The man accused of beating <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/paul-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Pelosi</a> with a hammer made a phone call on Friday afternoon from jail in which he “apologized” for not getting “more of them.” 
David DePape, a 42-year-old with a reported history of mental illness, made the comments in a <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/depape-in-bizarre-phone-call-to-ktvu-says-he-should-have-been-more-prepared">call</a> to KTVU reporter Amber Lee following the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-footage-of-attack-on-paul-pelosi-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release of the body cam</a> footage showing the police response to the break-in at the Pelosi home. 
“I have an important message for everyone in America. You’re welcome. Freedom and liberty isn’t dying, it’s being killed systematically and deliberately. The people killing it have names and addresses so I got their names and addresses so I could pay them a little visit,” DePape said in the call. 
He said that he wanted to speak with “these people” about their bad behavior. 
“I want to apologize to everyone. I messed up. What I did was really bad. I’m so sorry I didn’t get more of them. It’s my own fault, no one else is to blame. I should have come better prepared,” he said. 
DePape also claimed that his freedom of speech was being violated and pointed to his own website, which he said contained “stuff they don’t want you to hear.” He made the phone call from San Francisco County Jail, where he is being held. DePape has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspected-paul-pelosi-attacker-david-depape-pleads-not-guilty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded not guilty</a> to charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and elder abuse.
The suspect, who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-suspect-who-attacked-paul-pelosi-is-an-illegal-immigrant-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> in the U.S. illegally, has been described as a troubled transient and nudist with extreme political views.
Additional security footage and the 911 call Pelosi made were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/additional-footage-emerges-showing-suspect-breaking-into-pelosi-home-911-call-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also released</a> on Friday, along with the police body cam footage. The 911 call appeared to show Pelosi subtly attempting to communicate to law enforcement that he was in danger as DePape was allegedly near him in the house.
“There’s a gentleman here just waiting for my wife to come back, Nancy Pelosi,” he said. “He’s just waiting for her to come back, but she’s not going to be here for days, so I guess we’ll have to wait.”
“He thinks everything’s good. I’ve got a problem, but he thinks everything’s good,” Pelosi added.
DePape, who has waived his right to a trial within 60 days, is set to appear in court again on Feb. 23.

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Man Accused Of Beating Paul Pelosi Says He’s ‘Sorry’ He ‘Didn’t Get More Of Them’ In Phone Call From Jail

Man Accused Of Beating Paul Pelosi Says He's 'Sorry' He 'Didn't Get More Of Them' In Phone Call From Jail

