Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/adam-schiff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Schiff</a> (D-CA) was robbed in San Francisco on Thursday before attending a dinner with wealthy backers of his Senate campaign, which caused him to show up to the event without a suit, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/car-burglars-snatch-rep-adam-schiff-s-luggage-19424026.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Chronicle reported that car thieves stole Schiff’s luggage, including his clothes, before he was set to speak at a dinner attended by lawyer Joe Cotchett, who is supporting Schiff’s Senate run against Republican candidate Steve Garvey. The race will determine who will occupy the seat occupied by Dianne Feinstein before she died. 
“Yes, they took my bags,” Schiff told the Chronicle when asked about the theft of his bag from a vehicle in a downtown San Francisco parking garage. “But I’m here to thank Joe.”
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The Democratic congressman and U.S. Senate candidate got a rude introduction to San Francisco’s vexing reputation for car burglaries Thursday when thieves swiped his bags from his car while it sat in a downtown parking garage. <a href="https://t.co/UCzY5ajWsG">https://t.co/UCzY5ajWsG</a>
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Cotchett, a top Democratic <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/search?order=desc&amp;q=joseph+cotchett&amp;sort=N&amp;type=donors">donor,</a> praised Schiff after the dinner, saying he would “change” the Senate. 
“Adam really showed himself tonight,” Cotchett said. “He’ll be a great senator — he’s going to change the Senate tremendously.”
The dinner took place at the Ristorante Rocca, an Italian restaurant in Burlingame, a city near San Francisco. 
“I guess it’s ‘Welcome to San Francisco,’” Cotchett’s press agent Lee Houskeeper told the Chronicle. Houskeeper added that Schiff could maybe go out shopping for new suits with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. 
“Maybe he can go out with Willie Brown to choose a new suit from one of the many fine clothing establishments in San Francisco,” he added.  “Willie knows them all.”
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The robbery comes as San Francisco has been riddled with crime in recent years after it moved to defund the police in the wake of the death of George Floyd. In July 2020, Mayor London Breed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sf-democrat-mayor-london-breed-after-backing-defunding-police-reverses-need-aggressive-policing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicated</a> that the city would be moving $100 million from the San Francisco Police Department to social justice programs. Breed later backtracked on her support for defunding the police, saying in December 2021 that the city needed to be tougher on crime. 
“It’s time that the reign of criminals who are destroying our city, it is time for it to come to an end,” Breed said. “And it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement, more aggressive with the changes in our policies, and less tolerant of all the bulls**t that has destroyed our city, we are going to turn this around.”

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The first target in any protracted military campaign is pretty much always infrastructure.
When the U.S. invaded Iraq with a &#8220;shock and awe&#8221; strategy, we hit the bridges right away. We did the same thing in Yugoslavia, Vietnam, and Korea. The reason for that is pretty simple: If you shut down transportation, you shut down the country.
The purpose of taking out bridges and airports isn&#8217;t to convince anyone that you&#8217;re right. It&#8217;s not a moral argument. The point is to disable your enemy as quickly as possible and to make them vulnerable to further attack.
After what happened yesterday, it&#8217;s clear that the domestic enemies of the United States — the ones we&#8217;ve imported and those our universities have indoctrinated — understand the importance of infrastructure very well. In a series of coordinated attacks, Hamas sympathizers stormed bridges and airports all over the country. I&#8217;m going to go through several of these attacks, and I&#8217;ll start with by far the most significant and longest-lasting interruption. It took place on both the Golden Gate Bridge and Interstate 880 in Oakland. Watch:
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So just a month ago, activists shut down the Bay Bridge. As you just heard, they delayed several organ donations. The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/motorist-stuck-bay-bridge-protest-describes-19085430.php">reported</a> that at least one person had a medical emergency while he was stuck in traffic. But nothing happened to any of the people responsible for that, they received something like five hours of community service. So yesterday, it happened again, this time on the Golden Gate Bridge and on the interstate.
News reports like this always say &#8220;protesters&#8221; are shutting down traffic. That&#8217;s accurate, but it only tells part of the story. The other part is that the political leaders in these cities are also choosing to shut down traffic by allowing the protesters to do it. It would be exceedingly easy to not only clear these blockades but also dissuade anyone from ever pulling a stunt like this again. All you would have to do is pull them off the road by force and then hit them with every criminal charge even vaguely applicable, including terrorism charges. Throw the whole book at just one of these people, one time, and it will never happen again. Give one of them prison time — real prison time, 15 years of prison time — and the problem is solved. 
Forever. Just like that. 
Instead, the authorities in California are doing the opposite. The last time this took place, they gave these criminals a few hours of community service.. This time they let them shut down one of the longest bridges in the country for five hours before making a single arrest. All told, 38 people were ultimately <a href="https://abc7news.com/pro-palestinian-protesters-shut-down-golden-gate-bridge-and-i-880-in-oakland/14668534/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Oakland interstate. They were hit with a variety of charges from false imprisonment to unlawful assembly.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1348-activists-who-shut-down-highways-aren-t-protesters-they-re-terrorists-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
None of those charges, it&#8217;s important to point out, carry a potential sentence of over a decade in prison. That kind of penalty is reserved for pro-life demonstrators who pray outside of abortion clinics and allegedly block access to the facility. If you do that, you get the predawn SWAT team raid from the DOJ and a very good chance you spend the next 10 years in prison. But if you sit on the highway for five hours and prevent thousands of people from getting where they need to go, then that&#8217;s not as big a deal. In fact, false imprisonment is the most serious charge that any of these demonstrators face, and the max you can get for that in California is something like four years. 
