Boris Johnson already has the reputation for being difficult and rowdy.  Here is more grist for the English tabloid mill.

The Guardian 6.22.2019

Neighbour records shouting and banging at flat pro -Brexit MP Boris Johnson shares with Carrie Symonds (Shown above).

Police were called to the home of Boris Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, in the early hours of Friday morning after neighbours heard a loud altercation involving screaming, shouting and banging.

The argument could be heard outside the property where the potential future prime minister is living with Symonds, a former Conservative party head of press.

A neighbour told the Guardian they heard a woman screaming followed by “slamming and banging”. At one point Symonds could be heard telling Johnson to “get off me” and “get out of my flat”.

The neighbour said that after becoming concerned they knocked on the door but received no response. “I [was] hoping that someone would answer the door and say ‘We’re okay’. I knocked three times and no one came to the door.”

The neighbour decided to call 999. Two police cars and a van arrived within minutes, shortly after midnight, but left after receiving reassurances from both the individuals in the flat that they were safe.

When contacted by the Guardian on Friday, police initially said they had no record of a domestic incident at the address. But when given the case number and reference number, as well as identification markings of the vehicles that were called out, police issued a statement saying: “At 00:24hrs on Friday, 21 June, police responded to a call from a local resident in [south London]. The caller was concerned for the welfare of a female neighbour.

“Police attended and spoke to all occupants of the address, who were all safe and well. There were no offences or concerns apparent to the officers and there was no cause for police action.”

Johnson and Symonds have increasingly appeared together at public events in recent weeks. The former mayor of London topped Thursday’s ballot of Conservative MPs in the party leadership contest and is now the favourite against Jeremy Hunt to be the next prime minister.

The neighbour said they recorded the altercation from inside their flat out of concern for Symonds. On the recording, heard by the Guardian, Johnson can be heard refusing to leave the flat and telling Symonds to “get off my fucking laptop” before there is a loud crashing noise.

Symonds is heard saying Johnson had ruined a sofa with red wine: “You just don’t care for anything because you’re spoilt. You have no care for money or anything.

”The neighbour said: “There was a smashing sound of what sounded like plates. There was a couple of very loud screams that I’m certain were Carrie and she was shouting to ‘get out’ a lot. She was saying ‘get out of my flat’ and he was saying no. And then there was silence after the screaming. My partner, who was in bed half asleep, had heard a loud bang and the house shook.

”Johnson left his wife, Marina Wheeler, last year and began a relationship with Symonds, who has been credited with revitalising his appearance and approach to politics. She was part of his team when he publicly launched his campaign for the Tory leadership earlier this month.

In recent weeks the couple have been sharing a flat in a converted Victorian house. It has been reported that they intend to move into Downing Street together if he is elected leader.

Johnson’s office was contacted earlier on Friday for comment but had not responded by the time of publication.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/21/police-called-to-loud-altercation-at-boris-johnsons-home

British sense of fair play, eh??!!  Cheers.

The Guardian 6.21.2019

Judge rules man liable because cyclists must be prepared for unexpected behaviour

A woman who was knocked unconscious by a cyclist will be awarded compensation, despite a judge finding she had stepped into the road while looking at her phone.

Robert Hazeldean, a garden designer, who was also knocked out by the collision, will pay thousands in damages and court fees to Gemma Brushett, who works for a finance firm in the City of London and runs yoga retreats.

Hazeldean was returning from work in July 2015 when he crashed into Brushett as she crossed a busy junction near London Bridge. She launched a legal claim for compensation after sustaining a minor head injury.

Judge Shanti Mauger, at Central London county court, said the cyclist was “a calm and reasonable road user” and that Brushett was looking at her phone when she walked into the road in front of him.

The court heard that Brushett was one of a “throng” of people trying to cross the road at the start of rush-hour. She was looking at her mobile phone when crossing the road, and only noticed Hazeldean approaching at the last moment, despite the traffic lights showing green.

The court was told she panicked and tried to step back, but the cyclist, who had been travelling at 10-15mph, swerved in the same direction and hit her.