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On Friday, the San Francisco Police Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-footage-of-attack-on-paul-pelosi-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">finally released</a> bodycam footage from the night that Rep. Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s husband, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/paul-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul</a>, was allegedly attacked by David DePape — a reported illegal alien with mental problems. Shortly after, Fox News released additional security footage appearing to show DePape smashing a window to gain entry into Pelosi&#8217;s home.
Rather than showing a gay tryst as many have speculated was really occurring, the two bits of evidence appear to show that sometimes a deranged, hammer-wielding illegal alien is just a deranged, hammer-wielding illegal alien.
DePape has been in the United States since 2008, according to government records, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-should-deport-pelosi-attacker-and-all-other-illegal-aliens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overstayed a temporary visitor visa</a>. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already placed a detainer on the nudist activist. According to prosecutors, he attacked Pelosi on October 28 while attempting to kidnap his wife, who was not home at the time.
From the get-go, nothing about the story added up. Conspiracies flew and questions were raised.
Why didn&#8217;t the police respond to the incident sooner? Why didn&#8217;t Paul Pelosi run away when the door was opened after authorities got there? How come the victim spoke with DePape for so long? No security footage? Really?
It was all so weird, and rather than answers, the public was met with silence. It seemed that the San Francisco machine was rushing to cover up something obscene and embarrassing for the most powerful Democratic member of Congress.
Thanks to a court order, we can see that it might not necessarily be the case that anything beyond the official story was occurring.
The video below appears to show both DePape and Pelosi holding onto a hammer. DePape appears to grab Pelosi&#8217;s wrist, thus making it difficult for the 82-year-old Pelosi to get away. Per the video, the suspect then wrangles the hammer out of Pelosi&#8217;s right hand and proceeds to bludgeon him as police then rush into the house.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EXCLUSIVE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EXCLUSIVE</a> Just released police body camera video shows moments David DePape attacked Paul Pelosi at his# San Francisco home
WARNING: VIDEO IS GRAPHIC<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PaulPelosi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PaulPelosi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a><a href="https://twitter.com/nbcbayarea?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Nbcbayarea</a> <a href="https://t.co/rQZriBvOCm">pic.twitter.com/rQZriBvOCm</a>
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Now, if that were the only video related to this story it would be very bizarre. The questions would remain:
 Why didn&#8217;t the police rush in when they saw DePape? Is Pelosi drinking a beer? Why does it seem so nonchalant? How did DePape get in the house?
At least one of those questions can be answered thanks to Fox News.
Fox released an additional video allegedly showing that DePape seems to have broken in exactly as has been described. Based on the 9-1-1 audio, it seems as if Pelosi is trying to keep things calm while on the phone with police, so as to not anger the man standing right next to him watching his every move.
Both the home security footage and police camera can be seen here:
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And here is Paul Pelosi’s 911 call. <a href="https://t.co/IyHHfvPQcg">pic.twitter.com/IyHHfvPQcg</a>
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Now, if this were to happen in the middle of nowhere or in a city with law and order, then perhaps more speculation would be warranted.
Yet this occurred in San Francisco — a town that has been ruined by Democratic policies which invite insane people to live there. It&#8217;s a dump filled with weirdos. Is it really so wild to believe that a psycho who hangs on the fringes of society broke into the then-speaker&#8217;s home?
As a reminder, here&#8217;s what San Francisco looks like:
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San Francisco is filled with unpunished crime and people openly doing illegal drugs in tent cities. <a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShellenbergerMD</a> tells me progressive ideas, which he once supported, are a “recipe for disaster.” <a href="https://t.co/f0f4qyhXDy">pic.twitter.com/f0f4qyhXDy</a>
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Couldn&#8217;t it be that Pelosi, an octogenarian, didn&#8217;t act as swiftly as one would expect because he&#8217;s a frail old man?
Put yourself in that position. If a guy just broke into your house, seems like he wants to potentially kill your wife, and is holding a blunt object, zip ties, and more — and you didn&#8217;t have anything to defend yourself — wouldn&#8217;t you go along with his demands just to stay alive? Or would you do something that could get yourself killed? Is it really insane to believe that you wouldn&#8217;t try to sneak a phone call to the police, and then act dumb when the person holding you hostage catches you in the act?
The real question in all of this is why did NBC News suspend reporter Miguel Almaguer for an entirely accurate reporting of the story? Almageur published a video, which would have gone through editors and producers, detailing what happened. He was then subsequently suspended, the video was scrubbed, and all the public was told was that it didn&#8217;t meet editorial standards.
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Thanks to my friend <a href="https://twitter.com/gregkellyusa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GregKellyUSA</a> of <a href="https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Newsmax</a> for having me on the show last night to talk about NBC letting Miguel Almaguer out from wherever they were holding him after his report on Paul Pelosi that got him suspended. <a href="https://t.co/rmB5aoit97">pic.twitter.com/rmB5aoit97</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1602772987404464128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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It seems likely that Almaguer&#8217;s reporting didn&#8217;t meet editorial standards because Nancy, presumably, didn&#8217;t want any coverage of the incident for whatever reason.
But as for the DePape situation, as Sigmund Freud reportedly said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. There may not be anything else to it.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Sometimes A Deranged, Hammer-Wielding Illegal Alien Is Just A Deranged, Hammer-Wielding Illegal Alien

