SF federal judge likely to advance Dolores Park hill bomb cases
The cases, filed by four teenagers alleging civil rights violations, stemmed from the mass arrest at the July 8, 2023, hill bomb.
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The cases, filed by four teenagers alleging civil rights violations, stemmed from the mass arrest at the July 8, 2023, hill bomb.
The city will ask a judge to toss out claims that SFPD violated civil rights during the July 2023 Dolores Park hill bomb mass arrest.
Protests over the Gaza war that snarled San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and Interstate 880 in Oakland led to dozens of arrests and a finger-wagging from Gov. Gavin Newsom.
"There have been eras when society is more tolerant of these forms of expression, and times where tolerance seems to wane a bit, and we may be in one of those periods now," said SJSU political science Professor Emeritus Larry Gerston.
The protests unfolded amid a larger debate over crime and punishment in the Golden State. A series of laws and initiatives over the last 15 years were aimed at depopulating overcrowded California prisons.