Judge Mauger said: “When I stand back and ask: ‘How did the accident happen?’ it seems to me that Mr Hazeldean owed a duty to other road users to drive with reasonable care and skill,” she said.

“Even where a motorist or cyclist had the right of way, pedestrians who are established on the road have right of way. Mr Hazeldean did fall below the level to be expected of a reasonably competent cyclist in that he did proceed when the road was not completely clear.”

Mauger said Brushett‘s conduct as a pedestrian must have contributed to the accident. “Ms Brushett must clearly have equal responsibility if she is crossing the road without looking – and if she is looking at her phone, even more so,” she said.

The judge’s ruling found that the parties shared responsibility, so while Brushett is guaranteed a payout, she will get only half of the full value of her claim.

The case will return to court at a later date for costs and damages figures to be fixed.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/18/woman-knocked-down-while-on-phone-wins-payout-from-cyclist

The Supreme Court made a correct and logical ruling in striking down racial bias in Jury selection.  Regrettably and predictably, Clarence Thomas weighed in with  a misguided and extreme Opinion which would have allowed this type of prosecutorial behavior to continue unabated.

Wall Street Journal 6.21.2019

Justices vote 7-2 to overturn murder conviction of black defendant in Mississippi

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Friday reaffirmed its strict prohibition against racial bias in jury selection, voting 7-2 to overturn a black defendant’s murder conviction by a Mississippi court after a prosecutor dismissed 41 of 43 African Americans over the course of six trials for the same killings.

Writing for the court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said it was unnecessary to break new legal ground. But the “extraordinary facts of this case” required the court’s intervention.

Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, dissented.

Justice Thomas, in dissent, accused the majority of pandering to news media interest in the Flowers case and acting on its own bias against state courts in the South. Justice Thomas contended there were race-neutral reasons for striking nearly every black juror and that the conviction should stand.

But he went further still, in a section Justice Gorsuch didn’t join, arguing that the Batson precedent was a mistake. “The ‘entire line of cases following Batson’ is ‘a misguided effort to remedy a general societal wrong by using the Constitution to regulate the traditionally discretionary exercise of peremptory challenges,’” he said, quoting one of own prior opinions.

Most trial courts allow lawyers to exercise a number of peremptory challenges during jury selection—that is, dismissing potential jurors without providing a reason. But in a 1986 case, Batson v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court held it was unconstitutional to do so based on race.

The Supreme Court has expanded the Batson principle since 1986 and now forbids sex-based use of peremptory challenges. But in his Batson concurring opinion, Justice Thurgood Marshall, the court’s first black member, said peremptory challenges should be banned altogether.

Starting in 1997, Doug Evans, the district attorney in Winona, Miss., prosecuted Curtis Flowers six times for the same crime. Two trials ended with hung juries, while three convictions with death sentences were overturned by the Mississippi Supreme Court for prosecutorial misconduct or racial bias in jury selection. The fourth conviction and death sentence—in 2010, by a jury with 11 whites and one black—was upheld by the state courts.

“Equal justice under law requires a criminal trial free of racial discrimination in the jury selection process,” Justice Kavanaugh wrote Friday.

He added, “Enforcing that constitutional principle, Batson ended the widespread practice in which prosecutors could (and often would) routinely strike all black prospective jurors in cases involving black defendants.”

“In the decades since Batson, this Court’s cases have vigorously enforced and reinforced the decision, and guarded against any backsliding,” Justice Kavanaugh also wrote. He was joined in the majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

Mr. Flowers was convicted of the 1996 killings at the Tardy Furniture Store in Winona. The victims included the owner, Bertha Tardy, 59 years old, and three employees, Carmen Rigby, 45; Robert Golden, 42; and Derrick Stewart, 16.

Mr. Flowers, then 26, had worked at the store, but no physical evidence tied him to the crime scene. Prosecutors argued he killed the victims in revenge for being fired.

Winona already merited a footnote in civil rights history. In 1963, civil-rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was arrested while her intercity bus made a rest stop. At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, she recounted being beaten and taken to jail. “We are going to make you wish you was dead,” she said an officer told her.