NBC News

A San Francisco art gallery owner hosed down a homeless woman whom he said refused to move from his storefront, had turned over garbage cans, and become belligerent, prompting the city to arrest him and charge him with battery.
Collier Gwin, the owner of Foster Gwin art gallery, sprayed the homeless woman on January 9. When interviewed after a video of the incident went viral, he said, “I totally understand what an awful thing that is to do, but I also understand what an awful thing it is to leave her on the streets,” adding that repeated attempts had been made to help the woman for weeks before the incident.
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This is horrible. This awful man is spraying a homeless woman down with a hose. You can hear her yell “Help Me!”
Does anyone recognize him? Is he affiliated with Barbarossa Lounge? This is inhumane and inexcusable.
Shout out to @briochessf for posting the video. <a href="https://t.co/3ZKeRP4gar">pic.twitter.com/3ZKeRP4gar</a>
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“I said, ‘You have to move, I cannot clean the street, move down,’” Gwin <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/san-francisco-gallery-owner-sprayed-101855376.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC_xdiBv7Lt4R5YRtb-LHjcxDt6VpVYie269mwGDqDwUycZzbty2mDCrdTOnEQ3dPPNOX0DqlciHg1k3w6KDzfpn6DPFA8fgdOQL4na6BQLWHu1aUItXQf2mI-9OgIk5vztLkL9gKx59jd8JyhjqEJDRfY8DQNa0-GqlikYwkemt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The San Francisco Chronicle. “She starts screaming belligerent things, spitting, yelling at me. At that point, she was so out of control &#8230; I spray her with the hose and say, ‘Move, move. I will help you.’”
“I&#8217;ve been here for 40 years,” he <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/san-francisco-gallery-owner-sprayed-101855376.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC_xdiBv7Lt4R5YRtb-LHjcxDt6VpVYie269mwGDqDwUycZzbty2mDCrdTOnEQ3dPPNOX0DqlciHg1k3w6KDzfpn6DPFA8fgdOQL4na6BQLWHu1aUItXQf2mI-9OgIk5vztLkL9gKx59jd8JyhjqEJDRfY8DQNa0-GqlikYwkemt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> a San Francisco resident. “We have tons of homeless. But they haven&#8217;t been in a situation where they get that violent [within] 10 days of the neighborhood trying to do something. We have been able to get them taken to a shelter, which they leave immediately.”
&#8220;I&#8217;ve listened to her talk to the people and saying, ‘No, this is the way I want to live. My idea of cleanliness is not your idea of cleanliness,’” the resident replied.
“That&#8217;s fine, as long as she knows what she&#8217;s saying,” Gwin responded.
“We called the police; there must be 25 calls on record,” Gwin said later. “It’s two days in a homeless shelter’ it’s two days in jail, and then they drop them back off on the street. This woman is — it’s a very, very sad situation, and she’s very psychotic.”
“I find it hard to apologize when we’ve had no help with this situation,” he concluded.
ABC News Bay Area <a href="https://www.wbay.com/2023/01/12/man-seen-video-spraying-water-hose-homeless-woman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that multiple people in the area of the art gallery described the woman as a “nuisance.”
Following the incident, community and religious leaders, including San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins attended an event to discuss the fallout, and Gwin’s store was vandalized. Gwin offered an <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-gallery-owner-who-sprayed-homeless-woman-in-17723223.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apology</a> for the initial incident, saying, “There’s a breaking point. I have the video to constantly remind me that this is a large cross to bear.”
“Mr. Gwin will face appropriate consequences for his actions,” Jenkins declared.

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San Francisco Art Gallery Owner Arrested After Hosing Down Homeless Woman

Homeless

Many cities that cracked down on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/homelessness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">homelessness</a> have been hit with legal challenges over their new restrictions.
New York City, Dallas, and other cities that tried to aggressively address their homeless problem — and the drug, crime, and public nuisance issues that accompany it — are now <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-cities-get-tough-on-homelessness-legal-battles-follow-11673960273?mod=us_lead_story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defending</a> their policies in court.
In New York City, civil rights groups are attempting to block Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; initiative to hospitalize homeless people who are severely mentally ill and appear to be a danger to themselves.
“If severe mental illness is causing someone to be unsheltered and a danger to themselves, we have a moral obligation to help them get the treatment and care they need,” Adams <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/29/nyc-to-involuntarily-commit-more-mentally-unstable-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> when he announced the plan.
In December, several civil rights groups <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-plan-to-involuntarily-hospitalize-some-mentally-ill-homeless-faces-legal-challenge-11670540243?mod=article_inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> a federal judge to block the policy, claiming it is unconstitutional and violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
New York&#8217;s policy sometimes involves confiscating homeless people&#8217;s belongings as they are removed from public property and taken to a hospital. The city&#8217;s move comes amid concerns that the city&#8217;s homeless crisis is becoming more visible and spiraling out of control.
Also last month, Dallas was <a href="https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-sued-for-banning-panhandlers-from-standing-on-medians-15486363" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> over its October policy restricting people hanging around road medians, where homeless people often panhandle. City officials said the policy is for public safety because people can get hit by passing cars. However, the homeless people and their advocates who sued the city argued the policy violates their First Amendment rights.
Albuquerque was <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news/ap-new-mexico-city-sued-for-hounding-harassing-the-homeless/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> last month by homeless people and the ACLU of New Mexico for removing homeless encampments and arresting and fining people living on the street, allegedly violating their civil rights.
Similarly, Phoenix was <a href="https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/aclu-sues-city-of-phoenix-stop-sweeps-homeless-camp/75-232de857-bdf8-411d-9e13-e8250fe89d70" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> last month by the ACLU of Arizona over sweeps of a huge homeless encampment downtown.
“Rather than confront its housing crisis head-on and invest in sustainable solutions to homelessness, the City is terrorizing the very people it should be helping,” the complaint reads.
In San Francisco, which has one of the nation&#8217;s worst homeless and drug crises, homeless people and their advocates sued the city for fining and arresting homeless people as a way to get them out of public spaces. They also complained that the city throws out homeless people&#8217;s tents and other belongings without enough warning.
Recently, the Ninth Circuit federal appeals court has limited what some West Coast cities with severe homeless crises can do to address the problem if they can&#8217;t offer appropriate shelter.
“It is a serious, serious, problem, probably the biggest crisis we’re facing right now, and I think these decisions are at the heart of what has gone wrong here,” attorney Theane Evangelis, who <a href="https://www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/evangelis-theane/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> an Oregon city&#8217;s homeless policy in the 9th Circuit, told <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-cities-get-tough-on-homelessness-legal-battles-follow-11673960273" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
“They’ve caused paralysis at a time when we need action,” Evangelis said.
A federal judge has temporarily banned San Francisco from taking those actions to combat the homeless issue, citing Ninth Circuit rulings.
Back in 2021, Austin was sued for not doing enough to address the city&#8217;s homeless problem. A group of Austin business owners and others <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/save-austin-now-business-owners-say-austin-is-failing-to-enforce-camping-ban-in-new-lawsuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> the city for not enforcing its public property camping ban.

