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The left has gone completely mad, and as of right now, the corporate media are covering up this madness by not reporting on Garrels’ forced resignation.

San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Shamann Walton introduced municipal legislation on Tuesday called the “CAREN Act,” which would outlaw racist 911 calls but uses a term some regard as a racial slur against white women.

The University of California, San Francisco has admitted that it paid $1.14 million to “ransomware” hackers to retrieve research that hackers had temporarily compromised. The hackers initially demanded a payment of $3 million to return the data that they had stolen from the university.

Native American leaders in the San Francisco area are upset that city leaders decided to remove a statue of Christopher Columbus that was targeted by Black Lives Matter riots, because indigenous leaders were not consulted or present.

San Francisco archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has condemned the recent destruction of the statue of Saint Junipero Serra, blaming it on the hijacking of protests by irrational destructive forces and “mob rule.”

The City of San Francisco removed a statue of Christopher Columbus on Thursday that Black Lives Matter protesters had planned to destroy on Friday because of concerns for the health and safety of demonstrators and bystanders.

A statue of explorer Christopher Columbus near San Francisco’s Coit Tower was taken down Thursday after repeated incidents of vandalism.

SF Police hope to arrest looters who targeted high-end shops, after their images were captured on surveillance cameras.

Actor and comedian Jamie Foxx joined a “kneel in” in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Monday and said Hollywood celebrities should come out on the streets to support protesters in response to the death last week of George Floyd.

Deaths have soared among the homeless population in San Francisco during the coronavirus, but not due to the virus directly.

The City of San Francisco opened its first officially-sanctioned homeless camp this week, located outside City Hall.

Half of the 15,000 hotel rooms leased under Operation Roomkey, California’s program to provide emergency housing to the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic, are empty.

The San Francisco Bay Area went two consecutive days without recording a single death from coronavirus on Sunday and Monday — the first time that has happened since March.

The first temporary sanctioned tent encampment opened this week in San Francisco, California, to give the homeless somewhere to go during the health crisis.

The city of San Francisco is facing a lawsuit filed by the University of California Hastings College of the Law, local businesses, and local residents over the Tenderloin district’s “deplorable” conditions including feces in the streets and relentless drug dealing.

Data released from the California Departments of Health and Social Services on Friday show that nursing home deaths represent almost half of the coronavirus fatalities in the state.

San Francisco’s health department confirmed that it is providing drugs and alcohol to addicts to keep them from breaking quarantine.

San Francisco officials confirmed on Wednesday that the city is providing homeless addicts being lodged in hotels with pot, booze, and tabacco.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that the state may begin to reopen its economy Friday, entering the next phase of his recovery plan.

San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott told his officers in an email on Friday that the “thin blue line” mask design will no longer be permitted.

Democrat Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones will be joining Scott Presler and volunteers on Saturday to pick up trash on the streets of Atlanta, GA, as the nation slowly begins to open up after a draconian lockdown across the country to fight the coronavirus outbreak.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) promoted tourism to San Franciso, California’s Chinatown and was moving forward with legislation to prevent presidents from issuing travel bans while President Trump implemented a travel ban from China to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus. 

A report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that 66% of homeless people in a San Francisco shelter tested positive for coronavirus, renewing concerns about indoor housing during the pandemic.

San Francisco has canceled plans to move hundreds of homeless people to a large indoor space in a convention center after 70 people at a shelter tested positive for coronavirus. It will move homeless people to hotels instead — or leave them in tents.

Gerald Shiroma, a worker at the Union Rescue Mission homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles, died from coronavirus late last week, according to shelter director Rev. Andrew Bales.

San Francisco supervisors are weighing what they believe to be a “health threat” tied to the “panic buying” of guns and ammunition. 

San Francisco, the city that has been at the forefront of a left-wing movement to ban plastic bags for more than a decade, announced this week that residents would no longer be allowed to use reusable bags at the grocery store, because of the threat of transmitting coronavirus.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to investigate President Trump for his actions in the lead-up to the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., but in February, she dismissed the threat with a visit to San Francisco’s Chinatown.

Some homeless people are reportedly skeptical of a new plan by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to relocate them to recreation centers in residential communities to contain the coronavirus pandemic, fearful they will be less safe in shelters.

Mayor Eric Garcetti is going ahead with a plan to move thousands of homeless people in Los Angeles into recreation centers in residential neighborhoods as part of the city’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

California attorney and Republican Party official Harmeet Dhillon blasted her hometown of San Francisco over its response to the coronavirus outbreak in a series of tweets on Tuesday.

The city of San Francisco placed a ban on public events of more than 1,000 people due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, Mayor London Breed announced Wednesday.

Tech giant Google has reportedly instructed all 100,000 of its North American employees to work from home due to the outbreak of Wuhan coronavirus.

Scott Presler said President Donald Trump’s tweets about the trash-filled streets in Baltimore inspired him to help clean up the city.

Facebook and Google have reportedly followed the path of social media platform Twitter in ordering their workforce in the San Francisco Bay Area to stay home due to fears over the spread of the coronavirus.

San Francisco on Tuesday declared a state of emergency over the deadly Chinese coronavirus after a top public health official warned its spread across the United States was inevitable and could dramatically impact Americans’ everyday life.