Seniors at San Jose's Independence High aren't talking about who super-glued 180 classroom and library door locks on the first day of finals, even after the principal canceled the senior picnic and the school offered a $500 reward for information. A freshman said, "I thought it was mean. If I get an F on my final, I'm going to blame the seniors."
Entrepreneurial! Leah Garchik tells a tale of a guy walking around in a DPT uniform and claiming to be able to give businesses free parking outside your apartment for $150-$1600, by painting your curb green. DPW reminds us all that they don't do door-to-door permitting and that if you actually need a green zone painted by your store, there's a complicated application procedure you have to follow. Of course, this leads us to the next logical conclusion, which is that you should just get some green paint and paint your curb yourself.
And the SFPD's under attack again, this time for firing on an unarmed man in an apartment near Lake Merced who was pointing an eyeglass case at them. Oops.
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The police are under attack not just for executing an unarmed man who happened to be a guest of the legal tenant (not "squatter") at Villas Parkmerced, but also for officially broadcasting outrageous lies about the event and having the San Francisco Chronicle print them. It was 16 hours later before anybody bothered to say, well, actually Asa Sullivan wasn't shooting at us through the roof, partly because he wasn't armed. But he was branding a glasses case!
I wrote a wrote a rude rebuke to the Chronicle reporter, Jason Van Derboken, asking him when he was going to stop reprinting the police versions verbatim and do some actual reporting. His reply to me was instructive:
"Well, since the only version of events (unless we have a medium) will have to come from the police, and they issued two statements, and we covered both, im not sure what you would have us do."
How about interviewing the tenant and finding out what REALLY happened? Nah, we'll just reprint the fumblings of Fong and her crew.
Whoops! That should be "brandishing" a glasses case, not "branding," and the Chronicle reporter is "Jaxon," not "Jason." Do you think I could get a job in the Chronicle fact-checking department?
It is funny that they couldn't interview the other guy that does know what happened since he was there just a few feet away the whole time!!
Their family is trying to raise money for the funeral. If you can help in any kind of way, even if it's just $1, any amount would help out a lot, and would be very appreciated.
They have set up an account at Wellsfargo:
Asa B. Sullivan Memorial Fund or Kahlil Sullivan
Account: 5178349287
If you have a Wellsfargo account and do the transfer online, use the name Kahlil Sullivan since he opened the account for his brother, and on the transfer description write "donation for memorial fund"
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!!!!!
Well, it seems they must be reading SFist over at SFGate, because there is finally an interview with the roommate over there. The whole thing reads as a sad, terrible story, with the police panicking and blowing it badly, killing an innocent guy who was doing work on the apartment for the tenants trying to get their security deposit back from the fancy "Villas Parkmerced." And we still don't know quite why and how it all happened, since the official police spokesman tends to lie out of sheer habit a la Scott McLellan.