Demonstration Held At NYC’s City Hall Against Mayor Adams’ Plan For Mentally Ill Homeless

Cities That Cracked Down On Homelessness Get Hit With Legal Challenges

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This week, the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee released a report calling on the city to pay every black resident $5 million and absolve all of their outstanding personal debt. Their rationale was broad – as it had to be, since California was founded as a free state: “While neither San Francisco, nor California, formally adopted the institution of chattel slavery, the tenets of segregation, white supremacy and systematic repression and exclusion of Black people were codified through legal and extralegal actions, social codes, and judicial enforcement.” 
This rationale serves as the same sort of catch-all term “equity” widely beloved by the political Left. It conflates specific harms from deliberate policies – which deserve redress – with vague societal ills that indirectly and unverifiably impact the specific life paths of individuals. Thus, every inequality between blacks and whites, for example, becomes an instance of societal failure, to be cured with social engineering.
This is bad ethics and it is bad social science. It’s bad ethics because the innocent should not be forced to pay people against whom they have not sinned, and because the connection between continued suffering and past discrimination must be measured and clarified rather than merely assumed. It’s bad social science because it ignores the role of individual decision-making in persistent intergenerational inequality, despite the massive intervention of state, local and federal government.
Simply put, the preferred solution of San Francisco’s reparations committee – simply cutting checks – has been a dramatic failure in the United States. In 1965, speaking at Howard University, President Lyndon Baines Johnson explained that he wanted to pursue a program of widespread redistributionism in order to right the racial wrongs of the past: “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘you are free to compete with all the others,&#8217; and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.”
To that end, the federal government has spent in excess of $25 trillion on redistribution programs in the United States. The result has been exceedingly poor: while the income gap between the poorest quintile of Americans and the wealthiest quintile of Americans post-transfer payments and taxes is just 4-to-1, the wealth gap between black and white Americans has skyrocketed from approximately $50,000 pre-1960 to well over $130,000 in 2016. Why? Because it turns out that public policy designed to alleviate inequality also alleviates the consequences of bad decision-making. If we assume that all inequality is inequity, then solving inequality should solve inequity – but if it turns out that a great deal of inequality is the result of bad decision-making, then inequality cannot be solved by simply helicoptering money to those at the bottom end of the economic ladder.
And yet the Left continues to do precisely that. Then they wonder why intergenerational wealth creation has not narrowed the racial gap. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that 70% of black children are born to unwed mothers; nearly 8 out of 100 black males drop out of school; black college students tend to major in subjects that result in worse job prospects (just 12% of black students get a bachelor’s degree in STEM, compared with 33% of Asian students and 18% of white students, for example); one third of the American prison population is black.
It is possible to blame all of this on systemic evil, but any fixes will have to come at the level of individuals making good and responsible decisions. Cutting checks won’t fix this. But such a policy recommendation makes for excellent demagoguery – it allows those who promote foolish and failed ideas to revel in their own supposed altruism, all while helping no one.