Of course, it&#8217;s virtually certain they&#8217;re not going to serve that time or even go to trial for any of this. They&#8217;ll all get community service and do the same thing again a month from now.
And that&#8217;s odd, even by the Biden administration&#8217;s own logic — because for all we know, there might have been people on these roads who were headed to get abortions. And they were delayed or even blocked from doing so. Will the DOJ look into the number of Californians who had to reschedule their abortions yesterday because their bridge was illegally shut down? Think of how many children might still be alive because of those protesters. Think about how many opportunities to murder babies were squandered. That&#8217;s the kind of thing that normally keeps Merrick Garland up at night.
If pro-lifers deserve a decade in prison for mildly inconveniencing people who are trying to access one abortion clinic in Nashville, these people deserve a century. But of course, they&#8217;re on the Left, so they can literally do whatever they want, all the time. Logic doesn&#8217;t really apply. There will be no DOJ probe into the organizers of this protest. There will be no RICO case against them.
But increasingly, it&#8217;s clear that there should be. <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/heres-why-the-golden-gate-bridge-i-880-shut-down/#:~:text=Protester%20organizer%20Ellen%20Caminiti%20sent,in%20Palestine%2C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According </a>to San Francisco&#8217;s local news station KRON, a woman named Ellen Caminiti was one of the &#8220;organizers&#8221; of the Golden Gate protest yesterday. She was apparently off-site, serving as a representative. I looked her up, and it turns out she&#8217;s the <a href="https://www.nclrights.org/about-us/who-we-are/ellen-caminiti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">communications director</a> at a nonprofit called the National Center for Lesbian Rights, or NCLR. So this is an organization that gets tax breaks to advance &#8220;lesbian rights,&#8221; and at 9:00 a.m. on a Monday, their communications director was organizing a criminal blockade of one of the most important bridges in the country. One of my producers reached out to Ellen Caminiti about this. She said, quote, &#8220;NCLR had no role in it, that is just my day-job, which is completely separate from this.&#8221; 
What&#8217;s confusing about that, again, is that this blockade took place first thing Monday morning. That counts as &#8220;during the day.&#8221; So it sounds like Ellen Caminiti&#8217;s &#8220;day job&#8221; is shutting down infrastructure in San Francisco in the name of &#8220;Palestinian solidarity.&#8221; We followed up with NCLR to ask them about this. We wanted to know if they had any reaction whatsoever to their employee assisting in a criminal blockade during the workday. They didn&#8217;t respond to that question. All they said is that they had nothing to do with the blockade.
You&#8217;d think that, if NCLR disagreed with what their employee did during work hours, they&#8217;d fire her immediately. At the very least they&#8217;d condemn what she did. Especially given that she did it on behalf of Hamas, a group that would happily toss everyone in the organization off of a rooftop. But no such luck. 
That&#8217;s because NCLR, like many so-called Left-wing &#8220;public interest nonprofits,&#8221; isn&#8217;t really working in the public interest at all. It&#8217;s a tax shelter that employs unhinged activists who want to destroy this country. They should lose their tax-exempt nonprofit status immediately. Nonprofits aren&#8217;t supposed to have anything remotely to do with criminal activity, and it definitely sounds like, at a minimum, they&#8217;re tacitly endorsing exactly that. But, of course, there will be no DOJ investigation, at least not under the Biden administration, because the Biden administration wants these kinds of blockades to occur. That&#8217;s why they took place all day yesterday, all over the country.
In Seattle, demonstrators blocked access to the airport, forcing travelers to walk to the terminal. 
In New York, thugs stormed the Brooklyn Bridge. 
In Chicago, they blocked the highway leading to O&#8217;Hare airport. 
In Dearborn Michigan, a caravan of Hamas sympathizers backed up traffic. 
In Fremont California, they attacked a Tesla production facility, apparently because of Elon Musk&#8217;s tweets, forcing the plant to declare an emergency and close. 
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In all of these cases, except for the situation in Fremont, there wasn&#8217;t much of a police response, at least not initially. In Seattle, officers eventually arrested the people blockading the roadway. Julio Rosas reports that on the Brooklyn Bridge, the NYPD made an effort to stop the demonstrators, and succeeded in stopping about half of them. But traffic was still disrupted. 
As far as I can tell, the only decisive reaction to these riots took place in Miami, where police hauled away the demonstrators the moment they broke the law. Watch:
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Well, look at that. The police just drag them away. It&#8217;s not hard. It takes a few minutes, and the whole city is no longer held hostage by a handful of terrorists. Just throw them in jail and make an example of them. 
Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; communications director uploaded the footage you just saw, along with this <a href="https://x.com/BryanDGriffin/status/1779972576422322354">message:</a> &#8220;In Florida, we drag these people out of the road and arrest them.&#8221;
That&#8217;s obviously the right response, as rare as it may be. And when police don&#8217;t do this, immediately, then citizens have every right to do it themselves. Senator Tom Cotton put it <a href="https://x.com/TomCottonAR/status/1780039918737121502">this way</a>, &#8220;I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way. It&#8217;s time to put an end to this nonsense.&#8221;
Of course, the problem with what Tom Cotton said is that, if someone does take matters into their own hands, there&#8217;s a very good chance they&#8217;ll spend the rest of their life in prison. The Biden DOJ will destroy them. They will do nothing to protect innocent people from these terrorists. But the moment someone tries to take action — even if it&#8217;s justified — then the feds will hunt them down. It&#8217;s almost like that&#8217;s what the Biden administration wants to happen at this point.
It appears to be what the NYPD wants. Yesterday, police officers didn&#8217;t have much of a reaction when a Hamas sympathizer lit an American flag on fire and shouted &#8220;Death to America,&#8221; right in front of about five cops. He just walked away. Watch:
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Now, if you call yourself &#8220;America first&#8221; — and a lot of people do now — it goes without saying that you should be stridently opposed to people who shout &#8220;death to America,&#8221; burn American flags, and go out of their way to cause problems for American citizens. If your &#8220;America first&#8221; principles somehow find common cause with people who wish death on America and its people, that&#8217;s a good indication that you are, at best, very confused. But that confusion needs to end at this point. This is well past the realm of online trolling. There are now coordinated attacks occurring all over the country targeting its infrastructure.
You hear a lot of people say, &#8220;Why would these people do this? They&#8217;re not going to convince anyone to support their cause by blocking traffic or shutting down the airport!&#8221; Well, yeah. That&#8217;s because the objective of Hamas sympathizers living in this country isn&#8217;t to convince you of anything. 
Disrupting infrastructure — as always — is just the first phase in a much larger campaign they have planned. And unless more states follow Florida&#8217;s lead and shut this down immediately, then very soon, we&#8217;ll find out what the next phase is.

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Activists Who Shut Down Highways Aren’t ‘Protesters.’ They’re Terrorists.

Activists Who Shut Down Highways Aren't 'Protesters.' They're Terrorists.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-airlines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Airlines</a> plane flying to Mexico had to make an emergency landing in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> on Friday due to a “hydraulic failure.”
The plane, an Airbus A320 carrying around 110 people, was flying from San Francisco to Mexico City when it made an emergency stop at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday afternoon after a &#8220;complete hydraulic failure” was <a href="https://abc7.com/united-flight-makes-emergency-landing-at-los-angeles-international-airport-after-reports-of-suspected-hydraulics-failure/14505488/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The emergency landing took place at around 4:30 p.m. local time. 
&#8220;The flight landed safely and passengers were deplaned normally at the gate,&#8221; United said, noting that passengers would be transferred to a different plane to complete their trip. 
United said that it appeared that one of the hydraulic systems was down. “This aircraft type has three hydraulic systems for redundancy purposes. Preliminary information shows there was only an issue with one system on this aircraft,” the airline said. 
The Federal Aviation Administration announced that it will be investigating the incident which comes as United has faced a series of airplane related mishaps this week.  
Earlier on Friday, a United Airlines Boeing 737 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-airlines-boeing-737-goes-off-runway-in-houston" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went off</a> the runway and got stuck in the grass at the George W. Bush Airport in Houston, Texas. The 160 people on board all had to be evacuated from the craft. 
A day before, on Thursday, a United Airlines plane <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/united-plane-loses-tire-takeoff-san-francisco-international-airport/3475104/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taking off</a> from San Francisco International Airport lost a tire, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tire-falls-off-united-boeing-flight-during-takeoff-damages-multiple-cars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plunged to the ground</a> and damaged vehicles in a parking lot. The plane, bound for Japan, was diverted to Los Angeles.
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Finally, on Monday a United Airlines flight that took off from Houston to Fort Myers was forced to turn around after one of its engines erupted in flames. United Flight 1118 was in the air less than 15 minutes before it had to turn around, according to data from FlightAware.
“United flight 1118 returned to Houston shortly after takeoff due to an engine issue,” the airline said in a statement. “The flight landed safely, and the passengers deplaned normally. We arranged for a new aircraft to take our customers to their destination, which departed for Fort Myers later that evening.”
The incidents come as conservatives have raised concerns about the integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion into the airline industry at the cost of competency.

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A tire fell off of a United Airlines flight in San Francisco on Thursday afternoon and damaged multiple cars in a nearby parking lot.
United Flight 35, which was supposed to be headed to Japan, landed safely in Los Angeles after the incident, according to a local NBC News affiliate. The Boeing 777-200 has six tires on its two sets of rear landing gear.
There were 249 people on board, including passengers, pilots, and flight attendants.
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here is video of a tire falling off a united flight today at SFO
this comes one month after a wheel fell off a Delta plane in atlanta just prior to takeoff <a href="https://t.co/OrednBxQ7g">pic.twitter.com/OrednBxQ7g</a>
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This is the second major incident from just this week that the airline has had to deal with.
