How safe is SF?

[garbon]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/03/BAV91CAGLG.DTL&tsp=1

Three cousins from Hayward have been charged in San Francisco with a hate crime and assault for allegedly firing a BB rifle at the face of a man they believed was gay, an attack the men videotaped, authorities said Wednesday.

Mohammad Habibzada, Shafiq Hashemi and Sayed Bassam, all 24, are scheduled to be arraigned today in San Francisco Superior Court. They are free on $50,000 bond apiece.

The victim of Friday's attack was walking on the 3200 block of 16th Street near Guerrero Street about 10 p.m. when a car pulled up and someone inside opened fire with a BB rifle, police said.

The man was hit in the face but refused medical treatment, said Lt. Lyn Tomioka, spokeswoman for the Police Department. He reported the shooting to police, who pulled over a car that matched the assailants' vehicle a short distance away and arrested the three Hayward men.

Investigators believe the assailants chose the victim because he appeared to be gay. When the men were pulled over, police found a video camera that was used to film the shooting, investigators said.

Assistant District Attorney Victor Hwang, the prosecutor in the case, said the men are cooperating in the investigation.

Authorities are looking into whether the attack was isolated or whether there have been similar BB gun shootings elsewhere in the Bay Area. Police have been unable to find victims to support any additional allegations, but Hwang said, "We believe we have the evidence to show that there was targeting of individuals who they believed to be gay."

He added, "We know about this one case. We want to know about if there are any other cases."

I often walk that way after class and used to walk that way to the clubs.

[The Brain]

Mohammad Habibzada, Shafiq Hashemi and Sayed Bassam

I've heard enough. Guilty.

Good thing they only used the BB rifle though, if they had used its main guns things would have been a lot worse.

[Jaron]

At least in America, muslims actually go to jail.

[jimmy olsen]

One incident does not a dangerous city make.

[garbon]

One incident does not a dangerous city make.

It does when it's your neighborhood!

[Jaron]

One incident does not a dangerous city make.

It does when it's your neighborhood!

[HisMajestyBOB]

One incident does not a dangerous city make.

Haven't you seen the Dirty Harry series? SF is the worst crime-ridden hell hole in America, worse than Detroit!

[Eddie Teach]

One incident does not a dangerous city make.

I wouldn't want to be living in Hiroshima.

[The Brain]

One incident does not a dangerous city make.

I wouldn't want to be living in Hiroshima.

[Eddie Teach]

NUKES = BAD

[The Brain]

Oh fuck off you cocksmoking whore.

[Caliga]

One incident does not a dangerous city make.

It does when it's your neighborhood!

Guess how many hate crimes have happened in my county this year?  Zero. 

Somehow city life is better, though.

Some crazy dude murdered his wife here last year, but that was the first murder in like a decade.

[Josquius]

They attacked someone by believing he was gay in SF?
And with that my prejudices about that city collapse.

[Eddie Teach]

They attacked someone by believing he was gay in SF?
And with that my prejudices about that city collapse.

If anything it should be reinforcing your prejudices about Mideasterners.

[PDH]

Hayward

And those who laughed at me when I said a fence around Hayward was a good thing...where are they now?