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Racial Reparations Solve Nothing

Ben Shapiro

Leftists

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Reparations

Social Issues

A San Francisco reparations committee proposed a plan to city officials last month that would pay longtime black residents of the Northern California metropolitan city $5 million each while granting total debt forgiveness for facing decades of &#8220;systematic repression.&#8221;
The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee submitted the report to the Board of Supervisors just before the New Year, which addresses public policies created to &#8220;subjugate&#8221; black residents in the Bay Area city and includes a list of financial compensation, such as the lump-sum reparations payment of $5 million to each eligible individual.
&#8220;Centuries of harm and destruction of Black lives, Black bodies, and Black communities should be met with centuries of repair,&#8221; Eric McDonnell, committee chair, told <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/sf-reparations-black-17716918.php">The San Francisco Chronicle</a>. &#8220;If you look at San Francisco, it&#8217;s very much a tale of two cities.&#8221;
McDowell serves on the panel with 15 other members established by city officials in 2021.
Such residents who qualify for the payment must meet at least two criteria from a list of requirements, which include applicants to be at least 18 years old at the time the city enacts the committee&#8217;s proposal, have identified as black or African American on public documents for at least ten years, and prove they were born in the city between 1940 and 1996.
Other requirements from the report include residents that have lived in San Francisco for at least 13 years or personally been incarcerated — or the direct descendant of someone imprisoned — during the War on Drugs, which U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon declared in 1971.
The report reads that African-Americans with less than the Area Median Income reflecting $97,000 would also receive supplements for at least 250 years.
&#8220;Racial disparities across all metrics have led to a significant racial wealth gap in the City of San Francisco,&#8221; it argues. &#8220;By elevating income to match AMI, Black people can better afford housing and achieve a better quality of life.&#8221;
The U.S. Census Bureau <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycalifornia">shows</a> black residents total about 5.7% of the city&#8217;s population.
The Chronicle reported that the state reparations task force believes that approximately $569 billion may be due to black Californians for housing discrimination alone between 1933 and 1977.
Tinisch Hollins, the committee&#8217;s vice chair, told the outlet the reparations would &#8220;quantify that harm&#8221; from policies the city passed that &#8220;touch on the legacy of slavery.&#8221;
The report acknowledges San Francisco or the state of California never formally adopted the institution of tenets of segregation, white supremacy, systematic repression, exclusion of Black people through the legal process, or chattel slavery, which allowed the buying, selling, and owning of human beings forever.
Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin told The Chronicle he hopes his colleagues approve the plan.
&#8220;There are so many efforts that result in incredible reports that just end up gathering dust on a shelf,&#8221; Peskin said. &#8220;We cannot let this be one of them.&#8221;
Mayor London Breed, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission will review the final proposal in June.

After New York, San Francisco Bans Cars On Iconic Market Street

San Francisco Reparations Committee Proposes $5 Million Lump-Sum Payment, Debt Forgiveness To Qualified Black Residents

Economy

A frustrated San Francisco art gallery owner has gone viral after video circulated of him turning his garden hose on a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-cannot-clear-out-homeless-encampments-judge-rules/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">homeless woman</a> who was sitting on the sidewalk in front of his establishment.
The <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/11/san-francisco-gallery-owner-soaks-homeless-woman-with-hose/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gallery owner</a>, identified as Collier Gwin, could be seen leaning against a fence and spraying her with a hose while she shouted back at him. The video was recorded by Edson Garcia, co-owner of the nearby Brioche Cafe, who said that she was yelling back at Gwin that she would move.
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&#8220;I turned to the side and saw the guy pouring water to the lady,&#8221; Garcia said, adding that he recognized the woman because he had seen her on the streets there before — and he said that to his knowledge, she had never been a problem.
&#8220;It was cold and raining. She was screaming saying &#8216;ok I&#8217;ll move I&#8217;ll move!&#8217; It&#8217;s not fair to see people doing stuff like that,&#8221; Garcia continued.
According to a <a href="https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-homeless-woman-water-hose-sprayed-by-art-galley-owner-collier-gwin/12685928/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the local San Francisco ABC affiliate, Gwin resorted to using the hose only after multiple attempts to get the woman off the street — and to get her help — had resulted in brief and temporary assistance at best.
&#8220;I totally understand what an awful thing that is to do, but I also understand what an awful thing it is to leave her on the streets,&#8221; he said, noting that police had been called multiple times. Each time, she had been taken to a shelter or jail for a day or two at a time, only to come back to the same streets afterward.
&#8220;We called the police. There must be at least 25 calls to police. It&#8217;s two days in a homeless shelter, it&#8217;s two days in jail, and then they drop them right back on the street,&#8221; Gwin added, claiming that he had only picked up the hose to spray her when she refused to leave and wouldn&#8217;t accept his offer to help her move her belongings to a different part of the street. &#8220;This woman is a very, very sad situation. She&#8217;s very psychotic.&#8221;