A United Airlines flight that took off from Houston to Fort Myers on Monday was forced to turn around after one of its engines erupted in flames.
United Flight 1118 was in the air less than 15 minutes before it had to turn around, according to data from FlightAware.
&#8220;United flight 1118 returned to Houston shortly after takeoff due to an engine issue,&#8221; the airline said in a statement. &#8220;The flight landed safely, and the passengers deplaned normally. We arranged for a new aircraft to take our customers to their destination, which departed for Fort Myers later that evening.&#8221;
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The FAA is investigating a mechanical issue on a United Airlines flight that caused flames to shoot from the rear of an engine minutes after takeoff on Monday. <a href="https://t.co/jrwnIglEGT">https://t.co/jrwnIglEGT</a> <a href="https://t.co/8VoCBoDHfk">pic.twitter.com/8VoCBoDHfk</a>
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The airline only offered passengers a $15 meal voucher and a $200 travel credit for experiencing the traumatic ordeal.
&#8220;I remember there was just this bright, flashing light that came through the window, and it sounded like a bomb went off, and then it was just a strobe of fire out the window,&#8221; one passenger told ABC 13. &#8220;And then it just turned into chaos. People were screaming and crying and trying to figure out what was going on.&#8221;
Another passenger said that everyone thought that they were going to die and that he emailed his wife that he loved her and she should feel free to move on.
This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.

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The City of San Francisco has issued a formal apology to its black residents for what it calls &#8220;decades of systemic and structural discrimination.&#8221;
On Tuesday, city supervisors <a href="https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-black-reparations-apology-8967c828a52c8ce6ac08c77027a23187" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> unanimously 11-0 in favor of a resolution containing the city&#8217;s formal apology to black San Franciscans.
&#8220;This historic resolution apologizes on behalf of San Francisco to the African American community and their descendants for decades of systemic and structural discrimination, targeted acts of violence, atrocities, as well as committing to the rectification and redress of past policies and misdeeds,&#8221; said Supervisor Shamann Walton, the sole black member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
&#8220;We have much more work to do, but this apology most certainly is an important step,&#8221; Walton said.
Despite its leftist politics, San Francisco is not the first U.S. city to issue a formal apology for racism.
In 2022, Boston became the first major city to issue a formal apology for its role in slavery. A city council resolution that passed in a unanimous vote <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/06/17/1105824756/boston-takes-rare-step-of-apologizing-for-its-role-in-slavery-and-its-lasting-ha" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condemned</a> the &#8220;dastardliness&#8221; of slavery and the city&#8217;s legacy of &#8220;systemic white supremacy and racism.&#8221;
San Francisco&#8217;s formal apology is one of the less expensive proposals put forward by the city&#8217;s African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which was set up in 2020 by the Board of Supervisors.
The committee came up with the idea of giving each qualifying black resident <a href="https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-black-reparations-5-million-36899f7974c751950a8ce0e444f86189">$5 million in reparations</a> and a guaranteed income of nearly $100,000 a year.
However, the chairman of the committee <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/27/san-francisco-reparations-black-5-million/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> they did not use a mathematical formula to come up with the $5 million number.
John Dennis, chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/27/san-francisco-reparations-black-5-million/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last year that he was open to a conversation about reparations but criticized the committee’s report as unserious.
“This is just a bunch of like-minded people who got in the room and came up with a number,” Dennis said last February. “You’ll notice in that report, there was no justification for the number, no analysis provided. This was an opportunity to do some serious work and they blew it.”
Meanwhile, California in 2020 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-60-of-california-voters-oppose-cash-reparations-for-slavery-poll">established</a> its own Reparations Task Force whose goal was to determine what cash slavery reparations could look like for black Californians.
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In June, California’s task force sent its final <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/full-ca-reparations.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> to the legislature. The report suggested several remedies for slavery, including monetary payments for the descendants of African American slaves <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/30/sparks-fly-at-californias-final-reparations-task-force-meeting-nows-the-time-for-a-divorce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amounting</a> to $1.2 million for some people.
California voters are against cash reparations for slavery by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a September poll.
Nearly 60% of California voters said they oppose cash reparations payments, compared with 28% who said they would support it, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-60-of-california-voters-oppose-cash-reparations-for-slavery-poll">poll</a> from the University of California Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found.

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San Francisco Issues Formal Apology To Black Residents For ‘Decades’ Of Discrimination

San Francisco Issues Formal Apology To Black Residents For 'Decades' Of Discrimination

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A San Francisco hardware and paint store placed a table to block entrance to shoppers with a note instructing them to wait for a store employee to accompany them because of rampant crime.
Fredericksen Hardware &amp; Paint in San Francisco has been plagued by incessant shoplifting. The store is located in the Cow Hollow district, which is described this way by <a href="https://www.compass.com/neighborhood-guides/sf/cow-hollow/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compass.com</a>: “Cow Hollow is one of San Francisco’s most well-known and desirable neighborhoods, featuring world-class boutique shopping, a diverse housing market and easy proximity to recreation and work. Blessed with quiet residential streets and ample entertainment opportunities, Cow Hollow sits atop the wish lists of a variety of San Franciscans, from new families to long-established members of the city’s upper class.”
