Greg Suhr was forced out as San Francisco’s top cop in 2016 by late Mayor Ed Lee following  another San Francisco officer involved shooting.  Having sunk into relative obscurity, the ex-Chief has returned in a controversial way.

Suhr’s endorsement of Suzy Loftus, former Police Commissioner and currently legal counsel for the Sheriff’s Dept., will further heat up the District Attorney’s race.

Suhr’s backing may help Loftus in the “conservative” areas of The City.  His presence in the Loftus camp will surely motivate those who have called the cops to account and suffered by their actions.  

The Chesa Boudin campaign need only sit back, stay quiet and await the strong reaction to Suhr’s  endorsement of Loftus.

San Francisco Examiner 9.3.2019  Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez

Greg Suhr was forced to resign after continuing controversy over police shootings

Our City-by-the-Bay’s former police chief and San Francisco native, Greg Suhr, is stepping back into the political limelight — or at least, tip-toeing into it — to co-host a campaign event for District Attorney candidate Suzy Loftus.

That “reception in support of” Loftus, that many described to me as a fundraiser, is slated for Wednesday, September 25, according to an invitation making the rounds on social media.

It’s a gutsy move.

While Suhr is beloved on the West Side as a son of San Francisco and St. Ignatius College Preparatory High School alum, he’s also got a fair share of detractors, especially among people of color on the opposite side of The City whose community has a shaky relationship with the SFPD.

For a brief glimpse at how incensed people can get about our former chief, look no farther than 2017, when he tried to get a gig consulting on security for the Golden State Warriors. As soon as the move was publicly announced it was lambasted, and the Warriors and Suhr parted ways.

It’s been a rough road for Suhr, who resigned in 2016 from his 26-year career on the force and as chief at the behest of Mayor Ed Lee, after officers shot and killed several people of color in the line of duty in 2016. That included Mario Woods, Luis Gongora and Jessica Nelson Williams, for those keeping track.

Amid those deaths, protesters dubbed “The Frisco Five” staged a hunger strike calling for Suhr’s ouster, and led a march of hundreds to City Hall against him.

“If Suhr is a supporter of yours and you’re running for District Attorney, it shows me you’re about prosecuting black and brown folks and any of the corruption going on in the department,” said Equipto, a San Francisco rapper and activist and one of the hunger strikers. If someone is supported by Suhr, he said, “They’d be a police sympathizer to me. Some might say it’s OK to sympathize with police.”

Equipto ran into Loftus a few months ago, he said. She reached out to shake his hand and he declined, he noted.

Father Richard Smith, has long worked in the Mission District alongside those communities, often advocating for justice for those shot by SFPD. He has endorsed Loftus’ opponent, Chesa Boudin, and took umbrage at Loftus seeking support from Suhr.

“When Chief Suhr resigned after all the racist text messages and killings by police, many of us hoped for a new day in SFPD,” Smith told me. “We’re still a long way from implementing those reforms. And knowing that former Chief Suhr remains such a prominent influencer in the Loftus campaign is very discouraging for us. We had hoped the city was turning a page.”

Notably, Loftus formerly led the Police Commission. She’s also got a strong base of support on the West Side, and at various points has been rumored as a possible supervisor candidate there.

Political consultants have also said its a key battleground in her race against Chesa Boudin, Nancy Tung and Leif Dautch, as low voter turnout will favor the more conservative, dependable voters on that side of The City.

And generally, as a rule, folks on that side of The City still love Greg Suhr.

“When I was on the Police Commission, I worked with Greg to get body worn cameras for patrol officers and started the process to reform the use of force rules,” Loftus told me, Tuesday. “Those changes have resulted in a 30 percent decrease in use of force by SFPD. He joins reform advocates like Lateefah Simon, Officers for Justice, Supervisor Shamann Walton and Roma Guy in supporting me.”

He also isn’t the only co-host, which features a who’s-who of West Side notables like former Supervisor Annemarie Conroy, key to gaining support in the Sunset District, said Jim Ross, a long-time political consultant.

“This is the West Side movers and shakers list,” Ross said. “This is a real opportunity for Loftus to organize on the West Side of town.”

