Good afternoon! Here’s the latest:
The recent SFPD drug raid on Market and Van Ness was a social media hit, and yielded 40 arrests—but zero charges. Joe Eskenazi interviewed veteran cops and lawyers about the raid’s problems, and found out why the tough-on-crime DA’s office isn’t standing behind the police this time.
After cops shot at a gun-waving Outer Sunset man March 8, the SFPD said that the suspect, Dmitri Hochstatter, may have wounded himself. His attorney says Hochstatter, who is charged with five felonies, never discharged his gun.
Artist Alejandra Rubio was sixteen when the Mission Market building at 22nd and Mission burned, and she’s been drawing the image ever since. Now she’s collecting neighbors’ memories of the building to create a new print and art project. Participate here, and see the back story here.
More soon,
Sara
Latest News
Forty arrests, zero charges: SFPD raid was a dud. But not on social media.
“It sure sounds like the DA was saying that the cops just violated 40 people’s rights.”
Defense attorney disputes SFPD claim that gun-wielding Outer Sunset man shot himself
“That simply does not comport with reality.”
10 years after fire, artist gathers memories of a burnt building
“We were raised to see the neighborhood as our home.”
Back Story
Who should make a killing off a lethal Mission fire?
“I would wake up in the night, screaming, ‘Fire! Fire! Fire!’”
SNAP
Patrulla
by Michael Santiago
Events
Today: San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards Gala, Victoria Theatre, March 31, 6-10PM
Tomorrow: A History of Housing Policy in SF, with Conor Dougherty, at Manny’s, April 1, 6-7PM