“Please wait for assistance. Thank you,” the paper on the table at Fredericksen states. “Attention shoppers: Due to the rampant shoplifting, Fredericksen has introduced a One-On-One shopping experience. Wait here and a clerk will be right with you to help you with all your shopping needs. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.”
“It’s pretty bad. I mean, the dollar amounts are pretty significant. And with the tools, and now we’re getting snatch-and-grabs, when they come in and take whole displays, so it’s getting kind of dangerous for the employees and the customers,” store manager Sam Black stated to KRON 4, explaining that the store had to take such measures because police and local officials were not helping them sufficiently.
Black said two hours every morning and two hours every evening an employee will work with any potential customer. “We just want to make it uncomfortable for the thieves so they go somewhere else,” Black said, adding, “People aren’t happy; the regulars, they can’t believe it. We can’t believe it. But they’ve been really understanding.”
“We had to do something,” he concluded.
The store has been implementing the current procedure for three weeks; Black stated that the store will review the results after one month.
Black said that in the 24 years he has worked at the store — which was founded in 1896 — the theft has been the worst he has ever seen. Pots and pans have been drilled into fixtures to keep them from being stolen. Locking systems have also been installed.
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San Francisco store now making customers shop with employee escort to stop &#39;rampant shoplifting&#39; | “We just want to make it uncomfortable for the thieves so they go somewhere else.&quot;
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Former NBA star forward <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/">Charles Barkley</a> slammed the city of San Francisco during the live broadcast of the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday. 
While covering the game on TNT’s alternate broadcast, Barkley discussed the 2024 All-Star game location in Indianapolis with several other analysts, including Indiana Pacers legend Reggie Miller and Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors. Green got the conversation rolling when he complained about the frigid temperatures in Indianapolis over the weekend. 
“Hey Reggie we love you, let’s not have another All-Star [game] in Indiana. Let’s let this be the last one, my friend,” Green said. 
Then Barkley took a shot at San Francisco, the home of Green’s Warriors. 
“Hey Reggie, if you had a chance of being in the cold, or being around a bunch of homeless crooks in San Francisco, which would you take?” Barkley asked, sparking the ire of the other analysts. 
“We love San Francisco,” commentator Candace Parker said. 
“No we don’t,” Barkley shot back. “You can’t even walk around down there.” 
Green, who appeared frustrated with Barkley’s criticism of the Bay Area, replied, “Yes, you can walk around!” 
“Yeah with a bulletproof vest,” Barkley said. 
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Barkley, who makes a habit of commenting on political issues and slamming both the Right and the Left, has criticized San Francisco in the past. During Game 4 of the 2022 NBA Finals between the Warriors and the Dallas Mavericks, the roof at American Airlines Arena in Dallas began leaking during a rain storm, causing the game to be delayed. Barkley said the worst part about the rain in Dallas was that it wasn’t raining in San Francisco.
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&#8220;The bad thing about all this rain, it’s not raining in San Francisco to clean up those dirty-a** streets they got there,&#8221; Barkley <a href="https://www.fox29.com/news/nba-legend-charles-barkley-blasts-san-francisco-saying-its-full-of-homeless-crooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;San Francisco, it’s a great city, but all that dirtiness and homelessness, y’all gotta clean that off the streets.&#8221;
Authorities in San Francisco, a city that has experienced record <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/downtown-is-for-drug-users-pro-drug-use-campaign-appears-in-san-francisco-amid-record-overdose-deaths" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overdose deaths</a> and a continuing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-san-francisco-supervisor-admits-city-has-a-homeless-problem-blames-capitalism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">homeless problem</a> in recent months, were slammed in November for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-clears-homeless-camps-ahead-of-international-summit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clearing</a> homeless encampments and open-air drug markets before top world leaders, including Chinese President Xi Xinping, arrived in the city for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (APEC).
San Francisco is set to host the <a href="https://www.nba.com/warriors/2025-allstar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2025 NBA All-Star Weekend</a> with the All-Star Game taking place at the Warriors’ Chase Arena.

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A low-performing Bay Area elementary school saw its student achievement dip even further after introducing &#8220;Woke Kindergarten.&#8221;
Glassbrook Elementary School in Hayward paid $250,000 for a company called Woke Kindergarten to train its teachers in topics like white supremacy and oppression, the San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/woke-kindergarten-glassbrook-hayward-18635504.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
To pay Woke Kindergarten, the school used federal funds — money from a federal program meant to help boost test scores for the country’s lowest-performing schools, the Chronicle reported.
Woke Kindergarten&#8217;s curriculum, which can be used with any of Glassbrook Elementary&#8217;s 474 students, includes a “woke word of the day,” words like “strike,” “ceasefire” and “protest.” This is meant to introduce children to a “language of the resistance” or a “liberatory vocabulary in a way that they can easily digest, understand and most importantly, use in their critiques of the system.”