While everyone I talked to who is in-the-know about this event called it a fundraiser, Loftus’ campaign manager Lauren Feuerborn denied that descriptor and called it a “house party.”

So no checks will pass hands at this house party?

“I can’t guarantee we won’t raise any money, but that’s not the priority,” Feuerborn said.

Mayor London Breed, Sheriff Vicki Hennessy, and the Mayor’s Chief of Staff Sean Elsbernd are also guests and hosts on the list. Suhr co-hosted a similar event for Breed’s mayoral campaign.

Star studded, indeed.

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news-columnists/former-sfpd-chief-returns-to-political-limelight-to-campaign-for-suzy-loftus/

Margaret Atwood, world reknown ever since her 1985 Dystopian novel “The Handmaids Tale” took the literary world by storm, has written a sequel “The Testaments.”  This novel result in the Canadian writer being awarded her second Booker.  The first was in 2000 for “The Assassin’s Tale.”

I read “The Handmaid’s Tale” when it was released and have read it twice since.

Deutsche Welle 9.3.2019

The six finalists for the top literary award in the English-speaking world have been revealed. Veteran authors Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie have already picked up the Booker Prize in the past.

The Booker Prize shortlist, revealed on Tuesday, is always a highly awaited announcement in the world of literature. 

Six books were selected from the longlist of 13. “Like all great literature, these books teem with life, with a profound and celebratory humanity,” said jury chair Peter Florence at the press conference.

These are the works that made it onto the shortlist:

– Margaret Atwood’s novel The Testaments is a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian novel from 1985 which has also been adapted into a hit TV series. The new novel is set 15 years later. The Canadian author won the Booker in 2000 with The Blind Assassin.

– Scotland-based author Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport explores the worries of an Ohio housewife; the book is described as “a heresy, a wonder — and a revolution in the novel.”

– Chigozie Obioma from Nigeria, had already been shortlisted for the award with his debut work, The Fishermen. His second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities, has now also been selected among the finalists.

– British-Turkish author Elif Safak is the most-read female author in Turkey. Her novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World is written from the perspective of a dead woman, a victim of sexual violence.

– British-Indian author Salman Rushdie’s shortlisted novel, Quichotte , modernizes Cervantes’ classic and is set in present-day USA. The author of The Satanic Verses won the 1981 Booker Prize for Midnight’s Children and was selected twice as the “Booker of Bookers,” to mark the 25th anniversary and the 40th anniversary of the prize. Rushdie was also shortlisted for several other novels.

– Bernardine Evaristo, from the UK, has also made it onto the prestigious list with her novel Girl, Woman, Other, which follows the lives and struggles of 12 very different characters. The jury describes the book as “Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.”

The Booker Prize, launched in 1969, used to be restricted to authors of the Commonwealth countries, the Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe. Since 2013, international citizens are eligible as long as the book has been published in the UK.

Beyond the guaranteed increase in book sales, the winner of the award also receives £50,000 (€54,750 / $60,000) on top of the £2,500 granted to each of the six shortlisted authors.

Last year’s winner was Northern Irish author Anna Burns for her novel Milkman and US writer George Saunders who won in 2017 with Lincoln in the Bardo.

The 2019 winner will be announced on October 14. 

https://www.dw.com/en/atwood-rushdie-among-booker-prize-shortlist/a-50267171

Link to National Public Radio (NPR) review attached.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/03/755868251/the-testaments-takes-us-back-to-gilead-for-a-fast-paced-female-centered-adventur

The rapid rise of the AfD in Germany is not getting the attention it deserves in America. This Neo Nazi party, disguising itself as a legitimate mainstream political party, is rapidly pushing its way forward and becoming major presence in Germany, Europe and beyond.

Deutsche Welle 9.2.2019

The far-right Alternative for Germany continues to make gains after strong showings in two eastern state elections in Brandenburg and Saxony. What lies behind the party’s success in the former East?

There is no simple way to explain the motivations of Alternative for Germany (AfD) party voters. They are far too many, and they are varied. There are, however, some conspicuous traits: Most them are between the ages of 30 and 60, and they are predominantly male.

