SF News Court Rules Oakland Police Can Be Sued for 2022 Bystander Death A federal appeals court ruled Oakland police can be held liable for the 2022 death of Lolo Soakai, a bystander killed after an unauthorized pursuit—challenging qualified immunity and allowing the family's lawsuit to proceed.
SF News Sideshows Have Made It All the Way Out to the Sunset, and Residents Are Pissed Sideshows, the dangerous, impromptu car-spinning gatherings that were once the purview of East Bay communities alone, have been moving across the bridge in the last couple of years, especially on warm weekends.
SF News Supervisor Sauter Has Had It With These Dirt Bike Gangs, Looks to Beef Up Enforcement Laws San Francisco’s street-riding dirt bike gangs have certainly gotten more brazen since the pandemic, and Supervisor Danny Sauter is fed up enough that he’s looking to change the rules around SFPD engagement and enforcement to break up the gangs.
SF News One Motorcycle Rider Killed, Another Injured In San Leandro, After 100 Bikers Disabled Train Arm For some reason, a group of an estimated 100 motorcyclists lifted the no-crossing arm at a train crossing when an incoming train was coming down the tracks in San Leandro Sunday, and a predictable accident and fatality followed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sideshows Migrated Across the Bay Sunday Morning There were sideshows in four Bay Area cities early Sunday, and one briefly shut down the Bay Bridge; the folks looking to recall SF Supervisor Joel Engardio now have a rap theme; and Trump is cozying up to the Saudis on two fronts.
SF News Triple Shooting at Weekend Sideshow In Oakland Leaves One Dead A Sunday evening sideshow led to Oakland's 11th homicide of the month and of the new year, with two other people injured by gunfire.
SF News Sideshow In Oakland Ends With BMW In Flames A roving sideshow early Sunday morning that moved from North Oakland closer to downtown, drawing hundreds of spectators, ended with one car fully engulfed in flames.
SF News Seven Men Indicted For Organizing Bay Area Sideshows Via Instagram San Jose Police announced the arrest of seven men at a news conference Thursday, under the city's three-year-old law that makes it a crime to promote or organize sideshows.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: CHP Seizes 16 Cars From Bay Bridge Sideshow Using surveillance footage, the CHP ID'd and seized 16 cars connected to a September Bay Bridge sideshow; the mummified body found on a toilet in Union City has been ID'd; and Rep. Eric Swalwell's war of words with Pamela Price is escalating.
SF News CHP Touts 1,100 Arrests, 2,000 Stolen Cars Recovered In Oakland This Year The governor's office and California Highway Patrol have provided another quarterly update on the CHP's efforts to aid Oakland police on the car-theft and sideshow front.
SF News Rampant Sideshows in Vallejo Early Sunday Morning, One Participants’ Pants Catch on Fire A swarm of sideshows in Vallejo brought multiple injuries early Sunday morning, including one participant who managed to get his pants caught on fire, and Vallejo’s mayor released an odd statement asking “Why don’t these brats do this where their momma lives.”
SF News Amazon Semi Truck Seems to Join In on NorCal Sideshow This seems like a first — an Amazon semi truck appears to have joined in on a recent sideshow in Sacramento, as several revelers jumped on the truck for the ride.
SF News Another 100-Vehicle Sideshow Shut Down the Bay Bridge Saturday Night It's become almost a guarantee that on warm-weather weekends, roving groups of vehicles are going to form sideshows, and one may try to shut down the Bay Bridge.
SF News Dirt Bike Mayhem Swarmed Both Sides of the Bay Sunday; Oakland Store Robbed, Traffic Held Up In SF The motorbike gangs were particularly brazen on both sides of the Bay Sunday afternoon, halting traffic on the Bay Bridge, allegedly robbing a store in Oakland, and creating bedlam in the Castro, Mission District, and North Beach.
SF News Sideshow With Cars, Snake, and a Ring of Fire Leaves One Dead In Vallejo In Vallejo, one person is dead after a sideshow early Saturday morning that included lasers, drones, cars drifting around a ring of fire, and guns fired.
SF News Special SFPD Unit Seizes Multiple Cars Linked to June Sideshow In San Francisco This spring and summer have been part of a very active season for sideshows on both sides of the Bay. And while some communities are passing new laws to crack down on these stunt-driving events, SF police have just seized several vehicles they say took part in one particularly wild sideshow in June.
SF News East Oakland Residents Create Their Own Renegade Barriers to Stop Sideshows, City Promptly Removes Them Tired of sideshows and reckless driving, residents of Oakland’s San Antonio neighborhood put tires filled with rocks and dirt in their streets as a deterrent. The City of Oakland quickly removed them.
SF News Sideshow Near Fruitvale BART In Oakland Leads to Shootout That Injures Five A shooting or shootout with multiple gunmen likely involved took place in the early hours of Sunday morning near the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland during an illegal sideshow.
SF News Pac Heights Getting Speed Bumps to Deter Sideshows, Because Yes, There Are Sideshows in Pac Heights A rash of recent sideshows in the tony neighborhood of Pacific Heights has led the city to install speed bumps to prevent the motor mayhem at Divisadero and California streets.
SF News Antioch Passes a Ban on Encouraging or Even Watching Sideshows The East Bay city of Antioch is struggling with too few cops and too many sideshows, but its city council just unanimously passed a ban on advertising, promoting, encouraging, or even watching a sideshow.
SF News Sunday Links: Yet Another Sideshow Shuts Down Bay Bridge There was yet another sideshow on the Bay Bridge early this morning; four people were injured in a shooting in Vallejo; and a two-acre grass fire broke out in San Francisco Saturday night.
SF News San Jose Police SUV Destroyed By Rowdy Sideshow Participants There's often a hefty amount of "Why didn't the police do anything?" talk when footage of the latest sideshow comes out, and police frequently respond that unruly crowds can get dangerous for officers, especially lone officers, when they try to intervene on the party.
SF News Roving Sideshows In SF and Oakland Include Vehicle Set Ablaze on Embarcadero There were more sideshows Saturday night and into Sunday morning, and a caravan of dozens of cars apparently moved from Oakland to San Francisco, putting on a sideshow on the Embarcadero and another in the Mission District.
SF News There Was a Saturday Sideshow On Van Ness Avenue, In the Middle of SF The encroachment of Oakland-style sideshows in San Francisco — particularly on warm-weather weekends — continues, and there was one on Saturday night that was surprisingly close to Pacific Heights.
SF News Motorcyclist Injured Amid Dirt Bike and ATV Sideshow Near Lake Merritt A Sunday evening sideshow near Oakland's Lake Merritt ended with one motorcyclist needing medical attention.
