dolores park hill bomb

The Dolores Park hill bomb, where skateboarders plunge at full speed down Dolores Street, has been held on and off for years, planned by word-of-mouth and social media. This reporter sees teenagers wearing crop tops, their stomachs exposed. The 17-year-old, who had been watching the arrests for an hour, says he is worried for his brother, and hopes the police will call his family to pick him up from the station. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) - At least one person has died in a recent skateboarding event near San Francisco's Dolores Park. Friends of those arrested skate and bike around, waiting for news; one skates to a taqueria nearby and returns with a burrito. She throws her shoes at onlookers. That was the time to leave.. One mother arrives with water bottles for other waiting family. Why are kids these days so difficult when following the law? Complete waste of time and resources. At first I thought he was joking, I said, Youve gotta be kidding right? she asked him. Right, that seems unrealistic. At peace demonstrations we were given multiple warnings to disperse. One woman living in a house overlooking the kettled group even threw down a bucket, he says, and the boys started using that. I wonder what the Teamsters will do if they spring into action! Its disturbing to me that people think that children deserve this treatment, no matter what they did. One mother has a baby wrapped up in a blanket; another father has his own baby resting on his shoulder, also covered. Theyre only kids yeah this is why your kids have no respect for anyone including you. None.. When the police showed up in riot gear they turned kids into criminals. Accordingly, she looked at Saturday's arrests as failures of opportunity to use "collaboration, rather than coercion" and less punitive approaches, including provision of helmets, water and ambulances nearby, and connection with experienced skaters to offer advice about risk assessment. At around 10 p.m., a handful of mothers arrive at Guerrero and 17th and ask the officers when they can get their children. Keep in mind that a mass shooting just happened in June: 9 people were shot. There are more people around than those who participated. They live nearby on Dolores, and bemoan the use of city resources on the operation. they should not be able to kettle groups of people for observing. Cowards, these police officers can only pick on children and other easy targets. Moments later, officers responded to reports of gunshots at 18th and Church streets near an occupied Muni light-rail car blocked in by moving crowds, and saw people vandalizing the car and climbing atop it, risking falls or electrocution. And I saw more than a few children tagging public property and thinking it was sooo cool. I guess theyre harder to catch so they just let them do it and attack kids on skateboards instead. Will be interested to see if any of those charged were actually innocent of the charges otherwise, its just cops arresting those engaged in criminal behavior, as we hired them to do. Police Arrest 32, Shut Down Dolores Park Due To Dolores Hill Bomb Tagged: autonomous vehicles rowdiness san francisco Delores Hill Bomb Moveable ORIGINAL REPORTING ON EVERYTHING THAT. When that officer tried tostop the male, a female approached and interfered. Love it and its about time. Sign in with a password below, or sign in using your email. Also not sure how I feel about folks coming to SF to do events and assume that residents should be ok with it. I no longer feel safe in my city. I appreciate you showing up and trying to get a head of the situation, rather than waiting til its an all out free for all. I was going to come pick him up, she says. The police recovered several firearms and unused fireworks from the crowd. The kids have been skating in the neighborhood longer than Ive been alive.. While officers continued ordering crowd members to disperse, a group of 200 people gathered shortly after 8:10 p.m. at 18th and Dolores streets and began removing set-up street barricades. Its excessive use of force. Parents should also be held accountable for their kids behavior! A mother complains my kid was done with the event; I was going to pick him up. My question to her: why did you let him go in the first place if you knew there might be trouble? San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesman Stephen Chun said two light-rail vehicles, a street car, a trolley coach, an inspector truck and a Go4 parking-control interceptor vehicle were spray-painted, with one vehicle's window broken. Is it against the law for my son to use his phone? he angrily asked the officer, as his wife filmed the encounter. 't Malieveld is a large grass field in the centre of The Hague with an area of over ten hectares. I cant, one mother says, chuckling and turning from the scene. Both perceptions are correct and the police lose goodwill from everyone while endangering themselves and the public. The SFPD seems to be understaffed for anything serious, but somehow have the resources to do mass arrests of teens doing harmless things. Cyclist Andrew Sanders, 23, died of his injuries Sunday . Parents control your kids! I watched these kids stop a MUNI J train coming up Church Street, block it, climb all over it, cover it with spray paint and then start smashing the windows. I would respectfully suggest the SFPD learns those 3 Rs rather than those children. He said that unless youre in a skate park, skateboarding is against the law in San Francisco.. Residents are sick of this BS. The parents bang on the walls of the police station for an officer to respond, and an officer sticks his head out, saying he will call