Lusatia, a region in eastern Saxony and southern Brandenburg, is an AfD stronghold. The far-right party picked up 30% of the vote there in Sunday’s state elections. Lusatia suffered in the economic downturn that followed German reunification in 1990. Coal mining — practically the only major industry left in the region — has been especially hard hit. Polls show that in areas like Lusatia that struggle economically, voters often choose the AfD.

The migration of wolves from Eastern Europe to eastern Germany and the construction of wind turbines are two issues that have upset voters in the region: many locals now have a towering generator close to their property. The wolf issue has enraged people, especially farmers. In an attempt to save their stocks, they were forced to fence in goats and sheep, but often wolves have still managed to kill the animals. There are now so-called wolf guards in some towns to watch over herds. When these things happened, the AfD was there: often present at pre-election events, the party was listening to the people and promised to help.

Read more: Berlin reacts to far-right surge in eastern elections

For years, state governments in Saxony and Brandenburg laid out plans to boost regional investment, some of which were much more successful than others. Those policy failings can can be felt in the region’s numerous struggling communites. On the Polish border (another AfD stronghold), for example, there are near-empty towns with dilapidated streets and old lights, no shops, and hardly any children.

Many people feel abandoned by the federal government in Berlin. They had few chances for prosperity and remained disadvantaged in postunification Germany. Saxony’s government has boasted about the state’s prosperity⁠ but in many towns, there is little evidence of it.

When refugees began to arrive in Germany, an event that drew national attention, many people in this part of the country found it difficult to grasp. They felt they had been there long before the refugees arrived, but nobody ever cared about them. That kind of sentiment was common at the peak of the refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016. Talking to people living there today, little has changed.

The AfD wants to use this regional election success to make gains nationally: The East can be a tailwind for voters in the West, as many party leaders have long said. But this momentum will also stoke internal party tensions: the bolstered factions from the eastern states will increasingly stake a claim on the national level.

An East-West internal party conflict appears to be looming already

Read more: Culture under scrutiny — what AfD gains at the polls imply for the arts

https://www.dw.com/en/what-drives-the-far-right-afds-success-in-eastern-germany/a-50264353

Sunday’s election in two former East German states saw the Neo Nazi AfD capture the second most votes. The rapid rise of the AfD should be a wake up call to  progressive people. The rise of the racist, anti-immigrant Populist AfD is a clear message that this noxious political philosophy is not going to disappear. In 1920’s Weimar Germany, the National Socialists were scoffed at and marginalized.  The price paid was the ascendancy of Adolf Hitler and the 12 year regime of terror and World War.

Deutsche Welle 9.1.2019

On the 80th anniversary of the first battle of World War II, the right-wing populist AfD party scored its strongest-ever results in two states. Germany is now wrestling with itself, says DW’s Editor-in-Chief Ines Pohl.

In the early morning hours of September 1, 1939, Germany began World War II with an attack on Poland. Unspeakable atrocities followed, including millions of dead and wounded, innumerable rapes, displaced persons and a world that is still recovering from the destructive rage of the Nazis.

Exactly 80 years later, a German political party that campaigns for votes primarily on a platform of nationalistic ideas and racist exclusion is celebrating double-digit successes in two former East German states. These are the best results in the party’s short history: Within just a few years, it has managed to rise from a small fringe party to the second-strongest political force in the state parliaments. Polls had predicted it could become the top party in Saxony; that did not come to pass, but there is no room for rejoicing in its close second-place finish.

Read more: Why the state elections in eastern Germany matter

Economically successful times

So what does it say about Germany that this sort of party can flourish in economically very successful — and relatively politically stable — times? And what is to be feared when times change and Germany finds itself in the maelstrom of a global recession? What measures are in place to prevent the mistakes of the past? How sure can we be that a party with primarily racist members can never again take over the German government?

The two established parties, Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), have now had their worst showings in those states since reunification. This trend essentially means it will become more and more complicated to find government alliances even in the hitherto stable Germany. And the principle of these two vast Volksparteien — the longstanding “people’s parties” that have long scooped up votes from the vast middle ground between the right and left extremes — no longer works.

All this shows how much Germany is struggling with what kind of country it really wants to be. Which course does it want to chart on refugee policy, not to mention the major economic and social issues of our time? How much nation-state should there be, and how much Europe?

