Got in this morning to this email from SFPD. I love how even SFPD bulletins have personality in this town:
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SFPD officers responded to the area of 19th St / Valencia on 7/17/11 at approximately 1215am for a crowd of people in the street. The crowd of people was a protest march that continued to the area of 16th/Mission. Officers monitored the crowd. No arrests were made. There were reports of garbage being thrown into the street and several newspaper racks being overturned.
The protest ended at approximately 0100am. Officers will continue to patrol the area.
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I have no further info. Thanks for your patience.
Its bed time. Good night
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Glad it was peaceful and no one was arrested, but what was being protested? We’ve been hearing a lot about the protest planned for today, which starts at the Center for Political Education on Valencia and marches down to Trader Joe’s. That one is organized by several farmworkers’ rights groups that have been pressuring large fast-food and grocery chains to demand better treatment of agricultural workers from their suppliers.
But this one’s a mystery. No signs of it so far on the interwebs.
Any word, Mission residents?
UPDATE: A reader tells us that it was about the man who was shot by SFPD late yesterday afternoon, in the Bayview.
I’m new to all this protesting stuff. Its quite interesting and I look forward to future protesting , and I give all my support a 100%.
It was a protest over a man police shot in Bayview. “SF PD. Shot a man today!” was their chant.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/17/MNVU1KBGHI.DTL
Unless there was some other man they shot I don’t know about. Amazing what the SFPD have to put up with but prolly avoided a lot of trouble by providing protest support. Two cruisers led the way, followed by a paddy wagon and at least one other cruiser with officers walking along with the protesters.
Were the hipsters protesting the weekend bridge and tunnel crowd?