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Forecasters are predicting a devastating storm will hit Northern California on Wednesday and continue through Friday, with officials warning residents that &#8220;this is truly a brutal system&#8221; that &#8220;needs to be taken seriously.&#8221;
The National Weather Service predicted that the storm that hit downtown San Francisco on New Year&#8217;s Eve that brought the second-wettest day on record was just a sample of what was coming to the area, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/powerful-storms-flooding-not-over-yet-for-san-francisco-bay-area/">CBS</a> reported.
&#8220;To put it simply, this will likely be one of the most impactful systems on a widespread scale that this meteorologist has seen in a long while,&#8221; the statement from the Bay Area office of the National Weather Service read.
&#8220;The impacts will include widespread flooding, roads washing out, hillside collapsing, trees down (potentially full groves), widespread power outages, immediate disruption to commerce, and the worst of all, likely loss of human life,&#8221; it added.
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Looks like the next <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AtmosphericRiver?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AtmosphericRiver</a> will be an AR-3, according to <a href="https://twitter.com/CW3E_Scripps?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CW3E_Scripps</a> data. That means we can expect a mix of beneficial rain, along with the hazards of flooding and wind damage. <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NWSBayArea</a> has issued a Flood Watch for the entire Bay Area, from 4am Wed &#8211; 4pm Thu. <a href="https://t.co/vhoNvrmKxj">pic.twitter.com/vhoNvrmKxj</a>
&mdash; Paul Heggen (@PaulKPIX) <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulKPIX/status/1610048056329920512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A flood watch has been issued for the area from Wednesday at 4 am local time to Thursday at 4 pm, the outlet noted.
The NWS projects &#8220;rapid rises on creeks and streams, downed trees, multiple mudslides across the region, power outages,&#8221; adding, &#8220;One area of concern is the Russian River near Guerneville.&#8221;
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Here we go again, but this time with lots of wind.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PineappleExpress?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PineappleExpress</a> heading our way for midweek. Checkout the plume of moisture peeling off the tropics, just NW of the Hawaiian Islands.
Monday/Tuesday are prep days.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cawx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cawx</a> <a href="https://t.co/F7Q6qbF5K8">pic.twitter.com/F7Q6qbF5K8</a>
&mdash; NWS Bay Area 🌉 (@NWSBayArea) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1609986117780246530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The NWS also warned that high winds are expected for most of the northern part of the state, specifically from Mendocino County to Monterey County.
&#8220;Major wind and rain impacts are EXPECTED tomorrow into Thursday,&#8221; one post read from NWS Bay Area. &#8220;Prepare now for flooding, downed trees, and power outages. NEVER drive through flooded roadways! Remember turn around, don&#8217;t drown. Stay safe everyone!&#8221;
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Major wind and rain impacts are EXPECTED tomorrow into Thursday. Prepare now for flooding, downed trees, and power outages. NEVER drive through flooded roadways! Remember turn around, don&#39;t drown. Stay safe everyone! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cawx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cawx</a> <a href="https://t.co/8agOIHccoJ">pic.twitter.com/8agOIHccoJ</a>
&mdash; NWS Bay Area 🌉 (@NWSBayArea) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1610415507999707136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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NWS&#8217;s post included a series of graphics showing severe amounts of rainfall up and down the northern CA coastline, with warnings of landslides and rockslides.
Severe snowfall is also expected in the central part of the state, with the <a href="https://www.weather.gov/hnx/">NWS in Hanford</a> issuing a winter weather storm warning for the Sierra Nevadas from Wednesday until 4 am Friday.
The weather service predicts travel in this area will be &#8220;extremely difficult or nearly impossible,&#8221; with snowfall of 1 to 3 feet to fall between 6,000-7,000 feet and snowfall of 6-12 inches from 5,000-6,000 feet.