Arrogance is out of place

It’s a fact of life that you need the benefit of hindsight in order to truly recognize and evaluate what has happened in a historical moment, and what influence these events might have on the future. In this respect, one can only speculate on what will be read in the history books about September 1, 2019.

No question: These election results will inspire the AfD nationwide. The party is a force to be reckoned with that will not disappear so quickly. This requires the other parties to find a way to deal with it. To face the AfD’s success with proud, haughty arrogance would be a fatal mistake. These results have brutally demonstrated to political leaders that something is going awry in the country, and they must look and listen more closely to what drives voters into the arms of populists.

However, it is also part of Germany’s historical responsibility to have principles that are non-negotiable. This includes the freedom of religion as well as the right to asylum for people in need. These principles must never be sacrificed, no matter how difficult forming a government may be.

Sexism at play again.  Dean Preston’s campaign manager gave the correct signal when she called out the Establishment Democratic Party.  These people are generally a group of political hangers on who will do whatever it can to smack down any Progressive insurgency threatening their hegemony in local politics.

Would the outrage have been as voluble if a guy had called out these appartchiks in such bawdy fashion?!!

Dean Preston, a stellar Progressive tenants advocate, who will not be anybody’s Establishment go along get along should he belected this November to the Board of Supervisors.

Excerpted from San Francisco Examiner – Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez 9.1.2019

One, solitary finger has some San Francisco Democrats flipping out.

Jen Snyder, the take-no-prisoners campaign manager for Democratic Socialist supervisor candidate Dean Preston, flipped “the bird” to the San Francisco Democratic Party Wednesday night after her candidate lost their endorsement.

The perceived backroom deals, the perceived betrayal by one-time allies, and the Wednesday night endorsement of the progressive-aligned Party’s perceived political opponent — District 5 Supervisor Vallie Brown, an ally of moderate Democrats — all gave Snyder cause to give the Party a piece of her mind.

When I asked her if extending her middle finger to the Dems, a board made up of politicians, apparatchiks and other functionaries, was more of a “fuck off” or a “fuck you,” she answered decisively.

“It was definitely a ‘fuck you,’” she said.

“I’m a strong, fiery, opinionated social activist woman. No one’s asked me to be classy before,” she said.

Snyder grew up briefly on 24th Street in the Mission before moving to El Sobrante, and was a field consultant helping to pass the landmark 2018 tax measure to raise money for homelessness, “Our City, Our Home.” She told me she’s weathered far more harrowing moments than this.

Still, she finds it funny that those policing her behavior tend to be other women.

“I guess I just think it’s interesting that folks like women in politics so much these days, but not when they’re uppity and flippin’ the bird,” she said.

But her decision to give our local Dems the bird — while certainly something many have undoubtedly contemplated, perhaps with a grin — sent local political circles into a tizzy, which has subsequently spilled out onto social media.

That’s an obvious example of policing the behavior of women, Snyder and her allies have said.

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news-columnists/dean-prestons-campaign-manager-draws-fire-for-flipping-sf-democratic-party-the-bird/

This legislation is a big deal for  California renters.  Renters statewide will have rights in the face of  unchecked rent increases.  Landlords who seek to impose outrageous rent increases will have limits placed on their profiteering.

San Francisco Chronicle 8.31.2019

SACRAMENTO — Californians would be protected against massive rent increases and unfair evictions under an agreement announced Friday evening by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Tenants who have lived in an apartment for at least a year could not be evicted without a just cause, including failing to pay rent, breaching a rental agreement, creating a nuisance or engaging in criminal activity. If they were to be evicted through no fault of their own, such as when a property is taken off the market, they would be entitled to relocation assistance equivalent to one month of rent.

Tenant advocates and landlords have been at odds all year over anti-rent-gouging legislation that supporters said was necessary to keep people in their homes as living costs soar across California and that groups representing apartment owners and developers argued would discourage new construction. But the groups agreed to a deal that could clear a path for AB1482, a bill from Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, that has struggled to find favor in the Legislature amid intense industry opposition.

Under the compromise, landlords would not raise rent by more than 5% plus the regional cost of living increase, or a maximum of 10%, per year, according to the governor’s office.