On its website, Woke Kindergarten <a href="https://www.wokekindergarten.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> its goal is &#8220;supporting children, families, educators and organizations in their commitment to abolitionist early education and pro-black and queer and trans liberation.&#8221;
The company&#8217;s founder is a former teacher who goes by &#8220;they/them&#8221; pronouns and self-describes as “an abolitionist early educator, cultural organizer and creator currently innovating ways to resist, heal, liberate and create with their pedagogy, Woke Kindergarten.”
Glassbrook has been using Woke Kindergarten for two years of a three-year contract so far.
In the meantime, the school&#8217;s flagging student achievement has become even more dismal.
English and math scores have both declined four percentage points each. Less than 4% of students were proficient in math, and less than 12% of students were proficient in English as of last spring.
Most of Glassbrook&#8217;s students are low-income. Two-thirds of the students have English as a second language, and more than 80% are Hispanic.
The school has been on a state watch list for improvement since 2020. This school year it was bumped back down to the lowest-performing level.
Some Glassbrook teachers have raised issues with Woke Kindergarten, charging it with being too heavy on progressive activism.
A white teacher who raised an issue with the training sessions described himself as a &#8220;gay moderate&#8221; and previously sued the school district for allegedly stopping him from talking about his husband and LGBT history.
He said he asked what &#8220;disrupt whiteness&#8221; means for a third grade classroom and was temporarily banned from the training sessions. The teacher also said he was told the sessions were “not a place to express white guilt.”
The same teacher said he asked questions during a session where a trainer used the phrase “so-called United States.” He also questioned lessons on Woke Kindergarten&#8217;s website called “Lil’ Comrade Convos” and some talking about a world without police, money, or landlords.
“It slowly became very apparent if you were a dissenting voice that it’s not what they wanted to hear,” a different teacher said. “Our reading scores are low &#8230; That could have gotten us a reading interventionist.”
Hayward Superintendent Jason Reimann said the decision to hire Woke Kindergarten was more about boosting attendance rather than improving test scores, saying that, “helping students feel safe and whole is part and parcel of academic achievement.”
&#8220;We are in favor 100% of abolishing systems of oppression where they hold our students back,&#8221; he told the Chronicle. &#8220;What I do believe is we should pick providers based on their work and how effective they are.&#8221;
“I get that it’s more money than we would have liked to have spent,” the superintendent said.
Glassbrook Elementary and the school district more broadly both saw a similar improvement in attendance last year, with 44% of students chronically absent last year compared to 61% the year before.
Other Bay Area schools have tried a different approach. One San Francisco elementary school started a math intervention program that has raised the math proficiency rate from 15% to 50%.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco&#8217;s</a> budget deficit could hit $1.4 billion, city officials are warning, as the city struggles with out-of-control homelessness and drugs on its streets.
Businesses have fled office buildings and storefronts downtown, where an open-air drug market thrives every day depriving the city by the bay of taxes it relied on and leaving it in a tight spot.
On Wednesday, Mayor London Breed’s budget director laid out the grim situation during a budget presentation.
“This is not going to be a positive presentation today. We’re in a tough spot,” budget director Anna Duning said, The San Francisco Standard <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/17/san-francisco-budget-deficit-1-4-billion-cuts-london-breed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The city&#8217;s budget deficit could reach nearly $1.4 billion by 2027, officials projected. The fiscal year starting in July will have a $245 million deficit, and next year, the deficit will likely top half a billion dollars.
Tax revenue from businesses, sales, hotels, parking, and property transfers has dropped by roughly 20%. Tourism also never fully recovered after the pandemic, adding to the city&#8217;s financial woes.
“What we saw during the pandemic was a seismic shift in the economic foundation of this city,” Duning said.
City employee costs are rising as well, particularly health care costs for employees, which <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/17/san-francisco-budget-deficit-1-4-billion-cuts-london-breed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> spiked nearly 10% this year. Meanwhile, 25,000 city workers have their contracts expiring at the end of June, and the new contract negotiations are expected to be tough.
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Initially, Breed had <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2023/05/31/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-record-spending-despite-780m-deficit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> record spending, especially on homelessness and the police department, but in December, she <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2023/12/13/san-francisco-budget-cuts-800-million-deficit-taxes-spending/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> city departments to prepare for 10% budget cuts.
On Wednesday, Supervisor Connie Chan said, “the decisions we make today, in this fiscal year and in the next fiscal year, is actually really critical.”
San Francisco has been in the throes of a homelessness and drug crisis that has come with rampant crime for years now. The city consistently struggles to make a dent in the humanitarian crisis unfolding every day on the streets.
Homelessness has only gotten worse since before the pandemic. About 38,000 people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rising-crime-homelessness-leave-residents-of-san-francisco-and-oakland-on-edge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are homeless</a> in the Bay Area on a given night. That’s up 35% since 2019. More than 7,000 people are homeless in San Francisco itself.
San Francisco also has a deadly drug crisis driven by fentanyl, and the city saw record fatal overdoses last year. A total of 752 people died from drug overdoses in San Francisco between January and November, more deaths than in any other year, preliminary data from the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/05/san-francisco-drug-users-tenderloin-posters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a>.