Today, Winona’s population of 4,500 is 44% white and 48% black, census data show. Mr. Evans has held the office of district attorney since the early 1990s.

It was clear during the oral arguments in March that most justices found the case troubling. Justice Elena Kagan observed that Mr. Evans examined black jurors more aggressively than whites, with more questions and to different ends.

“This prosecutor would question a white person who said that he or she had reservations about the death penalty,” she said, with the questions designed to elicit a promise to follow the law regardless.

“But if an African American said that he or she had qualms about the death penalty, the prosecutor would say the exact opposite,” Justice Kagan said, “like, ‘Well, it would be really hard for you to apply the death penalty then, wouldn’t it?’”

“The district attorney offered valid race-neutral reasons for each strike,” said Jason Davis, who represented the state of Mississippi.

“Any prosecutor can easily assert facially neutral reasons for striking a juror, and trial courts are ill-equipped to second-guess those reasons,” he wrote in 1986, adding that some racial bias could even be subconscious. The only complete solution, he said, was “banning peremptories entirely.”

Write to Jess Bravin at jess.bravin@wsj.com

New York Times 6.20.2019

WASHINGTON — President Trump approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for downing an American surveillance drone, but pulled back from launching them on Thursday night after a day of escalating tensions.

As late as 7 p.m. Thursday, military and diplomatic officials were expecting a strike, after intense discussions and debate at the White House among the president’s top national security officials and congressional leaders, according to multiple senior administration officials involved in or briefed on the deliberations.

Officials said the president had initially approved attacks on a handful of Iranian targets, like radar and missile batteries.

The operation was underway in its early stages when it was called off, a senior administration official said. Planes were in the air and ships were in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down, the official said.

Top Photo – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Wall Street Journal 6.20.2019

Team USA is three games into what it hopes will be a seven-game tournament capped by a second consecutive World Cup title on July 7 in Lyon.

It now enters the knockout round, where a loss means going from fresh-baked French bread to french fries.

Interesting perspective on Warriors historic five year run

San Francisco Examiner 6.19.2019

From Klay games to the Death Lineup, one can’t tell the story of the dynasty without these games

By Cyril Penn

Special to S.F. Examiner

The Golden State Warriors journey from lovable afterthought to villainous basketball tyrant may be finished. With the summer of 2019 expected to shake the foundations of the NBA, an exhausted team coming off five consecutive NBA Finals appearances is expected to go through myriad changes.

There’s no avoiding the big questions facing Golden State. How will the move across the Bay Bridge from “Roaracle” to San Francisco’s waterfront Chase Center change the home court dynamic? Who will be back among the Warriors’ bevy of star free agent talent? Can Golden State continue to contend, or will the Warriors fall swiftly from grace like other dynasties before them?

These questions will be asked ad naseum throughout the offseason, but rather than try to answer them now, it’s time to reflect on the games that have defined the Warriors’ dynasty, as the NBA approaches a tipping point, and the balance of power begins to shift for the first time in five years.

No. 5: June 1, 2017 — NBA Finals Game 1 vs Cleveland; 113-91 win

If any game truly exemplifies Golden State in peak “this isn’t fair” mode, it’s Game 1 of the 2017 Finals.

In his first Finals game with the Warriors, Kevin Durant led the way with 38 points as his squad built up an eight-point halftime advantage before their customary third quarter surge saw them open the second half on a 13-0 run.

They forced the Cavaliers into 20 turnovers, with LeBron James committing eight. With only four turnovers throughout the entire game, Golden State tied the record for fewest in a Finals contest.

The Warriors became the first team in NBA history to start the playoffs with 13 consecutive wins after sweeping through the Western Conference, ultimately finishing with the best winning percentage (.941) in NBA playoff history as they finished 16-1. While the team was expected to gel even more after another year of playing together, in hindsight, the 2017 playoff run was perhaps the most dictatorial of all-time.

No. 4: June 10, 2019 — NBA Finals Game 5 at Toronto; 106-105 win

This game will be remembered as the one in which Durant ruptured his Achilles tendon — a moment that may end up changing the course of NBA history as we know it.

Durant’s return to the court after a calf strain in the Western Conference Semifinals silenced his haters once and for all regarding the perception that he is “soft.”