The deal would expire in 2030 and exclude apartment buildings built in the previous 15 years, duplexes where the owner lives in one of the units and single-family homes, unless they are owned by corporations.

“The high cost of housing and rising rents are preventing California families from getting ahead,” Newsom said in a joint statement with Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Chiu. “These steep housing costs drive inequality and threaten to erode California’s economic growth.”

The details of the agreement are similar to early versions of Chiu’s AB1482, which was dramatically scaled back to win approval in the Assembly in June.

The most recent iteration would have capped rent increases at 7% plus inflation and would have sunset after three years. But Newsom told reporters several weeks ago that he wanted something stronger, ratcheting up negotiations again.

The California Apartment Association, which represents owners and developers of rental properties, had warned legislators for months that the measure was too restrictive and would scare development away from the state. But in a statement Friday, Debra Carlton, senior vice president of public affairs, said the association thought it was important to be a part of the solution.

“We applaud the governor for temporarily finding a solution for tenants,” she said. “Now we must get serious about moving forward on production, which is the only way we address our housing crisis.”

The changes will be amended into AB1482 next week and the bill must win the approval of both the Senate and the Assembly before the Legislature adjourns on Sept. 13.

San Francisco Examiner 8.30.2019

A state appeals court has overturned a criminal conviction for weapons possession for Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, who was previously acquitted of the murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco in 2015.

Pictured above is the late Public Defender Jeff Adachi who, along with Chief Trial Attorney Matt Gonzalez,  led the defense team for the accused.

The ruling by three judges in the First Appellate District found that the trial court failed to instruct the jury on a legal defense for Zarate, that he possessed the gun too briefly to be convicted of possessing a firearm as a felon.

Zarate was tried for murder in the July 1, 2015, shooting of Steinle, who was walking with her father and a family friend on Pier 14 off The Embarcadero. Zarate’s defense attorneys argued that he had picked up an object wrapped in rags, which he realized was a gun only when it discharged, hitting Steinle in the back.

Zarate was acquitted of the murder.

After that, prosecutors filed the weapons possession charges and Zarate was found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison.

The case became a national flashpoint in debates over immigration, as Zarate is an undocumented Mexican citizen who had been deported five times and had seven felony convictions.

The case was frequently cited by President Donald Trump as he sought more restrictive immigration policies.

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/conviction-in-steinle-shooting-case-overturned-on-appeal/

The Arts Edition

The Government does all it can to keep its activities a secret and will crack down on those who push too hard to exert their rights and demand transparency.

Los Angeles Times 8.27.2019

Kenneth Turan

UPDATE:  Here is the latest on the broad daylight assassination in Berlin last week.  The Russian denials are a predictable response from the Putin regime.

Deutsche Welle 8.28.2019

The victim of an assasination-style shooting in Berlin was not targeted by the Russian government, the Kremlin said. The Georgian man had fought against Russian forces during the Second Chechen War.

The Kremlin on Wednesday issued a denial of any involvement in the slaying of Georgian man who had fought against Russian forces in Chechnya. Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, 40, was shot dead in a park in Berlin on August 23.

“This case has nothing to do with the Russian state or official agencies,” said President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Peskov added: “I categorically deny any link between this killing and Russian officials.” He also said that questions regarding the 49-year-old Russian suspect picked up by German police would be better directed at the foreign ministry.

Khangoshvili was reportedly killed “execution-style” in the Kleiner Tiergarten park. The assailant approached the man from behind as he was walking to a mosque before shooting him twice and fleeing on a bicycle.

Police subsequently found a Glock handgun, wig, and bicycle in the nearby Spree river.

Victim survived previous assasination attempts

The victim has been described as a veteran of the Second Chechen War from 1999 to 2009, serving first as a field commander and then joining part of a Georgian counter-terrorist task unit. In 2012, he was part of a group of Georgian special forces who carried out an operation against militants who were holding hostages in the remote Lopota gorge, not far from the border of Russia’s Dagestan republic.

Authorities believe the murder could be a revenge killing connected to Khangoshvili’s military activity.