someone. So much worse crime to tackle in the city, why dont they let these fun events happen? My baby my baby. But the fewer such events, the betterand any event that can be held in a park instead of the street SHOULD be held in a park. San Francisco Probation Department veterans say immediate drug detox without a wait is a key service thats missing. ago I work at SFGH. And, in 2017, an SFPD officer pushed a skater going downhill into a squad car; the skater sued the city and won $275,000. What I learned is that law enforcement agencies have no desire to actually keep the peace even in circumstances where their intervention is warranted. I dont love the hill bomb or skater culture as a whole. You know what is actually a crime? On Saturday night, dozens of skateboarders took . "This dangerous and unlawful behavior put members of the public and our officers at risk of serious injury or worse," Scott said in part. Amazon said they are working closely with law enforcement. Glad to see SFPD wasting their time on harmless teen fun while drug dealers, burglars and other serious criminals get away with murder. Absolutely pathetic from SFPD. I was assaulted and arrested by deputies while peacefully protesting at City Hall with the Frisco 500. It is possible to get lacerations without being stabbed. Younger generations have had it up to here with this kind of behavior, and all the research suggests they arent moving right as they age. How about the ugly behavior of the skateboarders??? They create these scenarios with their callous cruelty and cultivated ineptitude. Lame! What a sad joke you are, lady. Skateboarding is a crime? Wow how much money was spent for riot police for some kids on a skate board instead of going to people selling and using drugs and crapping on the street. The most disappointing thing to read about was the enabling parents. Dolores Street where the annual Dolores Hill Bomb event takes place. pic.twitter.com/J1GWEGH63O. there were no crimes being committed beyond traffic control. Why arent conservative pro-police folks question the obvious: why is SFPD sending 100 cops to arrest a bunch of presumably non-violent kids while theyre AWOL in arresting real criminals? So when you are being robbed at knife point you want a community rooted unarmed group. A comprehensive rundown Every single day I see open air drug use, I see open air markets of stolen goods. This was an excellent use of city recourse to keep people safe. How can we get involved? No officer goes to the bar. SENIOR EDITOR. Do you even parent? 1 person dies in connection to recent skateboarding event near Dolores Park Please keep your comments short and civil. If police didnt get involved, the rowdy ones left (who obviously cant follow rules and direction) would have turned this into something much more dangerous for themselves and the community. Theyre violating minors rights.. It takes an especially long time to release minors from police custody because of all the effort needed to verify identity of those who say they are parents and guardians. Not allowing an outlet for persons to leave the event, Sitting juveniles in the streets is probably not permitted, food, water bathroom not provided. This is really excessive, her mother says. Others have gone to Mission Station, where busloads of children are slowly being released into the police station a block over from the arrest site. Youre not answering my question.. ++++1 to this comment. He was not arrested but he recounted random acts of police brutality. Phan said she remembered speaking with students often too keen to skate on campuses, but who would also look out for and prevent peers un-ready or underprepared for dangerous slopes or other risky situations. My neighbors and I greatly appreciate the response from the City this year, these kids from out of town to terrorize us. They didnt have a chance to explain, My moms over there., Theres no reason to detain them for that; hes probably terrified, she adds. 11, 2023 12:45pm Published Jul. He sent us a picture of him on the floor., They came to Dolores to watch a thing thats been in the world of skateboards for a long time, Nick Pernia adds. Why are they treating them like criminals? one mother asks, watching the children waiting on the bus. They politely told us not to come all at once, says the mother, sarcastically. Juveniles are loaded into a Muni bus at the scene, to be driven less than two blocks away to Mission Station at 17th and Valencia streets. The train wouldve gone by without impacting the crowd at all because the line curves away from Church into the park there. The San Mateo woman, kidnapped last November in Mexico while walking her dog, was released on Friday by her captors. Typical SF entitlement mentalitythere are worse things going on so I should be able to break whatever laws I feel like. An onlooker begins shouting at a police officer, yelling ACAB and pigs.. Update: San Francisco police arrest dozens in riot after shutting down And again, thanks for the work. The officer was later taken to a hospital for treatment of facial lacerations. Chaos at SF's Dolores Park as police shut down illegal 'hill bomb' - SFGATE The whole force marched up the street of the hill bomb and then after that they corralled people, he said. Have had a hard time recently trying to find the correct response between kids should get space to express themselves and hey that is my property and you are not entitled to destroy it without any consequences. Then they blame the public or bureaucracy or insufficient staffing for why they do the things they do. If some tech company sponsored this the cops would have provided security. A short while later, a man is knocked out cold