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The suspected attacker of Paul Pelosi reportedly pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the state charges charges brought against him in a court appearance, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/paul-pelosi-attack-suspect-david-depape-pleads-not-guilty-charges?intcmp=tw_fnc">according</a> to Fox News.
David DePape, 42, allegedly assaulted Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), with a hammer when police arrived at the San Francisco home in October. The apparent intruder was reportedly demanding to know the speaker&#8217;s whereabouts.
Prosecutors charged DePape with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and elder abuse, Fox News reported. However, the accused pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges, including allegations he planned to kidnap Nancy Pelosi.
Adam Lipson, DePape&#8217;s public defender, said that the suspected attacker &#8220;is going to be fighting this case in court, not the hallway,&#8221; <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-paul-pelosi-attack-pleads-guilty-state-charges/story?id=95888953">ABC News</a> reported.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said in a statement following Wednesday&#8217;s arraignment that &#8220;Mr. DePape will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and held accountable for his heinous crimes,&#8221; according to the outlet.
The speaker&#8217;s husband suffered a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm. He is expected to make a full recovery, according to a spokesperson.
Two weeks ago, body camera footage played in court allegedly showed DePape striking Paul Pelosi.
San Francisco Police Sgt. Carla Hurley — who interviewed DePape after he was detained — reported that the suspect said that there was an &#8220;evil in Washington&#8221; and had a much longer hit list of people he wanted to confront after authorities caught him in the act, Fox News reported.
The list included the House Speaker, Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), actor Tom Hanks, and Hunter Biden, the embattled son of President Joe Biden.
Fox News reported DePape, who also waived his right to a trial within 60 days, is set to appear in court again on Feb. 23.

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Entrepreneur and multibillionaire Mark Cuban slammed the Left-wing policies of San Francisco during an interview on Bill Maher&#8217;s &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast over the weekend.
Cuban and Maher spoke on Sunday&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6veLM-T6ZE&amp;ab_channel=ClubRandomPodcast">episode</a> of the show about the current state of affairs in the country.
“I could not live here as a permanent resident just ’cause of the taxes and the regulation,&#8221; Cuban said. &#8220;Yeah. I love coming out here, but I’m a visitor.&#8221;
&#8220;And those are the reasons – taxes and regulations?” Maher asked.
“That’s a big part of it, yeah,&#8221; Cuban responded. &#8220;Just because, I mean, look what’s happened in San Francisco, I mean, an entire industry is getting pushed out. You know, the whole technology industry went from, ‘Well, it’s ok. This is growth, this is, you know, the new thing.’ And now, you know, it’s just about people s***ting on the street.&#8221;
“I was gonna say, the cleaning-up-the-s**t-off-the street-industry is doing very well,” Maher joked. &#8220;I don’t want to add to the s**t on the street and take a dump on San Francisco. I love San Francisco. I think we all love San Francisco.&#8221;
“I’m not, I’ve never been a big San Francisco fan, at all,” Cuban responded.
Maher noted that he knew that the city was &#8220;a little cliquey.&#8221;
“Pretentious as f***,” Cuban responded. “Right? Being in the tech industry everybody is the smartest motherf***er in the world if you live in Silicon Valley.”
Cuban continued, “I mean, the attitudes, I mean, it’s just like, ‘We’re tech bros. We’re tech bros. Of course, we’re smarter. You know, we went to Harvard, we went to MIT, we’re in tech. You just can’t hang. You don’t know what the f***k is going on.’ I do all I can not to let any of my investments work outta Silicon Valley.&#8221;
“There’s a lot of capital there so that people follow the money. I get that. Right. But the pretentiousness and the attitude and the expectations and the arrogance, like it’s just a business,&#8221; Cuban added. &#8220;And you can be good anywhere in the world. Hopefully, you’ll come here to this country and, you know, make the choice like immigrants used to and come here and start companies. But I’d rather start a business in Dallas all day, every day.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-police-secretly-deployed-at-stores-to-catch-shoplifters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a> cannot clear out its ubiquitous homeless encampments because it hasn’t offered shelter to their inhabitants, a federal judge ruled Friday.
The city had been conducting sweeps in which it took the tents and belongings of homeless people living in the tent cities until Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu in the U.S. District Court in Oakland granted an emergency order barring the action, the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-could-be-banned-temporarily-from-clearing-17672846.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle reported</a>. The order was granted after a group of homeless plaintiffs sued to stop the city.
“Mayors cannot run cities this way,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-hammers-san-francisco-democrat-mayor-london-breed-over-new-investigation-into-twitter-offices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mayor London Breed said</a>. “We already have too few tools to deal with the mental illness we see on our streets. Now we are being told not to use another tool that helps bring people indoors and keeps our neighborhoods safe and clean for our residents.”
Ryu said the city’s own laws dictate that it offer shelter to homeless people before clearing away their encampments, and San Francisco would need to add thousands of additional beds to meet the requirement. Ryu cited evidence that the city regularly failed to offer shelter before clearing the encampments and improperly seized or threw out inhabitant’s belongings, including cellphones, medication, identification, and even prosthetic limbs.
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&quot;the stench from the bench is making me clench!&quot; IT&#39;S THE ACLU vermin who block cities from clearing homeless cesspools from our streets. ARREST THE ACLU lawyers as domestic terrorists. <a href="https://t.co/Aqf46aN9RY">https://t.co/Aqf46aN9RY</a>
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Breed said many of the homeless people whose encampments were targeted for cleanup people refused help from the city. She said some even have homes, but use the camps for “drug dealing, human trafficking, and other illegal activities.”
City attorneys said homeless people get fair notice the camps are being cleared, receive offers of help, and are only forced to leave if they reject alternative housing. San Francisco has an estimated 7,800 homeless residents and city officials acknowledge it does not have nearly enough spaces in shelters to accommodate all of them.
There were just 34 beds available as of Friday Zal Shroff, senior attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Coalition on Homelessness, one of a handful of legal organizations that represented seven plaintiffs, presented evidence that homeless people had their personal items seized and were and were left with nowhere to go.
“The policy isn’t the problem,” Ryu said. “The question is how is that policy being executed.”
Several Democrat-run cities that have been overrun with homeless encampments have sought to clear them out amid rises in crime and complaints from businesses and residents. But judges have increasingly said the cities cannot push out homeless people without providing them with alternative housing.
A federal judge issued an emergency injunction on December 15 preventing the city of Phoenix from clearing out a large homeless encampment downtown. The ACLU of New Mexico sued the city of Albuquerque last week, charging that officials destroyed homeless encampments without due process.

