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San Francisco ‘Homeless Activists’ Target Restaurant With LGBT Flag-Painted Rock, Claims It’s An ‘Anti-Homeless’ Device

Emily Zanotti

A group of San Francisco “homeless advocates” are targeting a sushi restaurant in the city’s LGBT Castro neighborhood over a rock they say is actually a device being used to keep homeless people from setting up camp.

The “Coalition on Homelessness” — a San Francisco group that considers itself pro-homeless and pro-transient — issued a tweet late last week with a picture of the rock, which sits in a “zen garden” alcove in front of the sushi restaurant and is painted with the “gay pride” rainbow flag.

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