He and Kevon Looney both returned from injuries to help their squad stave off elimination, and both showed how tough they were by gutting out gritty performances.

Without the aforementioned pair for most of the game, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson combined for 73 percent of the team’s total points as the Warriors overcame 10 straight fourth quarter points from Kawhi Leonard to narrowly steal a victory, with Draymond Green barely getting his fingers on Kyle Lowry’s potential game-winning shot.

This game had one of the most bizarre endings in recent memory, with the Warriors turning the ball over multiple times and DeMarcus Cousins nearly goaltending the team into elimination, yet they escaped with a win and forced one last game at Oracle Arena.

No. 3: June 19, 2016 — NBA Finals Game 7 vs Cleveland; 93-89 loss

Perhaps the most devastating loss in Golden State history, with Mike Breen shouting, “Blocked by James!” still haunts the nightmares of Bay Area fans who saw their team’s historic 73-9 season end in dramatic fashion.

After building a 3-1 series lead, Green’s Game 5 suspension began to turn the tide for Cleveland. His incredible Game 7 output of 32 points, 15 rebounds and nine assists brought the Warriors close, but with Curry and Thompson combining to go 12-for-36 from the field and Harrison Barnes shooting 3-for-10, Green’s effort was not quite enough.

“The Block” was followed by a dagger three from Kyrie Irving and Cleveland snatched away the championship.

An hour or so after the game, still fuming at his locker, Green sent a text to Durant.

“See what we’re missing,” Green texted his future teammate, according to Sports Illustrated’s Lee Jenkins. “We need you. Make it happen.” Less than a month later, Durant signed with Golden State.

No. 2: May 28, 2016 — Western Conference Finals Game 6 at Oklahoma City; 108-101 win

Often reffered to as “The Klay Game,” pundits consider this as one of the ultimate “What-If” games in recent NBA history.

Thompson set the record for 3-point makes in a playoff game, going 11-of-18 from beyond the arc on the way to a 41-point outing. Down by eight heading into the fourth quarter with a 3-2 series deficit against the last edition of the Durant-and-Russell-Westbrook-led Oklahoma City Thunder, the Warriors got 22 fourth- quarter points from Thompson, including six 3-pointers.

His eleventh three? A go-ahead dagger from 25 feet that gave the Warriors a 104-101 lead with two minutes left.

The win at Cheasepeake Energy Arena gave Golden State the momentum to take Game 7 at home, and ultimately may have been the biggest factor between Durant leaving the Thunder in free agency in the offseason.

Had Thompson not propelled the Warriors to victory, Golden State likely never evolves into a true dynasty.

No. 1: June 11, 2015 — NBA Finals Game 4 at Cleveland; 103-82 win

The highlights of other games during the Warriors’ otherworldly run may stick out more, but no game has defined Golden State — or changed the course of NBA history — as much as Game 4 of the 2015 Finals.

It is known as the birth of the “Death Lineup,” but this contest also changed modern basketball as we know it, marginalizing the center position to make lumbering big men unplayable in certain playoff situations, while empowering skillful players and quick-footed defenders.

Special assistant to the head coach Nick U’Ren theorized that replacing Andrew Bogut with Andre Iguodala in the starting lineup and sliding Draymond Green to a small-ball center position would limit the impact of Cleveland’s Timofey Mozgov and Tristan Thompson.

Trusting his staff like few head coaches, Steve Kerr took U’Ren’s advice, and the fact that U’Ren now serves as Golden State’s Director of Basketball Operations tells you all you need to know about how well the move went.

Trailing 2-1 in the series, the Warriors blasted the Cavaliers in the final three games, and Iguodala was crowned as Finals MVP for his role in the newfound lineup and ability to slow down James at his peak.

The “Death Lineup,” which eventually evolved into the “The Hamptons Five,” turned throwback centers and back-to-the-basket forwards into relics of the past and birthed a new era of spacing and tempo that has overtaken the NBA landscape.