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The driver of a 2021 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tesla" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tesla</a> told police that his vehicle’s self-driving software malfunctioned, causing an eight-car pileup on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a>’s Bay Bridge last month.
The crash that occurred on Thanksgiving Day resulted in two juveniles being transported to the hospital for minor injuries. According to a police report obtained by <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2022-12-21/tesla-driver-in-multi-car-crash-told-police-self-driving-software-malfunctioned#:~:text=Dec.%2021%2C%202022%2C%20at%207%3A45%20p.m.&amp;text=WASHINGTON%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20The%20driver,police%20report%20made%20public%20Wednesday." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> and made public Wednesday, the Tesla Model S made an unsafe lane change and then began slowing to a stop. The vehicle behind the Tesla then rammed into the back of the braking Tesla, resulting in a chain of crashes on the bridge. 
After the pileup, the Tesla driver told police that he had put his car in Full-Self Driving (FSD) mode, but authorities could not determine if the FSD software had malfunctioned, Reuters reported. Police also noted that if the FSD mode had malfunctioned as the driver claimed, the driver should have manually taken control of the vehicle. 
Tesla offers customers FSD mode as a $15,000 add-on to the electric vehicle. FSD software allows the vehicle to change lanes and park on its own while its autopilot mode gives the Tesla the ability to steer, accelerate, and brake autonomously within its lane, but the company warns that these features do not make the vehicle fully autonomous. 
“Autopilot, Enhanced Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Capability are intended for use with a fully attentive driver, who has their hands on the wheel and is prepared to take over at any moment,” Tesla <a href="https://www.tesla.com/en_eu/support/autopilot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>. “While these features are designed to become more capable over time, the currently enabled features do not make the vehicle autonomous.”
Reports of the alleged Tesla malfunction come as the car maker&#8217;s stock has seen its largest decline in Tesla&#8217;s history after reaching an all-time high in 2021. The EV company stock was down 8% Thursday, bringing its year-to-date losses to 64%, Yahoo Finance <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teslas-largest-ever-decline-has-short-sellers-sitting-on-15-billion-in-profits-morning-brief-110021261.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
Financial analysts expressed concern about Tesla after company CEO Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion in late October. Dan Ives of Wedbush <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-promised-tesla-benefit-210427354.html">wrote</a> that Musk’s purchase of Twitter scared investors because Musk was using “Tesla as his own ATM machine to keep funding” Twitter. 
Gene Munster of Loup Ventures echoed Ives’ concern about Musk’s divided attention between Tesla and Twitter. 
&#8220;Elon is Tesla&#8217;s brand. He needs to pull it together. He&#8217;s made these mistakes about running off on the mouth many times, and he needs to tighten up his message because he&#8217;s going to cause some long-term damage if he doesn&#8217;t right the ship,&#8221; Munster <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-tesla-stock-price-fall-gene-munster-2022-12?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNBC last week. 
Musk recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-elon-musk-stepping-down-as-the-ceo-of-twitter-reveals-what-hell-do-next" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polled</a> Twitter users on if they want him to step down as the social media platform’s CEO. The poll received over 17 million votes with 57.5% of users saying Musk should step down. After the poll, Musk confirmed he would abide by its results. 
“I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!” he tweeted. “After that, I will just run the software &amp; servers teams.”

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