Blighted San Francisco Diagnoses Its ‘Perilous Trifecta’ and Bungles the Cure
San Francisco is coming undone. In recent years, the city has manifested a series of visible and persistent inequalities, with a spoils-to-the-victor world for its technological elite, and a chaotic, brutalized world for its dispossessed. In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on the street corners, desperate addicts are crumpled across the sidewalks, and first responders dart through the chaos to revive overdose victims.
The city has become a web of contradictions. There are thousands of new millionaires, and, by the latest estimates, 18,000 people in and out of homelessness. The headquarters of Uber, Twitter, and Square are blocks away from the open-air drug markets of the Tenderloin, Mid-Market, and SoMa. Wealthy families attending an art opening at the Civic Center have to cross through the tent encampments that line the sidewalks.
April 29, 2021
“President Joe Biden changed course forever Saturday, joining historians and many other nations in declaring that the Ottoman Empire’s slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenian civilians was genocide,” writes staffer Roxanne Makasdjian. (photo by Justin Kaladjian)
BY ROXANNE MAKASDJIAN
It’s 1968 and near the end of April. A feeling of sheer joy comes over me as I do barrel rolls down the hill where the new Armenian Genocide monument was being consecrated in Montebello, Calif. I’m 6 years old, oblivious to the meaning of the day, feeling like I had hit the jackpot a smooth, grassy hill of just the right incline to allow for an exciting speed without fear of injury.
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Collective relief, but more work to be done: Bay Area reacts to Derek Chauvin verdict
By KTVU Staff
Derek Chauvin verdict: ex-cop taken away in handcuffs
Watch footage of the moment the guilty verdict was read in the Derek Chauvin trial, followed moments later by the ex-Minneapolis police officer being taken away in handcuffs for the murder of George Floyd.
OAKLAND, Calif. - Elected officials, activists and others from the Bay Area and California largely praised the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. For many, it was a sigh of collective relief. At the same time, others took the opportunity to point out how much work has to be done when it comes to police reform and racial injustice.
LGBTQ organizations and San Francisco officials reacted Tuesday to the trio of guilty verdicts in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd.
A Minneapolis jury on April 20 convicted Chauvin of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Floyd last May 25.
Equality California, the state s LGBTQ rights organization, released a statement from Executive Director Rick Chavez Zbur and Executive Director-designate Tony Hoang. George Floyd s life matters. Breonna Taylor s life matters. Jaida Peterson s life matters. Emmett Till s life matters. Black lives matter, the men stated. Derek Chauvin s knee was on George Floyd s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, they added. He stole George Floyd s life and his future from him, from his family, from his community and from the world.