One of his sons told German media that his father had survived four previous attempts on his life, most recently in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi in 2015, prompting him to flee and seek asylum in Europe, where he has been living under assumed identities.

https://www.dw.com/en/moscow-denies-involvement-in-execution-of-georgian-in-germany/a-50202419

“Not some medieval system?”  Get serious. “This is San Franciso,” where the proverbial and actual knives are out 24/7.  It’s all hard ball political football in this town. The dispossessed and unrepresented are cast aside.

The young man, previously placed on psychological monitoring, will  spend his pretrial period in Jail.  Nothing changed except the fact the Judiciary caved in to public opinion.

August 29, 2019

A San Francisco Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered a homeless man accused of attacking a woman outside her South Beach apartment complex earlier this month to remain in custody, but agreed to dismiss charges related to a second February incident.

In response to a Public Defender’s argument that Austin Vincent, 25, wouldn’t be able to receive mental health treatment in jail, Judge Austin Moody said, “You can do a lot of programming in jail. This is not some medieval system. This is San Francisco.”

The Aug. 11 attack outside of The Watermark building at 501 Beale St., which was caught on surveillance video, received widespread media coverage after Judge Christine Van Aken agreed to release Austin Vincentfrom custody on the condition that he enrolls in treatment and finds temporary housing.

However, after inadvertently seeing the video of the violent attack, Van Aken then ordered Vincent to wear an ankle monitor. Then, when a victim from a February attack identified Vincent as her assailant last week, he received new charges and Van Aken ordered him into custody in connection with those charges.

Earlier this week, however, Vincent’s attorney Deputy Public Defender Saleem Belbahri (pictured below) filed a motion to have the new assault and making criminal threats charges dismissed. In court on Thursday, Belbahri said Vincent couldn’t be the assailant in the February attack because at the time, he was at a facility in Huntington Beach in Southern California receiving substance abuse treatment.

In that case, a victim said a man had attacked her and her friends and threatened to kill her with a knife near Fourth and Brannan streets.

Because Van Aken was in trial, Judge Ross Moody heard the motion and agreed to dismiss those charges.

With the new charges gone, Belbahri sought to have Vincent released with the ankle monitor, arguing that because of his mental health issues, he wouldn’t be able to receive treatment in jail.

“This is a man who was at a point of crisis that night,” he said, referring to the Aug. 11 attack, in which he allegedly pushed, dragged and threatened to kill victim Paneez Kosarian.

Vincent has been charged with attempted robbery, false imprisonment and battery for the attack.

Assistant District Attorney Melody Bahai, who sought to keep Vincent in custody, called the attack “unprovoked and completely random.” Bahai then read a letter from Kosarian, in which she said although she wanted to be in court Thursday, she was still recovering from the attack and couldn’t “look her attacker in the eye.”

Kosarian, an immigrant from Iran, said because of the attack, she was afraid to leave her apartment and has nightmares.

“Now, I am scared and feel like I don’t have a voice. This city has abandoned me,” the letter read. “My life will never be the same.”

Moody cited a previous menacing charge involving a weapon from New York and remanded him into custody without bail.

Outside of court, Belbahri said, “I’m obviously disappointed by the court’s decision today. Jail is not the environment for people to receive the proper treatment that they need.”

Because The Watermark building is located next to the future site of the city’s SAFE Navigation Center, set to provide beds for as many 200 homeless residents, opponents of the center are using the case to renew their plea to stop it from opening.

Safe Embarcadero For All, a group made up of residents and business owners in the city’s South Beach neighborhood, last month filed a lawsuit against the city in Sacramento County Superior Court seeking to halt the opening. The group also is seeking a temporary restraining order and stay to keep the development from progressing while the suit is being litigated.

Outside of court, Wallace Lee, a Safe Embarcadero For All board member, said, “We’re happy that Mr. Vincent is in jail, being detained pending trial. We think that everyone in San Francisco who has seen the video knows Mr. Vincent poses a danger to the public and we’re glad that this judge has seen that.” Lee said, “But we’re still upset and disappointed that it took so long for this decision to come and it really highlights problems with the criminal justice system in San Francisco and the city’s inability to keep us safe.”

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/judge-orders-homeless-man-charged-with-embarcadero-attack-to-remain-in-custody/