SF News Suspect In Hate-Crime Vandalism at Pac Heights Church Creates Chaotic Scene In Court A San Francisco man suspected of spray-painting homophobic and antisemitic messages on a church in Pacific Heights in February, appears to be a fairly unstable character who was poorly behaved at a court appearance last week.
SF News Charges Filed In Pride Weekend Shooting and Stabbing Incidents, Trans March Vandalism San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced charges today against six individuals relating to several separate incidents that occurred over Pride Weekend in the city.
SF News 39-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Hate Crimes and Assault After Castro Vandalism Incident An Oakland man with a pro-Charlie Kirk message emblazoned on his vehicle was arrested and has now been charged with multiple felonies, including assault with a deadly weapon.
SF News Sunday Links: Felony Charges Filed Against Man Who Installed Fence at Daly City Beach Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was confirmed dead following Saturday’s US-Israeli military strike; three bystanders were shot in Oakland early Sunday; and real estate investor Luke Brugnara faces felony charges for installing the controversial fence in Daly City.
SF News Petaluma Police Arrest Suspect For Hate Crime Targeting Youth Coach and Former Globetrotter After initially suspending the case due to lack of evidence, Petaluma police arrested a suspect who was allegedly caught on video surveillance tracing racial slurs and swastikas onto the dusty windows of local youth mentor and former Harlem Globetrotter William Bullard’s SUV.
SF News Hate on the Rise: Ex-Globetrotter’s SUV Defaced in Petaluma, San Jose Teens Form Human Swastika As the federal government continues to attack DEI efforts — emboldening racists to come out of the woodwork, two high-profile hate incidents came to light this week. In Petaluma, a youth mentor and ex-Globetrotter was targeted, and in San Jose, high school students formed a human swastika.
SF News Teen Accused of Defacing Pink Triangle Gets Felony Vandalism Charge, But No Hate Crime Charges The 19-year-old who allegedly spray-painted on the Twin Peaks Pink Triangle last Pride Month has been charged with a felony, though not a hate crime, as his attorney says the kid didn’t even know what the Pink Triangle meant.
SF News Guy Seen Climbing Atop Waymo and Vandalizing It Charged In Four Separate Waymo Vandalism Incidents One well known unhinged gentleman in the SoMa neighborhood with a long rap sheet has really had it out for the robocars in the last six weeks, and he's now been charged in four separate incidents of vandalism.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In the Span of Two Days, Two SF Restaurants Have Windows Smashed In During Dinner Service In what seems like an unpleasant coincidence unless the suspect was the same in both incidents, two busy San Francisco restaurants saw their front windows shattered by unhinged individuals in the middle of dinner service last week.
SF News Sunset Dunes Park Vandalized Again, Hammocks Stolen For the fourth or fifth time in recent weeks, the new public park on the former Great Highway was hit by vandals over the weekend.
SF News 19-Year-Old Suspect Arrested After Alleged Vandalism of Pink Triangle In SF The giant Pride Month Pink Triangle on Twin Pinks was reportedly defaced Tuesday afternoon, and police were called and quickly arrested a suspect who was in the act.
SF News Once Again, Vandals Do Damage to Art Installations at Sunset Dunes, the Park at the Former Great Highway In at least the third incident of vandalism in the last few months at the former Great Highway, now the park Sunset Dunes, a public piano at the park was damaged “beyond repair” over the weekend, after another installation had just been vandalized.
SF News Tesla Cybertruck Vandal, Seen on Video, Sought In Novato An individual who creeped into a Tesla Cybertruck owner's driveway in Novato over the weekend and vandalized the vehicle is being sought by Novato police.
SF News Great Highway Walls Vandalized Yet Again, With Angry Graffiti From Apparent Park-Haters Saturday night was the second time since the Great Highway closed that its concrete walls were defaced with graffiti, this time with misspelled messages of “gentriffy” and “Your bringing trouble.”
SF News Mural at Great Highway Park Defaced Just After Highway Was Closed Permanently The Sunset District did not exactly roll out the welcome mat for their new car-free Great Highway, as on the very first night of its new car-free status, a mural in the park was vandalized in what may have been an act of protest.
SF News Notorious Tenderloin Twitter Provocateur Accused of Tire-Slashing, Harassment, Making Online Threats The Twitter personality "jj smith" is suddenly hiding his tweets after making a series of pretty violent threats, and there is at least one tire-slashing incident in which he was allegedly somehow involved.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Elvira Donates Tesla With 'Elon Sux' Painted On It To NPR Trump issued an executive order calling for swathes of US national forests to be used for timber; Elvira donated her Tesla to NPR while wearing a "Make America Goth Again" hat; and a San Mateo substitute teacher was arrested for possession of child pornography.
SF News Man Suspected Of Causing $500K In Damage to New BART Station Entries Arrested In San Francisco BART police say they have arrested a man they believe is responsible for smashing glass panels on the canopy entries of three downtown San Francisco BART stations earlier this month.
Bay Area Sports A’s Fans Tried to Steal Seats From Coliseum Tuesday Night, But Did Not Successfully Steal the Seats In the third-to-last ever Oakland A’s home game Tuesday night, a couple fans ripped their seats out of the Oakland Coliseum. But they reportedly did not manage to leave the Coliseum with those seats, and could face charges.
SF News Alleged ‘Waymo Slasher’ Charged With Slashing the Tires on 17 Waymo Self-Driving Cars A 36-year-old man who’s apparently not fond of self-driving robotaxis allegedly went on a tire-stabbing spree against them, and stands accused of slashing Waymo tires 17 times in a three-day span, though the cars’ cameras caught him on video.
SF News Lower Nob Hill Mosque Vandalized, Congregants Harassed At Least Twice During Ramadan An individual was caught on security camera smashing the windows of the Masjid Al-Tawheed mosque on Sutter Street last week, and reportedly returned again Tuesday to harass the assembled congregants.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach Mainstay Sam’s Burgers Gets Front Window Smashed By Rando Who Was Harassing Employees An irate and probably unstable person caused a ruckus at the popular North Beach burger spot Sam’s Burgers, smashing the shop’s front window by throwing a chair through it. Undaunted, Sam’s says it will reopen Tuesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vandal Suspect Arrested for Doing $10,000 Damage to Restaurant That Hadn’t Opened Yet A widely TikTok-mocked office-to-condo conversion has actually sold; now even teenagers are getting jilted out of payments by the SFUSD payroll fiasco; and SFPD has arrested a suspect in this week’s vandalism of planters outside the restuarant Alora that's opening Wednesday.
SF News In Escalation of AV Backlash, Black-Clad Person Seen Vandalizing Cruise Vehicle With Hammer As has become clear, autonomous vehicles are not going to be allowed to proliferate on San Francisco's streets without some kind of protest. And the latest act of protest took things to a newly aggressive level.
SF News Deplorable Vandals Damage Historic Lotta’s Fountain Landmark in Downtown SF There’s a lotta history to the 147-year-old Lotta’s Fountain at Market and Geary Streets, though vandals have torn off one of its cast iron florets, but the SF Arts Commission is promising a quick fix.
