There has been a series of officer-involved shootings in the Bay Area since late Tuesday night, when a San Jose Police officer's shoot-out with an alleged robber set off a spate of four armed confrontations between cops and suspects.
Since then we have seen the fatal shooting of: 46-year-old Vinh Bui, who was allegedly brandishing a knife, by San Francisco police; a woman in Oakland at the hands of San Leandro Police following a car chase; and a Hayward resident who was gunned down outside a trailer around 9 a.m. today after allegedly trying to use some form of weapon (as yet undisclosed) against an officer.
Being the pizza man ain't a picnic.
The hours are long, the wages are short, and your only cinematic role model is Bill Maher. Also -- it's dangerous.
We wrote about an instance in which a 60-year-old deliveryman was beaten up and relieved of his pizza earlier this month. Last night, in what appears to be a more coolly organized affair, a 54-year-old pizza man was held up at gunpoint and deprived of five pies and cash.
Stephen Buel, the longtime editor of the East Bay Express abruptly ousted by the paper's majority owner earlier this month, wasn't out of work long.
Buel tells SF Weekly he's going to work for the San Francisco Examiner. "I am quite excited about that," he adds. Buel retains "a mighty 13 percent" ownership of the Express.
It's an interesting career move, and one that portends that there is a future for alt-weekly journalists -- though perhaps not at alt-weekly papers.
Yesterday marked Chris Daly's official transfer from dealing with drunks and loonies in City Hall to dealing with them in his new bar.
But City Hall may not be entirely in his rearview mirror. Some of Daly's soon-to-be former government colleagues wondered if the liquor license for his bar might ever be ruled upon by the Board of Supervisors. "That would be a lot of fun," they said.
When contacted, Inspector Dave Falzon, the head of the police liaison unit with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, also remarked "That would be a lot of fun." But could it happen? Falzon dived into the file to find out.
When a roomful of grimly unsmiling, gun-toting, uniformed police officers say they want everyone to "have fun," it goes without saying a definition of what is "fun" is forthcoming.
Or, perhaps more accurately, here's what the San Francisco Police Department this morning announced to the gathered media is not fun:
UPDATE: More details emerge. See end
SF Weekly has learned from the city medical examiner's office that the man shot to death by San Francisco police when he allegedly approached an officer while brandishing a knife is San Francisco resident Vinh Bui, 46.
Police responded to a call that a 15-year-old girl was being attacked and entered a home in the 600 block of Bacon Street in the Portola neighborhood at around 4 p.m. yesterday. It is not yet known what relationship, if any, existed between Bui and the stabbing victim. The 15-year-old was treated and released for non-life-threatening stab wounds.
Happy New Year! And quite a year it's been for bicycles. Between all the new stripes and racks and parklets, we've suddenly catapulted into the future of cycling. Well, maybe not the future, since Europe is several decades ahead of us. Maybe just less of the past.
But there's still plenty of work to be done. What are your year-end cycling resolutions? I asked Renee Rivera of the SF Bike Coalition to reflect on the 2010 that was, and the 2011 to come.
The San Francisco medical examiner's office has identified the man shot to death by San Francisco police yesterday, but has not yet been able to connect with the man's family. As a result, the deceased stabbing suspect remains unnamed for the moment.
Police responded to a call that a 15-year-old girl was being attacked and entered a home in the 600 block of Bacon Street in the Portola neighborhood. The suspect allegedly approached an officer brandishing some manner of knife before being shot. The teenage stabbing victim he is suspected of attacking was treated for non-life-threatening wounds and released from the hospital.
Once again, you can't argue the San Francisco Police Department isn't offering drunken, antisocial motorists a sporting chance.
Only the most oblivious, besotted fools will fail to learn that on New Year's Eve, a sobriety checkpoint is planned for Eighth and Folsom between 8:30 and 3 a.m. Naturally, drunk driving is not encouraged. Especially in the vicinity of Eighth and Folsom.
