Trump malicious “Stick of dynamite” blows up weather center

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.18.2025

How tone deaf is the Felon President Trump. A totally cruel malevolent luddite with no concept of the danger fossil fuels increasingly threatens the longevity of Planet Earth.

The rainstorm season is about to hit San Francisco.

Out of some warped sense of political animus Trump wants to dismantle and destroy one of the premier weather monitoring agencies. The National Center for Atmospheric Research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research

Why? It’s based in Blue Colorado. An American State which has vigorously battled the Felon Trump. It is mind boggling that the spineless Republicans continue to bow down before this abhorrent man.

Excerpted from The Hill 12.18.2025

A Democratic senator involved in the negotiations over passing a five-bill package of appropriations bills before Christmas said that Donald Trump’s attempt to dismantle a premier weather and climate center based in Boulder, Colo., was like a “stick of dynamite” that exploded any chance of a bipartisan breakthrough on spending.

A potential deal to fund large swaths of the federal government, including the Departments of Defense and Health and Human Services, collapsed on Thursday night after Colorado senators demanded that Congress stop President Trump’s efforts to dismantle a key climate agency.

**Out of some warped sense of political animus Trump wants to dismantle and destroy one of the premier weather monitoring agencies. The National Center for Atmospheric Research.**

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a leading Democratic voice on climate issue, called the research a “global crown jewel of science” that “helps us learn a great deal about whether which matters a great deal to everyone.”

Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet (D) and John Hickenlooper (D) objected to moving forward with the so-called minibus spending package that, if enacted into law, would result in 85 to 90 percent of the federal government being funding through September of 2026.

But Bennet and Hickenlooper took the lead in bringing the package to a dead halt by objecting to an agreement to set up date and amendment votes on the Senate floor.

Trump move to dismantle climate agency blows up Senate funding deal

It’s only rock ‘n roll. At 82 Rolling Stone Keith Richards likes it

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.13.2025

I have been listening to the Rolling Stones since I bought my first of many Stones LPs ‘Out of our Heads’ in 1965.

Stones guitarist Keith Richards has gone from rock ‘n roll bad boy drug addict to being featured in the Wall Street Journal.

Written up in the WSJ the reporter talks about the Stones affinity for Chess Records House of Blues in Chicago and how the music of Black blues artists influenced the Stones creativity.

The Stones and the reciprocal love from House of Blues was memorialized in the 1997 CD ‘Paint it Blue – Songs of the Rolling Stones’. 13 Stones songs performed by Black blues artists.

I think the best piece on the CD is Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown cover for Ventilator Blues.

Keith Richards ‘Ventilator Blues’ Live in Vancouver 1972

Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal 12.13.2025 – Rich Cohen

Solving the mystery of the guitarist’s longevity may be our best hope of aging gracefully.

In America, the average man can expect to live 75.8 years. Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts had gone five years past that and was still playing for audiences shortly before he died in 2021. Stones founder Brian Jones died young in his swimming pool, but several of the band’s other iconic members, from Ronnie Wood, 78, to Bill Wyman, 89, have won the battle with the actuarial tables. Mick Jagger, the demonic frontman, was barely slowed by the replacement of his aortic valve in 2019. An octogenarian, Mick can still be seen dancing on the ashes of Western Civilization.

And yet, for some reason, it is the band’s rhythm guitarist who personifies immortality. As the bumper sticker has it, “Think of the world we’ll be leaving Keith Richards.” How this riff-drunk ragamuffin, who turns 82 on Dec. 18, not only survived but stayed relevant is a mystery, a puzzle wrapped inside a guitar string. Solving it may be the best hope the rest of us have of aging gracefully.

I date my life with Keith to the spring of 1982, when, in the finale of the Central School talent show in Glencoe, Ill., I played the part of the guitarist in the Stones cover band that brought down the house with “Jumpin Jack Flash.”

It was while preparing for the show that I first really learned about Keith: about his legendary 1961 meeting with Jagger at the train station in Dartford, the English town where they both grew up; about their mutual love for the Chicago Blues (Jagger was carrying a stack of albums from Chess Records); about the Stones’ apprenticeship in the basement clubs and bars around London; about the first rush of fame and how Keith shut himself off from it behind a wall made of heroin. It was living through the chaos and tragedies of the 1960s and 70s—the river of opioids, the demise of Janis, Jimi, Jim and the rest—that gave him that vampiric aura. As the roadie puts it in “Wayne’s World 2,” “Keith cannot be killed by conventional weapons.

