Photo by Christine Mai-Duc. Photo from 2012.

Police reported that at 6 p.m. on Tuesday a 54-year-old man and his 17-year-old son were riding Muni on Mission Street when the father noticed two teens—anywhere from 17 to 18—peering into his son’s backpack. His son was sleeping.

The man confronted the suspects and his son woke up to join the struggle. One suspect hit the father in the head with brass knuckles, cutting his head and ear. He was treated for non-life-threatening injuries

The suspects jumped off the bus on Mission and 21st streets and fled with the 17-year-old’s cell phone. No arrests have been made.

Crime is trauma and the county offers different services. Here is a link to a page of services.

Victims of violent crime can contact the Trauma Recover Center at UCSF.

I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.

As founder and an editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.

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