This is the scene on Fremont Street as the San Francisco Bomb Squad is investigating a suspicious package near the TransBay Terminal.
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Last I saw, nearby office buildings were being evacuated by the SFPD.
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MUNI Supervisor Says the “Suspicious Package” at the Transbay Terminal Now is “Bigger than a Backpack”
Monday, September 28th, 2009News Conference of the Year: Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell
Monday, April 20th, 2009San Francisco gets more than its fair share of news conferences for a variety of reasons, but this one on Wednesday looks to be memorable. This whole issue about Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and the death of SFPD Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell in 1970 was quite the hot potatoe last month, as this bit from the Demian Bulwa demonstrates.
Get a sneak peak of the tenor of the people behind the news conference here.
Maybe a lot of people will show up this wednesday, maybe not. We’ll see.
1970 Cold Case to Be Explored at San Francisco News Conference on April 23; Evidence in Bombing Murder Points to Weather Underground
Campaign for Justice for Victims of Weather Underground Terrorism Urges Probe of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Pressure is mounting for an expanded probe of Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and their alleged roles in the 1970 bombing murder of a San Francisco policeman. Larry Grathwohl, former FBI informant in the Weather Underground and author of Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen, will repeat his sworn testimony that points to the involvement of the Weather Underground in the bombing murder of Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell at a 12:30 p.m. News Conference on Thursday, April 23, 2009, at the Marriott Courtyard San Francisco Downtown, 299 Second Street, in the Rincon Hill room. Grathwohl says that he was at a meeting where Ayers said that his wife Dohrn had planted the bomb
The San Francisco Police Officers Association has publicly supported the call for a renewed investigation, saying the evidence points to Ayers and Dohrn as the perpetrators.
The News Conference is being sponsored by the Campaign for Justice for Victims of Weather Underground Terrorism, a project of investigative journalist Cliff Kincaid’s America’s Survival, Inc. “Forty years is too long to wait for justice,” Kincaid said. “Let’s bring the cop-killers to justice.” Kincaid’s web site www.usasurvival.org has exclusive reports on the bombing and Communist Cuban support for the Weather Underground.
The cold case of Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell, killed in 1970 when a bomb exploded at the San Francisco Park Police Station, has been reopened by law enforcement authorities. Grathwohl, Cliff Kincaid, and retired San Francisco Police Sergeant Jim Pera, one of the first on the scene of the bombing, will discuss the McDonnell case, the violent history of the Weather Underground, and the reemergence of its members in political and campus organizing activities. Ayers/Dohrn “comrade” and Weather Underground member Mark Rudd is on a speaking tour in the Bay Area.
SOURCE America’s Survival, Inc.
The San Francisco Bomb Squad is Having a Busy 2009
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009The San Francisco Bomb Squad seems to be having a busy 2009 already, non? Yesterday evening, another incident backed up traffic quite a bit in the area around Kezar Stadium, with a parade of blocked vehicles reaching all the way to the interesting intersection of Fell and Masonic.
SFWeekly Snitch Matthew Smith has some info about the large blast that resulted.
When the bomb squad doesn’t send in the robot, they have the option to use this guy. It takes quite a while to get this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle outfit on. Click to expand:
Have a safe 2009.
[UPDATE: Apparently, the suspicious object wasn't that suspicious at all.]
San Francisco Bomb Squad Responds to a Suspicious Package at Chinese Consulate
Friday, January 16th, 2009Well there was a report of a Suspicious Package Outside Chinese Consulate at Geary and Laguna so the SFPD sent over some officers and the bomb squad.
The passersby in Japantown favored sending a bomb destroying robot, but this fellow from the bomb squad stepped up, donned a massive helmet, and sauntered on over to the item that tied up traffic all over.
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Just another day for the SFPD…
The San Francisco Bomb Squad Takes a Slow Drive Through Golden Gate Park
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Details are a little sketchy, but the San Francisco Bomb Squad has just picked up a “package” and is taking it on a slow tour through Golden Gate Park. [UPDATE: The whole affair ended "peacefully" per KGO-TV]
Why the scenic route? So if it goes kaboom, it won’t hurt you all.
This was the scene at 6:30 PM, near the de Young Museum. Click to expand:
The starting location on Carl between Frederick and Williard:
Sarge in the front, mortar in the back:
The sticker on the red metal bucket says: “I HEART EXPLOSIVES.” (Don’t we all.) From a couple hundred feet away:
A bald eagle, sticks of dynamite and the Golden Gate Bridge:
Keep up the good work, San Francisco Bomb Squad!