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-wisdom-of-keith-richards-at-82-500208bb?st=sRPTRM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Top photo: Rolling Stones circa 1963 = Keith is second from left

And people ask ‘why do drunk drivers get away with murder?’

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.11.2025

And people ask why do drunk drivers literally get away with murder?

Let’s Talk about being rewarded for criminal behavior.

It is unconscionable that a drunken driver engaged in one of the most sordid, cowardly and shameful crimes. Hit and run.

The perpetrator ran over an 88 year old woman on increasingly dangerous Streets of San Francisco. She died.

The SFPD finally corralled the perp. What does the Judge do? Grants ‘home detention’ until the Trial. Blowing off the District Attorney’s Motion to keep this killer in jail until Trial.

San Francisco Chronicle 12.11.2025

A man suspected in an Ingleside hit-and-run that killed an 88-year-old woman in October has been charged with murder, prosecutors said Thursday.

Prosecutors asked that Le be held without bail while awaiting trial, but a judge ruled that he would be released to home detention with electronic monitoring, officials said.

Hai Van Le, 48, faces additional charges involving driving under the influence and leaving the scene of the crash. He was arraigned Wednesday and pleaded not guilty, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.

On the evening of Oct. 26, victim Lau Sim Lui was struck by a driver at the intersection of Ocean and Ashton avenues. Police arrived at the scene just after 6:40 p.m. and found the woman on the ground in a crosswalk.

Medics declared Lui deceased at the scene a few minutes later, from what officials later said was a severe head injury.

A witness at the scene provided police with dashboard footage of the incident, which showed Le’s vehicle stopped at a red light and then proceeding through the intersection after the light turned green, prosecutors said.

The vehicle is then seen running over Lui, who was in the opposite crosswalk, officials said. Officials said the video shows the vehicle’s brake lights briefly activating before the driver continues east on Ocean Avenue.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/hit-run-murder-charge-sf-21237496.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2NyaW1lL2FydGljbGUvaGl0LXJ1bi1tdXJkZXItY2hhcmdlLXNmLTIxMjM3NDk2LnBocA%3D%3D&time=MTc2NTUyMTc5NjE0OA%3D%3D&rid=OTJhM2RhZWItNDMzYy00ZjMxLTgyMTQtZTU2ZjE2NDIzNDRl&sharecount=NA%3D%3D

MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER IN CONNECTION TO FATAL DUI HIT AND RUN

True reporters, like Sy Hersh, dare to expose what they’re told not to.

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.9.2025

I have followed Seymour Hersh writing for decades. I became transfixed when I read his classic “The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House” published in 1984. A compendium of the treacherous foreign policy instituted by President Nixon and carried out enthusiastically by Henry Kissinger. Countries in the Western Hemisphere to the near East and Asia, specifically Vietnam and Cambodia, were in their Machiavellian sights.

Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet who overthrew the democratically elected President Salvador Allende on 9.1.1.1973 shakes hands with Henry Kissinger. The story of Nixon and Kissinger’s involvement in the coup is written about in detail in Sy Hersh’s book.

The soon to be released documentary “Cover-up” is must viewing for those who want to know what genuine, honest investigative reporting is all about in the era of Donald Trump and his relentless assaults on the media. A mainstream media which has been cowed and compliant. Enabling this liar to attack the core of American democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh – **An American journalist icon**

Excerpted from Variety 8.25.2025

As “Cover-Up” reveals, the key lesson of Seymour Hersh’s career is that when it comes to crucial stories of corruption, just about every situation is layered, booby-trapped, woven with deception. The movie is called “Cover-Up” because cover-up is the metaphysical state we live in. The true reporters, like Hersh, are those who dare to expose what they’re told not to.

When Hersh, in the documentary, talks about how American media works, how it’s too cozy with power, he can sound a lot like the Noam Chomsky of “Manufacturing Consent.” But part of what’s so compelling about “Cover-Up” is that Hersh, in his heyday, wasn’t a pie-in-the-sky purist agitator like Chomsky; he was a regular guy who simply wanted the truth to get out there.

