January 14, 2008
Help the Budding Memorial at Capp/24th Street Bloom
Here we see the start of a memorial at Capp and 24th Streets, right on the spot where a 19-year-old male lost his life in a double shooting last night. Are those bullet holes? Yikes.
Although, according to one SFist tipster, "someone took away the candle" moments ago. Which: why? We think the memorial grow far and wide. Hey, wouldn't this be a smashing way for you to silently voice your concern about the escalating violence in the San Francisco? (You know, better than, say, making yet another vile racist remark in our comment section?) If you're walking along 24th Street today, throw down some lilies, a $.99 candle or four, handmade posters, or whatever. We're talking Princess Diana memorial-sized public outcry here, folks--that's the only way this will work. Because the larger it gets, the more the likely the media will lap it up, and the less likely you are to be killed while heading to BART. A win-win, really.
Image credit goes to Flickr's alexpolotsky
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boy, it's a good thing we all believe in the right to bare arms. the framers would be so proud of us and our innate ability to quickly and easily kill each other at just the touch of a trigger.
Awww... when I saw it said budding memorial, I thought it meant something else.
Unfortunately it may turn out to be the same thing.
I think if you want to pile up a bunch of crap somewhere to honor a dead person, you should do so at your privately owned grave site and not the publicly owned sidewalk. it is nothing more than a bunch of garbage that won't be cleaned up by the people who put it there. At what point does it become trash? When the flowers wilt to a certain degree, when the Virgin de Guadalupe stickers fall off the glass candle holders?
At what point does all this violence become considered a crisis? When I see the local and national response given to an oil spill and compare it to the daily dose of violence, you have to wonder what's it going to take? Something has to be done.
The good people are dying.
Update: Looks like a case of mistaken identity... seems as if he was confused for a Norteño gang member, read about it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/15/BAHNUF5KE.DTL