by another man and drops to the ground. Omg!!! The event, organized by city skateboarders and advertised on social media, often occurs in mid-July and has drawn thousands of participants and spectators in previous years. Waymo Vehicle Mobbed by Skateboarders During Annual San Francisco Hill This isnt a learning experience for these kids, this is just a way to make them hate cops more. Tagging everything in sight, setting off M-80s, destroying a Muni bus with graffiti and trapping the passengers while they did this, etc. But I have to wonder if this was related to the 2017 incident where a cop clotheslined a skater coming off the hill. They LIKE getting into riot mode and revel in the disrespect they engender because it reaffirms their narrative of belonging to a persecuted, holier than thou class. pic.twitter.com/F4MQxFQ8n5. On 4th of July with adults, they just cleared the area and were done in an hour, but with youths, they spent the entire Sat. Weve had enough! Malieveld | DenHaag.com Like the previous article by this author we are hoping there is a follow up on this article with input from local residents rather than the hill bombers and their parents. These are not the kind of people that residents of SF want in our beautiful city and the SFPD did a great job arresting as many of them as they could. Stabbing, fighting at Dolores Park Halloween 'Hill Bomb' We have lots of problems in the city including skateboarders and the graffiti they re covering the city with. And for their own safety, history has made it clear that the hill bomb has to be shut down. The skaters set off fireworks and vandalized Muni buses and trams, according to police. On July 4, shortly after midnight, dozens of officers charged a large crowd that had been setting off fireworks and hosting sideshows earlier in the evening. Police said that officers had been in the area in preparation for the annual hill bomb and witnessed fireworks being set off at 6:15 p.m. At 7:10 p.m., SFPD said, a police sergeant was spit on by a 16-year-old boy and attempted to arrest him, at which point a 15-year-old girl interfered. The city can clear 4th of july crowds in the mission and break up a hill bomb but then do nothing about open drug markets in the TL and Soma??? Theyre not shooting drugs, assaulting anyone. THANK YOU, CAPTAIN HARVEY! Isnt it unsurprising that so many kids will grow up to have contempt for the police (who are having enough trouble recruiting)? The bulk of 117 arrested were cited with the same three misdemeanors: inciting a riot, failure to disperse after an unlawful assembly, and conspiracy. An official event would have a schedule. So long as the people of this city are as reactionary and right-wing ideologues that they are, no one would be held accountable and no improvement would take place. By 9:40 p.m., police have begun processing the skaters and spectators for arrest. Were gonna start a business for you called 98, his mother jokes. My shoulder blade was on fire.. Question, did you look into how much will it cost to repair the publicly funded muni light rail vehicle that was vandalized and if the police officer severely injured? Your contribution is essential to our efforts. Punishment based solutions are usually pushed by people who feel moral superiority and do not have any interest in transforming situations but merely controlling behaviors. As the night wears on, more parents arrive at the corner of 17th and Guerrero to await their childrens arrest and processing. Get sponsors, engage the skating and Mission community. regardless of their calls of illegal assembly. SFPD's Ofc. We see so many cases of head traumas from skateboarders, and they are DEVESTATING. Good. Seems a little irresponsible. Of all of the public safety concerns facing San Francisco, rioting against revelers on 4 Jul and skaters today is all the SFPDs can be bothered to address, probably because they find this enjoyable. Can he use his phone? Maybe some of the very concerned parents of arrested children can help with that project. Parents call their children via FaceTime and cell phones as their kids sit on the ground, waiting to be loaded onto buses. As of 8:45 p.m., SFPD had kettled dozens of skaters and young people, keeping them trapped between rows of armed police officers. She says it is ridiculous that the police arent immediately releasing minors to their family. The officers tell the group that their children will be held at Mission Station and that they can retrieve them in an hour. Families intermittently argue with police on the scene, saying there is no reason for them to arrest their children and siblings. I was one of the first people of our 33 released at 4:30am. Girls hyperventilated, she said, and several peed their pants while being kept zip-tied on the bus, awaiting transfer to Mission Station. Son nios, son nios. Theyre kids, theyre kids. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. And he was told by an officer that the reason for their arrest was unpermitted skating. Will letting developers build less affordable housing jumpstart thousands of stalled units? SF to dismiss almost all cases against Dolores hill bomb teens Teens trapped, injured by SFPD in hill bomb arrests, say parents Does anyone have a copy of the video where the skateboarder gets closelined? Follow the 3Rs Rights, Responsibilty, and Respect and well all be better off. I have been a resident of SF for 31 years and I have never seen the City so dysfunctional in two respects: An inept government that is marred by one scandal after another and a public that is willing to give a free pass to this incompetent government no matter what.
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