The film captures how he sort of fell into journalism, after helping to run his family’s dry-cleaning business on the South Side of Chicago. He was originally a crime reporter, and got his big break in 1963, when he went to work for the Associated Press. Assigned to cover the Pentagon, he would walk out of the scripted press briefings and, instead, wandered the halls and used his sports chatter to befriend high-ranking officers.

That’s how he got wind of the My Lai story, when an officer referenced what was going on with Lt. William Calley (without actually naming him). “Cover-Up” takes us inside the process of how this complex story was brought to light.

A false mythology of the massacre lives on to this day (that American soldiers went “crazy” with violence in the jungles), but the far uglier truth is that the murder of Vietnamese civilians had been ordered as a way to inflate the casualty numbers (which was the Army’s yardstick of success). My Lai wasn’t the only My Lai — far from it.

The story, which Hersh broke in 1969, made his name.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cover-review-laura-poitras-enthralling-121321596.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

https://screenanarchy.com/2025/09/toronto-2025-review-cover-up.html

San Francisco Public Works reacts to dangerous street conditions

SAN FRANCISCO – MASONIC AVENUE NEAR GEARY BOULEVARD

Lee Heidhues 12.8.2025

It was only 10 days ago that I took a hard fall on Masonic Avenue on the pavement in front of the shuttered Lucky Penny Restaurant at 2670 Geary Blvd. Suffering physical damage and a blow to my peace of mind. Happily a number of good citizens, including a nurse from nearby Kaiser, came to my aid.

**I returned to the site of The Fall three days later with Liz**. I will not be deterred from doing my shopping.

Feeling something needed to be done to publicize the dangerous streets I posted a recitation of the mishap (see below) and perhaps, more importantly, notified the Department of Public Works. https://sfpublicworks.org/

I learned the property owner is responsible for maintaining a safe sidewalk in front of their land. This morning I went shopping at next door Trader Joe’s and was pleasantly shocked to see white paint painted all along the sidewalk. The property owner has been notified that the dangerous condition must be rectified.

**The treacherous sidewalk in front of the shuttered Lucky Penny Restaurant**

**Be careful walking past the Lucky Penny. It’s dangerous.**

Like the Reaping Day scene out of The Hunger Games I involuntarily became a “Tribute.” The dangerous pavement has been a years long hazard. I crashed to the sidewalk in what resulted in a serious fortunately not fatal injury.

Tripped up at Trader Joe’s. A dangerous fall to the rocky street

Top photo: The Lucky Penny Restaurant. Trader Joe’s is next to the black car on the right.

Petty politics at the Tat Wong Academy – Master Chow is out

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.6.2025

A heartfelt plea to the Tat Wong Kung Fu Academy.

It is totally shocking and uncalled for that Master Jeff Chow has been cast aside and no longer providing his mastery of martial arts.

It appears the only reason for his expulsion is office politics at the Tat Wong Academy. There’s no question about his competence and ability to motivate the students.

**Liz Heidhues gets into the action at the Tat Wong Academy**

It’s hard to understand why an institution which prides itself on improvement of the body and mind can be so petty and venal. Totally ignoring and disrespecting the opinions and feelings of its student population.

The following messages sent to Tat Wong from long time student Liz Heidhues and her husband blogger Lee are heartfelt pleas to stop this petty political posturing and return Master Jeff Chow to his rightful place in the martial arts world.

Dear San Francisco Team

I have been attending Tat Wong Academy since 2018 and have been taught by many different sifus – including Joe, Philippe, Brandon, and most importantly the best – Master Chow.

Master Jeff Chow has been a student of Grand Master Tat-Mau Wong for more than twenty-six years, and has been a chief instructor at the Tat Wong Academy since 1998. He was awarded the title of Master in 2013 and is currently ranked internationally by The World Organization of Wushu Kung Fu Masters at 8th degree Black Belt.Master Chow has been fighting Sanshou for the past 15 years and is a competition champion. He was the Silver Medallist for the 2006 Pan American Games in the Sanshou 65-kilo weight category, and proudly represented the USA in 2007 as a USA World Team member. In 2009 and 2011 he served as the official USA Sanshou team coach.He is also a Gold Medallist from many International traditional form and lion dance competitions. Every day Master Chow passes on his skills and passion for Kung Fu to our students, our Sanshou fighters and our Lion Dance performers. Master Chow says, as both a teacher and a martial artist: “I will never stop my kung fu and sanshou training, because they continue to teach me about myself. I hope to inspire my students to feel the same.” He also adds: “Nothing is worth doing unless done well. So stay focused and dedicated and the results are always worth it.” – Featured in the Tat Wong website https://www.tatwong.com/

I also have a cordial relationship with Grandmaster Tat Wong, having met him when the school was housed in the old Hibernia bank at 7th Ave & Clement.