These Warriors have left a lasting legacy in multiple facets of basketball, but the implementation of the “Death Lineup” shows exactly how much a dynastic era can influence the perception of an entire sport.

https://www.sfexaminer.com/sports/five-games-defined-golden-states-dynasty/

I read a Commentary in the San Francisco Chronicle by Art Critic Charles Desmarais in which he scrutinizes the tenure of the soon to depart Chair of the Trustees Dede Wilsey.  In his commentary an upcoming exhibit is discussed as part of Fine Arts Museum managment’s effort to be current with contemporary art, “Soul of a Nation.”

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/with-dede-wilsey-out-whats-next-for-the-fine-arts-museums-of-sf

This November, the de Young Museum welcomes the internationally acclaimed exhibition, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, 1963–1983, organized by the Tate Modern in London. This powerful and provocative presentation focuses on art made in the pivotal decades between 1963 and 1983, when issues of race and identity dominated and defined both public and private discourse. Rarely has an historical exhibition proved to be so timely—and to provoke so much meaningful discussion among its numerous viewers.

The works in Soul of a Nation were forged in a crucible of institutionalized racism and codified prejudice that had pervaded the entire American nation for centuries. Galvanized to take action, and inspired by the Civil Rights struggle for equality and justice, African American artists determined to use art and culture as catalysts for self-definition, self-empowerment, and self-determination.

The artists represented in Soul of a Nation worked in numerous cities across the United States and in multiple media. The de Young’s presentation of Soul of a Nation will include an expanded group of works by artists who worked in the Bay Area. Their paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, collages, assemblages, and custom clothing contributed to the Black Power movement by promoting personal and cultural pride, collective solidarity and empowerment, political and social activism, and pan-African nationalism. Long marginalized, these revelatory works and the enduring relevance of their messages are now understood to be central to the complex histories of American culture.

https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/soul-of-a-nation

Trump bashed his way into the White House by demonizing foreign nationals. The 2015 San Francisco Garcia-Zarate trial enabled the rabble rousing demagogue Trump to feed red meat to his base of xenophobic and fearful Nationalist followers. Now, the Garcia-Zarate case will move from State to Federal Court and provide the Trump megaphone with another excuse to summon the narrow minded racist portion of the American public as he practices the dark political arts to gain another four years in power.

Excerpted from San Francisco Examiner 6.19.2019

New trial date likely to be set for undocumented man acquitted in killing of Kate Steinle

The long-delayed federal gun case against an undocumented immigrant at the center of a national controversy over the killing of 32-year-old Kate Steinle is expected to move forward on the heels of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

In a 7-2 decision Monday, the Supreme Court upheld an exception to the U.S. Constitution, which says that no one shall be tried twice for the same crime. The exception allows both the state and the federal government to charge a person over a single incident as “separate sovereigns.”

The decision clears the way for the U.S. Attorney’s Office to prosecute Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate on gun charges stemming from the day the 46-year-old Mexican national fired a bullet that ricocheted off a San Francisco pier and killed Steinle nearly four years ago on July 1, 2015.

Jurors in San Francisco Superior Court had already acquitted Garcia-Zarate of murder and manslaughter by the time the U.S. Attorney’s Office charged him in December 2017. The jury had also convicted him of illegal gun possession.

Featured photo –  July 7, 2015 file photo, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by late San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/u-s-supreme-court-ruling-clears-way-for-feds-to-prosecute-garcia-zarate/

The rise of Neo-Nazism is pervasive.

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 6.17.2019

A suspected neo-Nazi’s arrest in the Kassel politician’s murder case has focused concerns on far-right terrorism in Germany. The city is home to an extremist scene and was the location of a notorious National Socialist Underground  (NSU) murder in 2006.

The implication of a Sunday arrest, coincidentally made on the third anniversary of the killing of British MP Jo Cox by a far-right extremist in the UK, is that the Walter Lübcke case would mark the first time in decades that an active politician was killed by a terrorist in Germany.

The manner of the killing — a close-range shot to the head — also recalled the series of killings by the only neo-Nazi terrorist group that has so far been discovered and investigated by German security forces: the National Socialist Underground (NSU).

