Too much to write about today. First, District Attorney Kamala D. Harris sent out a press release assuring all that the “reign of terror” was over and 30-year-old Bobby Brown was charged with 15 felonies from four stabbings including this week’s stabbing on the J-Church and September’s stabbing of the 11-year-old on the 49. My thought: the DA writes better headlines than moi.
The two other stabbings, according to the press release: One on Nov. 14 involving a 25-year-old woman at 10:45 a.m. in the area of Sutter and Jones Streets. “It is alleged that Brown walked by a woman he did not know, he asked for her for money, she kept walking, and he came up to her and stabbed her twice in the waist. ”
The next on November 26 at 8 p.m. on Leavenworth and Golden Gate Streets. “It is alleged that a woman unknown to Brown walked by him with her three kids, Brown approached the woman, spun her around and stabbed her three times in the back.”
Mmmm. It does begin to sound terrifying. More details in the Chronicle here.
Onto Manny Fernandez’s piece in the NYT about the NYC Council banning roll-down gates and wondering if it is an idea heading our way. “…the unnoticed wallpaper of New York at night,” he calls them. Lovely story and reminded me of one of our own that we had yet to put up.
I have been storing it away in PENDING as one safeguards something they want everyone to take the time to enjoy. So, here it is, Alissa Figueroa’s Waste Land, on her visit to a recycling center.
Also notable in the NYT is Nina Bernstein’s piece on reports finding the country’s immigrant detention system a mess. “…non citizens including legal immigrants are held unnecessarily and transferred heedlessly in an expensive immigration system that denies them basic fairness.”
That’s especially true in Northern California because the Immigration Customs and Enforcement has no detention centers in the region and instead rents private space at places like the Yuba County Jail and transfers immigrants out of state when those cells are filled, according to Allison Davenport, legal services director for Centro Legal de la Raza.
It’s a practice, the report found, that makes it difficult for the person to get legal counsel or present evidence of their right to be in the United States. This happened recently in San Francisco when a 16-year-old in was picked up and transferred to Portland.
And, on a better note, Lily Mihalik writes about a Toy Drive for Bernal Dwellings this Sunday, “Move over Santa Claus. Thizz Nation is in the house.”
Finally, Shalwah Evans is back from her travels and files this Dress Code from la playa.
Until tomorrow, lc