I would like Grandmaster Wong to know I am not happy with Master Chow’s ouster.

Master Chow delivers a class worth paying for.

**The array of belts earned by Liz Heidhues at the Tat Wong Academy since 2018**

He makes us work our muscles and our minds, inspires us to practice the different forms with passion and speed, and I walk away from his class feeling a sense of accomplishment from a good physical workout.

Master Chow grew up at the Academy. He know his stuff.

There has been no outreach to the students about the removal of Master Chow as our teacher. This is very poor customer relations. I do not want to continue the program if he doesn’t return.

Legacy Customer

Elizabeth Heidhues

Black Belt Club

**Liz Heidhues on her way to a Black Belt is awarded her Red Belt by Master Jeff Chow – 2.4.2025**

Tat Wong Kung Fu Academy

I am writing on behalf of my lifetime partner and wife Liz Heidhues.

Liz is extremely upset and disappointed that Master Chow is no longer the instructor.

In talking with Liz over the past seven plus years since she joined Tat Wong it is evident that the physical workout and coping skills Liz has learned have become an essential part of her life.

Now this has suddenly and with no warning been yanked away from Liz.

It’s not right.

Why Master Chow has been eliminated is impossible to understand and hard to accept.

He needs to be at Tat Wong to continue his work and making life in San Francisco safer for all of us.

In Solidarity,

Lee Heidhues

Lifetime partner and husband of Liz Heidhues

Top photo: Liz Heidhues on the way to Black Belt status is awarded her Red Belt by Master Chow – 2.4.2025

Conductor Jonathon Heyward leads the Seattle Symphony in “Mars” from Holst’s The Planets at Benaroya Hall. #ListenBoldly

U.S. Flips History by Casting Europe—Not Russia—as Villain

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.6.2025

Looking afar from the West Coast of America to most Americans Europe seems far away and inconsequential. Only as a tourist destination and photo op.

The reality is that Europe is an integral bastion economically and culturally for the United States.

It’s shocking to read that Donald Trump is striving to turn this centuries long relationship on its head as he seeks to solidify his indecipherable relationship with Vladimir Putin. Trump’s not so secret goal is to let Europe fend for itself while he withdraws into Fortress America.

Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal 12.6.2025

Nathalie Tocci, director of the Institute for International Affairs in Rome and a former EU diplomatic adviser, said the document lays out a fairly coherent vision of a world dominated by three big powers—the U.S., China and Russia—who have areas of cooperation and zones of influence.

“I think it’s fairly clear that Europe is seen by the administration as being on the colonial menu” for domination by either the U.S. or Russia, she said. “So to me, the real question is: ’What else needs to happen for us Europeans to wake up to this?’ ”

For years, the U.S. government has published an annual National Security Strategy that lays out how Washington sees the world and its approach to dealing with looming threats, from China to Russia to drug-traffickers in Latin America.

This week, the Trump administration’s version seemed to reserve its harshest tone for a new target: America’s closest allies in Europe.

The 30-page document painted European nations as wayward, declining powers that have ceded their sovereignty to the European Union and are led by governments that suppress democracy and muzzle voices that want a more nationalistic turn.

It says the continent faces “civilizational erasure” through immigration that could render it “unrecognizable” in two decades—as well as turning several North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies into majority “non-European” countries. It concludes the region could grow too weak to be “reliable allies.”

**Trump has castigated the European countries for not spending sufficiently on the military.** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Germany. **The German government now is considering reinstituting compulsory military service. Germans are protesting.**

The document underscores how radically the Trump administration is reshaping traditional American foreign policy, and it is likely to deepen divisions in the trans-Atlantic alliance, which has largely kept the peace in Europe since World War II and promoted Western values across the world.

The document landed like a bucket of cold water in European capitals. European leaders reading the document need “to assume that the traditional trans-Atlantic relationship is dead,” said Katja Bego, a senior researcher at Chatham House, a think tank in London.

