Sex Crimes Detail Cold Case Unit made an arrest in a 10 year old sexual assault case. The incident occurred on November 6, 2001 in San Francisco, CA and the suspect was arrested on September 26, 2011 in San Jose, CA. The victim in this incident was offered a ride from the Mission District to her home. The three suspects then drove with the victim to Golden Gate Park and parked their car in an isolated dark area of the park were they sexually assaulted and robbed her. The victim was then ordered out of the suspect vehicle and had to flag down a passing motorist for assistance.
Due to the diligent work of the Sex Crimes Unit and Violence Reduction Team, in addition to the advent in today’s technology, the San Francisco Police Department was able to identify the suspect as Vinh Q. Chung, Vietnamese, Male, 10/26/1981. Chung was taken into custody at his home by members of the San Francisco Police Department’s Violent Reduction Team. He is currently being held at the County Jail in lieu of 5 million dollars bail.”
How about that?
Tags: (CASE), 2001, 2011, America, arrest, asian, assault, bail, bay area, california, cold, Cold Case Unit, cops, Crimes, department, dept., Detail, district, golden gate park, limitations, male, mission, mission district, November 6, police, robbed, robbery, San Francisco, san francisco police department, sex, Sex Crimes Detail, Sex Crimes Unit, sexual, SFPD, statue, statute, unit, vietnam, vietnamese, Vinh Chung, Vinh Q. Chung, Violence Reduction Team, Violent Reduction Team
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Let’s go on patrol with the San Francisco Guardian Angels near 7th Street just south of Market (aka the quieter part of our corrupt Twitterloin):
“We ran into two women that were showing off their body parts so JD stopped the group and we went over there to check it out and see if there was anything we could do. But not too long later, Sparky got assaulted with some keys and we had to call the police at this point.”
Here’s the aftermath:
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Now, what gives the San Francisco Guardian Angels the right to impose their values, you know, regarding issues such as the appropriate amount of body-part-showing-off you should be doing, in San Francisco?
I don’t know.
*Can you imagine? Like, what if these GA’s started patrolling the Castro or red carpet walks in front of the Academy Awards?
Tags: 2011, 7th, 9/11, alley, assault, battery, bay area, body, california, call, civic center, cops, guardian angels, jd, keys, law, loin, market, mid market, Muslim, parts, police, prostitution, San Francisco, sfga, SFPD, sharia, soma, sparky, street, Tibetan National Uprising, twitter, twitterloin, whores, wOMAN, Women
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Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Do you know how much bad art we pay for? I mean, there’s lots and lots of (government-funded and government-mandated) bad art around town, let me tell you.
OTOH, popular photographer Justin Ryan Beck does his good art, his street photography, for free for one and all – isn’t that nice?
Or least it was nice, until yesterday, when the digital camera he was using got stolen out of his hands in the Richmond District at four-something PM in the afternoon:
“I’m OK but was just robbed at the corner of Arguello and Balboa. Talked to cops. Time for a new camera I guess. :/”
Here’s his last photo. It appears he’ll be on a break for a while.
Oh well.
How can we get a DSLR, preferably a new Nikon along with a wide anglish lens or two, back into the hands of JRB, you know, where it rightfully belongs?
Tags: assault, balboa, battery, broken, cameras, digital, district, dslr, hands, images, inner, justin beck, justin ryan beck, nikon, Photographer, photographs, photography, police, richmond, robbery, SFPD, slr, Station, stoeln, theft, thief, twitter
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
This has gone back and forth for a while, but today, the owner of the Passion Cafe has made a commitment to staying on 6th Street and operating business as usual with no plans to sell.
So this photo is now out-of-date:
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Here it is, straight from the horse’s mouth:
“Thank you, all.
After the wonderful altruistic support we’ve had since and before the incident at Passion Cafe, we’ve decided against selling the restaurant.
Our initial goal was to create a change for the betterment of the residents in the Sixth Street corridor. After 35 years of building South of Market there had been one continuing desire and that was to bring change to Sixth Street which was festering throughout the SOMA neighborhood; as contractors, we took the most blighted building on the Street and we accomplished our goal and have encouraged many new businesses to use us as a model to bring their ideas to the Mid-Market, Sixth Street corridor.
No one could have predicted the economy, consequently we decided to operate Passion Cafe and we’ve had much success and have been lauded from State Senator Mark Leno and have received awards from City, State and Federal entities, too many to mention (except, thank you Supervisor Kim, S.F. Travel, CVE, Mayors Gavin Newsom and Ed Lee, Urban Solutions). The show of gratitude has been humbling.
It’s ironic that on the morning of the incident, I had come early to have someone hang a for sale sign early in the day as to be safe not to injure anyone below, if not for that I would never have been the recipient of a sad, deranged attacker. We had come to that decision feeling very proud of our accomplishment. We’ve survived, in large part, because of our supporters.
After a confusing period, I would like to put all speculation to rest and again, thank everyone for their continued support and encouragement. Passion Cafe will remain, amongst our new neighbors, from Burning Man to Twitter to the International Museum of American Art to all the other eateries we’ve encouraged to move to the new, vibrant Sixth Street and Mid-Market.
Please continue your patience, big things are on their way.”
Tags: 2011, 6th, agent, alley, arrested, assault, attack, battery, bay area, blood, burning man, cafe, caight, california, ed lee, for sale, gavin newsom, International Museum of American Art, Jane Kim, mark leno, market, Mayor, mid market, passion, passion cafe, police, sale, San Francisco, Senator, SFPD, shawlandia, soma, south, state, street, Supervisor, twitter, twitterloin, Urban Solutions
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Well let’s see here, the Passion Cafe was for sale, which was big news in EaterSF, Grub Street and LiveSOMA, and then it wasn’t, as you can see from Bluoz, and now, it’s for sale again, as of yesterday.
See? A new phone number for the listing and everything:
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What does all this mean?
I know not.
Anyway, here’s the listing.
“Listing View: Rooftop French bistro in a single story historical building – san francisco, california”
If you’re interested, the number is 415 920-3614.
Tags: 2011, 6th, alley, arrested, assault, attack, battery, bay area, blood, cafe, caight, california, for sale, market, mid market, passion, passion cafe, police, San Francisco, SFPD, shawlandia, street, twitterloin
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Per Bluoz, the Passion Cafe is no longer for sale – looks as if the owner is going to stick it out in Lower Shawlandia.
See? The phone number’s been covered on both sides, ergo Not For Sale No Mo:
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And LiveSoMA has all the recent deets on Sixth Street in another lengthy post.
Will a Restaurant Row replace Shawlandia at some point down the road?
Who knows, anything is possible…
Tags: 2011, 6th, alley, arrested, assault, attack, battery, bay area, blood, cafe, caight, california, for sale, market, mid market, passion, police, San Francisco, SFPD, shwalandia, street, twitterloin
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