Mission Mission

Usually you don’t think twice about seeing shoes dangling from a telephone wire — but snowboarding boots? What drugs are for sale on this corner?

Don’t follow leaders.

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The Examiner reports:

A 21-year-old woman was badly wounded after being shot in the back outside a house party in the Mission district early Sunday morning, San Francisco police said.

The shooting occurred at about 2:30 a.m. at 25th and Folsom streets, police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said.

The victim had been standing on the sidewalk outside the party when she was hit by gunfire, according to Esparza. He said people attending the party drove her to San Francisco General Hospital, where her injuries were described as life threatening.

No arrests were made, and the shooting is not believed to be gang related at this time, Esparza said.

Read on.

[via SFist]

Chris Kalani reports:

We were upstairs at Laszlo last night when we saw a motorcycle skid out of control and crash into the back of a parked truck. It wasn’t until a crowd of people gathered in the street that we realized someone had been hit.

Read on for more photos and the rest of the story.

KTVU reports:

The shooting was reported at about 2 p.m. Tuesday in an alley near the park, which is bounded by 18th and 20th streets and Dolores and Church streets.

The 22-year-old victim met a female who drove him to the alley, where two male suspects appeared and demanded money, according to police.

The man handed over cash to the suspects, who began to run away. The victim chased after them, at which point one of the suspects turned and fired at him, striking him once, police said.

The guy is alive. As of this morning, the suspects were still at large. Good thing the cops were busy staging an anti-riot operation. Read on. And watch your backs; this city is losing its mind.

[Photo by reader Brent G.]

Mission Local‘s caption for the above photo is as follows:

Quite measured. I would probably say something more like, “SFPD officer grabs nice handful of civilian tit” or something.

In any case, here’s more of what was going on around the time this photo was taken:

At 7:45, the group reached Market and 7th. A voice came out over a megaphone. It was Corrales. “Move to the sidewalk,” he said. “I am ordering you to obey all traffic laws. Anyone who doesn’t move to the sidewalk will be arrested for jaywalking.”

The protestors ignored him, and kept walking. At Powell St, they began to turn, and walk uphill.

When police realized where the crowd was going, they began to race up Powell, shouting at the stores to lock their doors. Tourists scattered in their wake, screaming and yelling to one another in a multiplicity of languages.

Read on for the full story and the slideshow from whence the above photo came.

Mission Local reports:

When the protestors reached Valencia, they hung a left, and stopped in front of the Mission Police Station. Someone threw a blue smoke bomb. Someone else threw a flare. It landed on a police officer’s foot, and he stamped it out. Someone else threw what appeared to be black paint – it hit the greenish glass doors of the station, and oozed down. The police standing in front of the door ducked but made not other moves. A hammer flew out of the crowd, hit the door and bounced off, with no apparent damange to the door. One police officer leaned down, picked up the hammer and passed it to another police officer, who passed it to another police officer, at which point it disappeard from sight.

Read on for the full story and the slideshow from whence the above photo came.

Mission Local reports:

The police arrived first, at 4:30 p.m. About 20 of them stood at 19th and Dolores. More were at 18th and Dolores and 20th and Dolores. Three or four patrol cars began circling Dolores Park. On hipster hill, the area of the park south of the tennis courts, officers on dirt bikes rode in circles on the grass.

Also there: four television crews. Many, many photographers. At least a dozen journalists, in all. They stood near the entrance of the park, at 19th and Dolores, waiting.

Read on for the full story and the slideshow from whence the above photo came.

SFist reports:

Today we get the disturbing tale of a 19-year-old woman who narrowly escaped getting kidnapped and roofied on Sunday while walking along Mission Street. She was walking near the corner of Mission and 19th at 1 a.m. Sunday when a 25-year-old suspect approached her with a gun. He dragged her to a nearby van, threatening to shoot her, and forced her to get in back.

The suspect then tried to force her to swallow a pill, which she somehow was able to resist or fake, and then he started driving the van toward Potrero Hill.

Read on for the harrowing conclusion. And for goodness’ sake, watch your backs out there, and beware sketchy brown vans and sketchy 25-year-old males holding guns.

[Random photo of a random brown van by J. Long]

Dudes, don’t fall for it. The Taliban is not cool. (They are probably in need of support though.)

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