Overall crime was down last year, but certain types of crime were up, including car thefts, San Francisco police data <a href="https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crime-dashboard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a>. Compared to 2019 before the pandemic, however, many types of crime are still elevated, including murders, robberies, burglary, and arson.

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The following is an excerpt taken from the new book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1668046075?tag=simonsayscom">Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris In The White House</a>,” by Charlie Spiering (Threshold Editions/Simon &amp; Schuster).
<h4>Kamala The Cop</h4>
“We recognized &#8230; as a prosecutor in law enforcement I have a huge stick.” — Kamala Harris, January 14, 2010
Kamala Harris made history as the first black district attorney elected in San Francisco. The inaugural ceremony showcased her multicultural background. Harris took her oath of office on a bound copy of the Bill of Rights instead of the Bible, held proudly by her mother. The Black National Anthem was performed at the ceremony as well as the traditional National Anthem. A Hindu priest, Pandit Nageshwara Subramaniam Shastri, performed an ashirvadam ritual blessing and a Christian minister also offered a prayer. A traditional Asian dragon dance was performed by the Kei Lun Martial Arts group. Harris delivered her inaugural speech with her canned campaign slogan.
“Let’s put an end, right here, to the question of whether we are tough on crime or soft on crime. Let us be smart on crime,” she said.
As district attorney, Harris’s vow to be “smart on crime” appeared more like “smart on politics,” as she carefully threaded her narrative to appear competent but progressive. It had mixed results. Often vowing personal and hands-on attention to important issues, Harris typically allowed issues to fade out when public attention waned. Rather than tackle monumental change, she appeared better at proposing and promoting new ideas rather than achieving results. When things went wrong in her office she feigned ignorance, blaming her staff for not keeping her informed. She became an expert at pandering to activists but also finding new ways to burnish her role as a tough law enforcement figure in California as she prepared to further her political career.
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Despite running a campaign to the right of Hallinan, Harris began as a progressive. After just four months on the job, Harris took one of the toughest public stands of her career with a decision that damaged her relationship with law enforcement officers for years afterward. On the evening of April 10, 2004, two police officers approached two men acting suspiciously. One of them, a gang member, turned around and shot twenty-nine-year-old undercover police officer Isaac Espinoza with fourteen rounds from an AK-47. Police officers were heartbroken as they watched Espinoza’s wife and three-year-old daughter at the funeral, and demanded the death penalty for his killer. But Harris had vowed to oppose the death penalty during her campaign and planned to stick with her position. She tried to win over the law enforcement community and the Espinoza family by issuing a statement.
“Today I want to be very clear: in the city and county of San Francisco, anyone who murders a police officer engaged in his or her duties will be met with the most severe consequences,” Harris said. The most severe consequence, however, was ruled out. Harris was not going to change her mind on the death penalty, not even after a police officer was shot in the streets. The police union was furious as officers would turn their backs to Harris when she appeared in public. Espinoza’s mother was devastated. “She made the decision after just three days. My son wasn’t even in the ground yet,’’ Carol Espinoza said afterward.
Former mayor of San Francisco and now Senator Dianne Feinstein felt differently. She appeared at Espinoza’s funeral at St. Mary’s Cathedral and berated Harris’s decision while she sat in the audience. “This is not only the definition of tragedy, it’s the special circumstance called for by the death penalty law,” Feinstein said as the police officers gave her a standing ovation. After the service, Feinstein dug the knife in deeper, telling reporters she would have never endorsed Harris if she had known she would be so rigid on opposing the death penalty. Harris felt betrayed, but her commitment to opposing the death penalty was firm.
Harris the progressive also turned a blind eye to violent protesters. For the first anniversary of the war in Iraq, Harris was faced with the problem of antiwar protesters who were arrested for violent disruptive behavior. San Francisco police arrested 124 of them for breaking the law, including some that had assaulted police officers. Whereas Hallinan, a year earlier, famously dragged his feet and ultimately dismissed the charges against violent protesters, Harris vowed to personally review each case. It did not matter. Days later, Harris dropped the charges, asserting that the burden of proof could not be met in any of the cases, despite detailed evidence captured on video.
After campaigning on competence and commitment, Harris looked even more “smart on crime” as she began manipulating the numbers on conviction. If the district attorney prosecutes fewer cases and brings them to trial, the conviction rate goes up. The conviction rate also goes up when the prosecutor offers plea deals instead of taking it to court. Although she vowed to personally engage the backlog of murder cases, she gradually dismissed them at an astonishing rate. Harris began offering generous plea bargain deals to defendants, even those arrested for murder. Of the backlog of 73 homicide cases on Hallinan’s watch, Harris cut a deal for 32 of them and only convicted 15 of the defendants for murder. As a result, Harris boasted higher conviction rates even though she was bringing fewer cases to trial. Harris was also offering plea deals to gun offenders. During her first three years as district attorney, San Francisco’s conviction rate jumped from 52 to 67 percent, which looked good on paper but baffled police officers. Police officers making the arrests and filing casework found their efforts abandoned by a prosecutor who appeared less committed to justice than she was to her political future. It worked. By 2005, Oprah Winfrey featured “superstar prosecutor Kamala Harris” on her morning show, boasting of her “90 percent conviction rate” and praising her as California’s “first African American female district attorney.” (Harris boasted about her “90 percent conviction rate” but it was only her record in homicide cases, not all criminal cases.)
