SF News SFUSD Students Staged Walkout Friday Afternoon Over Multiple Gun Incidents, District’s Safety Response There were three reported gun incidents in one day last month at SFUSD high schools, and today, some students staged a walkout over what they see as the district’s slow-footed response.
SF News Eight-Year-Old Boy Struck In Freeway Shooting Crossfire In Oakland Is Paralyzed A young boy who became the second child victim of a freeway shooting in the East Bay in three months is now permanently paralyzed from the neck down, and his family is hoping to raise funds for his homecoming and ongoing care.
SF News 32-Year-Old Man Convicted In SoMa Mugging In Which Victim Was Shot In Leg A jury in San Francisco this week convicted a 32-year-old man in a brazen attempted armed robbery on a SoMa street last summer in which the victim was shot in the leg.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Suddenly Proposes a 28th Amendment to Curb Gun Violence In an out-of-the-blue move that indicates he’s still keen to build that national profile, Governor Gavin Newsom started a media blitz Thursday morning promoting a 28th Amendment campaign to promote popular but stalled gun control measures.
SF News $10K Reward Offered to Anyone With Information in Highway Shooting That Killed Fremont Toddler Oakland's Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, along with help from SF Police Officers Association and Burma Superstar restaurant, is offering a $10K reward for anyone with information that could lead to the arrest (or arrests) in the fatal shooting of 23-month-old Jasper Wu on I-880 last weekend.
SF News SF Will Begin Paying People to Not Shoot Other People The program will be called the Dream Keeper Fellowship, though likely to be dubbed “Cash for Criminals” in the media, and will pay select people $300 a month to avoid gun incidents.
SF News San Jose Mayor at White House Today to Discuss Curbing Gun Violence San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and multiple other mayors from around the country are meeting President Biden at the White House for what's been described as a high-level strategy session on addressing the rise in gun violence nationwide.
SF News Gun Buyback Event in SoMa Held to Help Mitigate Future Gun Violence An anonymous gun buyback event Saturday that was hosted by United Playaz — in partnership with SFPD and the Mayor’s Office of Violence Prevention Services — had received over 200 surrendered firearms by noon.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Says Pandemic to Blame For Major Uptick In Homicides Oakland is on track to record more homicides this year than in any of the last five years, and the reason for the steep jump in gun violence is directly correlated to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the city's interim police chief.
SF News Trump and Bush Appointees On Ninth Circuit Rule That CA Ban On High-Capacity Magazines Is Unconstitutional In a victory for the gun lobby, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has invalidated California's law limiting gun magazines to 10 bullets, saying that the law violates the Second Amendment.
SF News Sunnyvale Police Thwart Alleged Mass Shooting Attempt by Disgruntled UPS Employee The accused would-be killer live streamed his police chase on Facebook, whilst in possession of nine guns and 20,000 rounds of ammunition.
SF News Today's Bay Area-Wide Gun Buy-Backs Aim To Curb Gun Violence By Getting Firearms Off The Streets In an attempt to rid SF streets of firearms, the San Francisco Police Department and nonprofit United Playaz are hosting a gun buy-back event today in the city, with other like-minded events happening throughout the Bay Area till later this afternoon.
SF News SF Teen Slain In September Was Revenge Killing For Unsolved 2014 Murder A 19-year-old who was fatally shot in Crocker-Amazon two months ago appears to have been killed in a revenge attempt by the younger brother of a boy whose brother was murdered in the Mission five years ago.
SF News Feds Bust Oakland Gun Trafficker Who Was Using Snapchat To Sell Illegal Weapons A 22-year-old Nevada resident who grew up in Oakland was recently busted in an undercover sting after selling 35 illegal handguns to a federal officer — and he was marketing the weapons entirely on Snapchat.
SF News Mysterious Shotgun Toter Killed In Late Night South San Francisco Fracas A scary morning in South San Francisco, as a yet-unidentified man wandering the streets with a shotgun was shot and killed by police. As of this morning, the police have still not determined
SF News Apple Is Coming To Take Your Gun Emoji In a literally symbolic gesture, Apple is removing the gun emoji from its forthcoming mobile operating system, iOS 10, replacing the signifier of violence with an illustration of a toy water gun. Your
SF News Uber's In-App Response To Gun Violence Is Weird And Tone Deaf Following on their kind and mildly helpful response in the wake of the mass shooting of LGBT people in Orlando they were giving free rides all the following weekend to and from various
SF News Oakland Approves Law Banning High-Capacity Gun Magazines Following President Obama's Tuesday press conference announcing new executive action on gun control, Oakland city officials moved yesterday to pass new laws of their own with the goal of reducing gun violence. The
SF News Steph Curry Speaks Out Against Gun Violence In Spike Lee-Directed PSA Tomorrow when NBA fans tune in to Christmas Day games like a rematch of the 2015 finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and our defending champion Golden State Warriors, they'll see some of their
SF News Update: SFPD Officer Shoots, Kills One In Mid-Market #SFPD activity Market St/8th St. Street closure on Market (7th to 9th). Hyde St (Fulton to Mission) Avoid area. pic.twitter.com/OgAKjjj29k— San Francisco Police (@SFPD) October 15, 2015 A Mid-Market
SF News Man Shot And Killed Driving His Ice Cream Truck In Oakland On Saturday, just four days after 27-year-old Antonio Ramos was shot and killed while painting a community empowerment and anti-violence mural in West Oakland, a locally known ice cream truck proprietor was also
SF News Rapper 'The Jacka' Shot Dead In East Oakland R.I.P. Bay Area legend @theJacka. http://t.co/WwBOwpNA7I pic.twitter.com/sHNwCa5eIo— The FADER (@thefader) February 3, 2015 37-year-old East Bay rapper Dominic Newton, more commonly known as "The Jacka,
SF News SFPD Complies With Judge's Order, Releases Names Of Officers Who Killed Bernal Heights Man The Friday news release is long-known as "a transparent attempt to evade fallout by burying bad news ahead of the weekend," as Slate put it over a decade ago. Perhaps that's why, after
SF News Local Production Company Puts Out PSA Encouraging Kids To Steal Their Parents' Guns A local company called Sleeper 13 Productions posted this video a couple weeks ago that advocates for ending gun violence by having kids steal their parents' handguns and turn them in to teachers
SF News Judge Rules That Names Of Officers Who Shot Alex Nieto Must Be Revealed Though the SFPD and the City Attorney have been stalling for time in the case of the officer-involved death of Alex Nieto this past March, a federal judge has just ruled that the