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/u-s-flips-history-by-casting-europenot-russiaas-villain-in-new-security-policy-cbb138fa?st=5dzpKf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

A genuine Nazi. Trump dropped a flamethrower on the News Media.

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.5.2025 – UPDATED 12.9.2025

More seriously—more sinister—the White House has just put up a wall-of-shame webpage tracking media outfits and reporters who “misrepresent” or “lie” about the administration. Names are named, outfits identified and shamed. All this is meant to intimidate; it institutionalizes attacks on the media and, considering the broader context, potentially prompts and gives permission to unstable people who might want to act in the president’s supposed defense. The webpage, paid for by taxpayers as part of the White House website, looks not like an insult but part of a sustained campaign. It is a threat. It should be taken down. Peggy Noonan in Wall Street Journal 12.6.2025 – https://www.wsj.com/opinion/were-in-an-era-of-political-violence-cc359449?mod=hp_opin_pos_3

Donald Trump is a Clear and Present Danger to democracy.

I don’t know what’s more distressing.

The White House launching a Media Offenders Website titled ‘Hall of Shame’ https://www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/ or the general silence with few exceptions from the American media whose First Amendment rights are being trampled.

The shock of all this is that the publishers should be at the proverbial barricades. Press freedom and the First Amendment are under attack. Journalists, editors and publishers must be aware that when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 he destroyed the free press in Germany. If they’re not unaware they’re deluding themselves.

**‘Art of Catastrophe’ – Charlotte Salomon**

Trump will never get that far. But his intimidation tactics using the power of the Federal government is sending a chilling message

**Trump’s genuine Nazi like assault on the media. Utilizing the White House to intimidate journalists**

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 12.5.2025

A new government website lists journalists and media outlets that Donald Trump’s administration considers liars. Experts say the move endangers free media ― and thus erodes democracy in the US.

The website set up by the Trump White House amounts to threatening media outlets, Jonathan Katz, a fellow in governance studies at the think tank Brookings Institution, says, too.

“It can have a chilling effect on free speech, on independent media,” Katz told DW. “We’re watching carefully to see how this affects press freedom in the United States.”

It’s no secret that the current US administration doesn’t have too high an opinion of journalists. President Donald Trump recently called a female reporter asking him about his involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal “piggy.”

And in a press briefing on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt talked about how much of her job is taken up by dealing with what she labeled inaccurate characterizations published by White House correspondents.

“The fake news that we see pumped out of this building on a day-to-day basis — it’s honestly overwhelming to keep up with it all,” she said.

In response to what Leavitt said were “fake news and … attacks” being spread by reporters, the White House has created a website that lists media outlets and reporters who, according to the government, publish false, biased or misleading stories.

The new “Media Offenders” website includes featured “Offenders of the Week” as well as a “Hall of Shame” that consists of four pages (at time of publication) of media reports the White House has sorted into the categories bias, lie, false claim, malpractice, omission of context, mischaracterization, circular reporting, failure to report and left-wing lunacy.

In a statement released on December 1, the White House said by creating the website, it “dropped a flamethrower on the Fake News Media.”

**Adolf Hitler addressing fellow Nazis – The crushing of the press in Nazi Germany is something Donald Trump would like to do in America**

https://www.dw.com/en/how-white-house-attack-on-journalists-affects-us-press-freedom/a-75040640

Top photo: Donald Trump only wants to hear what makes him look good. He closes his ears to everything else.

Felon Trump is envious. His buddy warmonger Putin jails journalists

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.4.2025

**Soul mates Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump**–

It’s no surprise that Felon Trump is best buddies with Russian thug war mongering president Vladimir Putin. The former KGB agent who has no problem with his compliant courts jailing Russian journalists and political foes.

**Vladimir Putin with his KGB ID circa late 1980’s**

What Putin does to journalists in Russia is something that Felon Trump would like to do in America.

And not to only journalists. Felon Trump wants to prosecute his political foes. Trump has been successful in 2025 in making the once independent Department of Justice led by his flunkie Attorney General https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Bondi a revenge sledge hammer.

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 12.4.2025

A Moscow court on Thursday upheld five-and-a-half year prison sentences for four Russian journalists, including two former Deutsche Welle reporters who previously worked for the organization’s Moscow bureau.

Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin, along with Antonina Favorskaya and Artyom Kriger, were convicted in April on charges of participating in an “extremist organization” — a reference to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), an NGO founded by opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, died in February 2024 while imprisoned in an Arctic penal colony.

Russian authorities classified the FBK as an extremist organization in 2021, a designation that has since been used to prosecute journalists, activists and opposition figures associated with Navalny’s movement.

Prosecutors said the group created materials for the FBK YouTube channel. All four journalists denied the charges, saying they did not work for the foundation but merely reported on its activities.

Following Thursday’s judgment, the group is now expected to be transferred from pre-trial detention centers to penal colonies to serve their sentences.

Their conviction has sparked international criticism and raised concerns about press freedom in Russia.

**Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin, along with Antonina Favorskaya and Artyom Kriger, were convicted in April on charges of participating in an “extremist organization”**

https://www.dw.com/en/russia-appeal-rejected-for-journalists-tied-to-navalny/a-75019836

Lurie picks new top cop. Local SF media jumps on the bandwagon

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.3.2025

The local media has bowed down and stopped critical reporting of police abuse in San Francisco.

Instead the print and broadcast media have become enthusiastic cheerleaders and hopped on Mayor Lurie’s law and order bandwagon.

Meet the new Chief Derrick Lew. Same as the outgoing (temporary) Chief Paul Yep.

It should be obvious to anyone paying attention to San Francisco politics that Mayor Daniel Lurie had two major goals in the selection of a new Chief of Police

Keep the focus on fighting pervasive drug crime by selecting a Chief at the forefront of the battle;
Maintain a solid relationship with the powerful and increasingly outspoken Chinese community.

**Mayor Lurie and Derrick Lew surrounded by local legislators.**

One critical voice in all the cheerleading has been former Supervisor Rev. Amos Brown. In late November The San Francisco Chronicle published a long piece about Derrick Lew’s involvement in an incident during which Lew was shot at and ended in the shooting death of former Mayor London Breed’s cousin by SFPD.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/derrick-lew-police-chief-21197383.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2JheWFyZWEvYXJ0aWNsZS9kZXJyaWNrLWxldy1wb2xpY2UtY2hpZWYtMjExOTczODMucGhw&time=MTc2NDgyMjkyOTk2Nw%3D%3D&rid=OTJhM2RhZWItNDMzYy00ZjMxLTgyMTQtZTU2ZjE2NDIzNDRl&sharecount=NA%3D%3D

Rev. Brown wrote a letter to the editor decrying the sensationalism of the piece. And maintaining it exacerbated tensions between the Black and Chinese communities.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/letterstotheeditor/article/police-chief-san-francisco-21208013.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL29waW5pb24vbGV0dGVyc3RvdGhlZWRpdG9yL2FydGljbGUvcG9saWNlLWNoaWVmLXNhbi1mcmFuY2lzY28tMjEyMDgwMTMucGhw&time=MTc2NDgyMjgzODk0Mw%3D%3D&rid=OTJhM2RhZWItNDMzYy00ZjMxLTgyMTQtZTU2ZjE2NDIzNDRl&sharecount=NA%3D%3D

Excerpted from Mission Local 12.3.2025

Deputy Chief Derrick Lew has today been named chief of the San Francisco Police Department by Mayor Daniel Lurie, succeeding interim chief Paul Yep and former longtime chief Bill Scott.

Lew is a 22-year veteran of the department. He joined the SFPD in 2003 and served at Taraval Station covering the Westside. In 2006 he was nearly killed by a cousin of Mayor London Breed in Silver Terrace; Lew’s partner then shot and killed Charles Breed, who had earlier allegedly shot and killed two people.

**New Chief Derrick Lew takes over the SFPD**

Lew received a medal of valor for the incident.

He is a 52-year-old city native and, like fire chief Dean Crispen, is a graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep — meaning both the police and fire chief are St. Ignatius grads.

Lew has had a rocket-like trajectory after being promoted to commander in July 2024. Police sources said he was the right leader to reflect the department’s current priorities, which have shifted away from street patrols and toward larger, more coordinated investigations: “He is more about quality rather than quantity.”

Derrick Lew, 22-year department veteran, named new S.F. police chief

Top photo: The new Chief carves up the Thanksgiving turkey – photo SF Examiner

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