Harris was quietly in the middle on most issues important to San Francisco residents. In 2004, she refused to prosecute a series of high-publicized police arrests for prostitution at a local strip club but went on the record in 2008 to oppose Proposition K, a ballot measure put to voters that would decriminalize prostitution in the city of San Francisco. “I think it’s completely ridiculous, just in case there’s any ambiguity about my position,” Harris said about the proposition. “It would put a welcome mat out for pimps and prostitutes to come on into San Francisco.”
Harris also publicly promoted an advertising campaign for San Francisco’s sanctuary city status in 2008, reminding illegal immigrants they would not be treated as criminals for their immigration status, but she used the law to deport violent criminals. Harris defended a ballot proposition to legalize medical marijuana but defended federal raids on some of the “out of control” distributors in the city. Her cautious strategy worked. In 2007, Harris ran for reelection without a challenger — the first time that had happened in San Francisco since 1991 — after collecting more than $500,000 in donations and lining up her endorsements. It was the kind of victory that encouraged her to dream about higher office.
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Charlie Spiering began his career as a political journalist fifteen years ago as a reporter for Washington Post columnist Robert D. Novak. He was a political writer for the Washington Examiner before moving to Breitbart News as a White House correspondent covering the Obama Administration, the Trump Administration, and the Biden Administration. He lives in Virginia with his wife and six children.
This excerpt is taken from the new book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1668046075?tag=simonsayscom">Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris In The White House</a>,” by Charlie Spiering. Copyright © 2024 by Charlie Spiering. Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon &amp; Schuster, Inc. Reprinted by permission.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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Flyers promoting drug use and criticizing cops popped up in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco&#8217;s</a> downtown area this week, posted by a group claiming to represent drug users.
A six-person group called the Drug User Liberation Collective <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/05/san-francisco-drug-users-tenderloin-posters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> the signs in the city&#8217;s Tenderloin neighborhood, which is notorious for being rife with open-air drug use.
“Downtown is for drug users,” reads one of the signs. “Yea we buy drugs and do drugs here. A lot of us don&#8217;t have housing, so we don&#8217;t have a choice in the matter.&#8221;
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&#8220;It’s very literally not hurting you, your business, or the economy,” the sign continues. &#8220;But it could seem like it because of all the stigma and misinformation out there.&#8221;
The poster also slammed Mayor London Breed by name, accusing the mayor of &#8220;targeting our communities in order to build political power.&#8221;
Breed has spearheaded a crackdown on public drug use and drug dealing that has <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/critics-slam-san-francisco-mayors-crackdown-on-drug-users-raising-human-rights-concerns/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resulted</a> in more arrests.
“Anti-drug user culture and laws = white supremacy,” another sign reads, noting that black people die from overdoses at several times the rate of white people in San Francisco.
The campaign was created by Nova Schultz, who is referred to as &#8220;they&#8221; in an <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/05/san-francisco-drug-users-tenderloin-posters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with the San Francisco Standard and previously used a different name. Schultz is a self-described “drug user in recovery” and a clinician for a downtown mental health organization.
“Our lives are inherently criminalized. It’s illegal to be us,” Schultz told the outlet. “People who use drugs are not morally corrupt.”
Schultz also argued that criminal activity associated with drug use is due to drugs being illegal.
The Drug User Liberation Collective wants drug laws to stop being enforced. The group also wants supervised drug-use facilities and a regulated “safe supply” of drugs, Schultz said.
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San Francisco is suffering from a deadly drug crisis and saw record fatal overdoses last year.
A total of 752 people died from drug overdoses in San Francisco between January and November, more deaths than in any other year, preliminary data from the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/05/san-francisco-drug-users-tenderloin-posters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a>.
The overdose crisis is driven by fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid that is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-sees-biggest-fentanyl-bust-in-sheriffs-office-history">about</a> 50 times more potent than heroin, is inexpensive to make, and easily transported. Fentanyl has been increasingly smuggled over the southern border into the U.S. by Mexican cartels.
San Francisco has has poured <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/tenderloin-drug-arrests-18327055.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">millions</a> of dollars into addressing addiction and overdoses, including a “safe consumption” site in the Tenderloin neighborhood that ran for about 11 months in 2022. The site was closed amid concerns over how much it was costing taxpayers, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/tenderloin-drug-arrests-18327055.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaints</a> from nearby residents about the neighborhood deteriorating, and its failure to connect many addicts with drug treatment programs.
Homelessness has only <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-sees-record-drug-overdose-deaths-in-august-like-a-zombie-apocalypse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gotten worse</a> in the city since before the pandemic. About 38,000 people are homeless in the Bay Area on a given night, up 35% since 2019.

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‘Downtown Is For Drug Users:’ Pro-Drug Use Campaign Appears In San Francisco Amid Record Overdose Deaths

'Downtown Is For Drug Users:' Pro-Drug Use Campaign Appears In San Francisco Amid Record Overdose Deaths

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