In reply to SB.

SB — 

Good-faith intellectual arguments made in a non-condescending manner are always welcome, regardless of your point of view. Bad-faith, condescending, dopey comments are a waste of everyone’s time. Hope that clears everything up.

JE

In reply to Joe Eskenazi.

When your rules say “please keep your comments short and civil,” it’s difficult to understand why the editor needs to sarcastically respond to the comments (“genius”). Shorty, yes. But civil? Of course, editorial may not agree with the comments, but the message to the reader seems to be “don’t comment unless you agree with the publication’s “worldview?”

Who’s running for Mayor ? X DA ? Only in a sane world…Happy Holidays,maybe next year.

In reply to **.

**

Say it with money.

I’m a poor man and I still give 10% of my monthly income on Katie Porter and Wikipedia and Mission Local and Manny’s and an online dating service that has gone dry.

ML is, like, ten dollars from reaching this year’s modest fundraising goals (they get some matching funds) so you be the one that pushes them over the top.

In reply to **.

For the most part, the Reader Comment section in the SF Chron is akin to a huge black hole that vicious dogs have fallen into, howling and snarling constantly. It’s full of the most willfully ignorant people who, unfortunately find their way to the comments section in Mission Local all too frequently.

“Pointing a shotgun at his face isn’t gonna help at all … makes it very difficult to communicate.” Whoever said this I’m sure it wasn’t Brooke Jenkins. But then, maybe the objective is not to communicate.

Red light red light means don’t shoot!!! Like a red traffic light it’s means stop. It’s usually followed by less lethal…meaning a bean bag gun is going to be used. This alerts near by officers that a “bang” will be heard when the less lethal round is fired and to not confuse it with a lethal round.

The comments section is often where the truth is told. Too bad the SFChron has chopped their comments page. (yeah, there was a lot of repetitive rubbish; but there was still some pearls the Chron won’t publish)\
Kudos Missionlocal.org

Is the District Attorney going to take Lucia at his word that he committed crimes and launch a criminal investigation?

In reply to Thomas Douting.

Mr. Douting,

The cops are usually right in cases you don’t hear about and wrong in those that you do.

They need to exchange a couple of dozen of their younger officers with Tawain and Rome and Tokyo and Istanbul and places they have earthquakes and are Sister Cities.

Kinda like a Peace Corps structure and they send a couple of dozen of theirs and over a few years we’ll have our own San Francisco International Mutual Aid Corps.

Basically it is the old Choice …

Revenge or Reform

What’s my goal ?

Well, I spent 40 years working in a variety of settings for incarcerating or otherwise isolating Middle School aged kids and …

Reform works and Revenge only makes it worse.

Numbers don’t lie.

But then, Joe O’Donoghue used to always say when I’d give him a state:

“Figures don’t lie but liars can figure.”

Where was I when I interrupted myself ?

In reply to Thomas Douting.

Hey, genius — 

I’m sorry the actual events that took place at trial didn’t comport to your worldview but we’re kinda obligated to cover the former and not the latter.

Best,

JE

Eleni,

You went to the two best defense lawyers in town instead of the Ivory Tower lookers-on.

Matt took on the likes of Donald Trump as President and there’s a book in here somewhere succeeded in a ‘Not Guilty’ by fact it was an accident when Zarate picked up that wrapped gun on the Pier and it went off and Trump has had his revenge as the innocent Jose Zarate is still in prison in Texas.

Randy Knox defends some of those rare high profile government officials unjustly accused of corruption or worse and was Treasurer of Matt’s 2003 run for Mayor for which there was a really cool party (Greens are always cool) at 111 Minna to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Matt for Mayor.

I was his ‘Propaganda Minister’ and will forever relish the memories.

Oh, cops taking the Fifth ?

I do recall once when David Waggoner was defending Tony Hall in front of the Ethics Commission (yes, actual trial) and Waggoner got the Prosecution’s Star Witness to take the Fifth Amendment.

Crooked Commission still fined Tony fifty bucks or something.

Same with Matt.

Last case they took from 2003 was for Matt and Michelle Monaghan sure kept good books for Randy Shaw.

Elect our Police Chief.

None of these guys plead anything on orders of Chief Scott.

They take orders from the SFPOA.

Which explains a lot.

Of course, if he hadn’t been waving a knife around at people, or had put it down as soon as the police arrived, whether they told him to or not, none of this would have happened. On the other hand, I am aware that Mission Local has to stick to its narrative that the SFPD and DA are nearly always wrong, and the “homeless”, especially if they are black or brown, are nearly always right, and typically victims, too. As for the Public Defender saying, “We are hoping to connect him to our social workers to get him reintegrated back into society”, yeah sure. I’m going to win the Lottery, too—any day now!

Cops, DA sartorial choices continue to be clown shoes and ass hats; mayor enables the fashions.

DA declined to give the officer Letter of Exoneration so that leaves him open for a criminal charge or IA charge. BS. There were a dozen other officers they could have called.