Over a seven-year period, the NSU carried out nine murders of people with immigrant backgrounds, using a single Ceska handgun. The last two murders happened over a three-day period in Dortmund and Kassel in April 2006.

Germany’s federal prosecutors have taken over the investigation into the murder of Walter Lübcke, indicating that the killing of the Kassel district president on June 2 is being treated as a politically-motivated terrorist act.

A number of German outlets have reported details of the alleged far-right ties of the suspect arrested in the city of Kassel in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Monday that the 45-year-old man, named only as Stephan E., had a long criminal record, had already issued death threats via his YouTube channel, and that weapons were found during the search of his home.

According to the paper, Stephan E. had written a comment on YouTube in 2018 under his alias Game Over that read “Either this government abdicates soon or there will be deaths.”

Citing sources within security forces, the paper, along with public broadcasters NDR and WDR, said the suspect had been active in extreme-right groups, including the domestic neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) and a group known as the Autonomen Nationalisten (Autonomous Nationalists), a pan-European neo-Nazi group that has adopted some Antifa and far-left tactics.

Stephan E. is also believed to have been sentenced to six years in prison for an attempted bomb attack on a refugee home in 1995. He was also reported to have taken part in an attack on a trade union demonstration in 2009.

Officially, however, the federal prosecutors were giving little away about the investigation surrounding the suspect. Press spokesman Markus Schmitt appeared briefly before the cameras in Karlsruhe on Monday afternoon to confirm that the murder was being treated as a far-right extremist crime. He added that there was no indication yet that the suspect indeed belonged to a particular neo-Nazi terrorist cell, but that police were investigating whether others may have been involved.

The neo-Nazis of Kassel and Dortmund

Hendrik Puls, researcher of the far-right scene and an academic advisor to the NSU investigative committee established by the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, sees Lübcke’s murder in the context of the neo-Nazi scene that sprang up in the cities of Dortmund and Kassel in the mid-1990s, inspired by the British neo-Nazi group Combat 18.

“That’s the first thing I thought of [when I heard of Lübcke’s case],” Puls told DW. “This is a region that is tightly connected to the activities of Combat 18, both currently and historically.”

In the mid- to late 1990s, Puls explained, Combat 18 and its associated groups began “propagating armed struggle,” for instance by publishing magazines that included bomb-making instructions as well as sharing strategies for armed struggle.

https://www.dw.com/en/walter-l%C3%BCbcke-murder-raises-specter-of-neo-nazi-terrorism/a-49238157

This Swastika is totally gross, disgusting and should be taken out immediately. In Germany a citizen who displays such a symbol could face criminal charges. In Germany the Swastika is outlawed if used in a context of völkisch ideology. It is reassuring the local citzenry is taking up this issue and demanding that this symbol of hate and genocide be removed immediately. It is despicable.

Excerpted from San Francisco Chronicle 6.12.2019

An online petition calling on an El Sobrante man to remove a giant concrete swastika from his front lawn has gathered more than 3,000 signatures, but the homeowner sounded unmoved Wednesday.

The petition was posted Monday on the Care2 website by a group calling itself “Not in Our Town El Sobrante.” As of 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, the petition had digital signatures from 3,207 supporters.

The petition’s goal is to persuade Steve Johnson (pictured below), a 67-year-old retired welder, to rip out a swastika he put in his front yard as part of a driveway he said he is building. Johnson told The Chronicle he understood the historical significance of the Nazi symbol, but he decided to install it anyway because he liked the design.

Since news stories about the swastika appeared, Johnson’s car and two pickup trucks have been egged, he said. He suspects neighbors. The answering machine on his phone has been filled with insults and threats, he added, and lots of people have driven past and taken photographs.

Johnson covered the swastika with “blankets and stuff to calm things down,” but he hasn’t removed the offending symbol — though he held out the possibility.

“I haven’t decided what I’m going to do,” Johnson said. “There’s been a lot more (reaction) than I expected. Everybody’s on my butt about this.”

The petition’s author — identified as Sarah Dunham by a Care2 spokeswoman — did not, and she notes that the swastika has become an international symbol of hatred.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Petition-calls-for-removal-of-giant-swastika-from-13974235.php