Lee Heidhues 7.9.2023
It is reprehensible. San Francisco cops have nothing better to do than harass and traumatize scores of young people engaged in skateboarding.
The bullying fascist tactics displayed by the San Francisco Police Department are actions people have come to expect in Putin’s Russia as he cracks down on anti-war protestors.
Local cops from the City’s Mission District station harassed, bullied, handcuffed and loaded into police vans scores of young skateboarders.
These young adults have been unnecessarily traumatized by the agents of the State. Who knows what impact this fascist type treatment will have on their psyches as they mature into adulthood and form opinions about Authority.
Excerpted from Mission Local 7.8.2023
San Francisco police officers in riot helmets rushed into and blockaded intersections this evening near Dolores Park to shut down the annual “hill bomb” where hundreds of people gather to watch skaters and bikers zoom down Dolores Street.
The hill bomb is an annual event that sees skaters from across the Bay Area come into the Mission to skate down Dolores Street.
As of 8:45 p.m., SFPD had kenneled dozens of skaters and young people, keeping them trapped between two rows of police officers armed with batons and riot helmets.
“Those are just kids!” standers-by shouted.
“We don’t have rights!” said someone else.
A sergeant on the scene said they will arrest between 50 to 60 of the skaters and viewers.
Sabir, a 14-year old who was in the group before it was corralled, said the police trapped the group between Dolores and Guerrero streets.
They were “trying to trap us, I ran away, and someone tried to hit me,” he said. “He swung [the baton] at me and said ‘Move!’ and now all of them are under arrest.”
Sabir said the majority of the group are teenagers.
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