Posted on 01/10/2007 10:25:26 PM PST by george76
- KGO - Members of a renowned choral group from Yale University were attacked outside a New Year's Eve party in San Francisco, sending several of them to the hospital.
Now the police department is coming under fire for its handling of the case.
This does not look good for the city. Yale sends its popular singing group, The Baker's Dozen, on a holiday concert tour.
And San Francisco sends the young men away bloody, bruised, and several of them seriously injured.
Laura Aziz sent her son, Sharyar, off on a concert tour with one of Yale University's singing groups -- he came to San Francisco over New Year's.
The Baker's Dozen are a 58-year tradition at Yale. They've put out two dozen albums and toured the country, with appearances at the White House and Los Angeles Lakers games...
Reno Rapagnani, Retired SFPD Lawyer: "I had given strict orders to my daughter that if anything got out of hand that the party would be over."
The trouble started at midnight after The Baker's Dozen sang "The Star Spangled Banner." Witnesses say a few local young men didn't appreciate the attention the Yale students were getting, made fun of their conservative dress and began taunting them and making threats.
(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...
The choir was performing at the home of a retired police officer and were ambushed afterwards by a group of men...
questions regarding how police handled the incident. No arrests have been made.
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nice work
San Francisco is is just a pathetic, urine soaked, three ring freak show.
Do they know who assaulted the choir members...have any been arrested yet...?
"Do they know who assaulted the choir members...have any been arrested yet...?"
I don't know but the TITLE SAID ""No Arrests By SFPD"
The leader of this freak show is
speaker of the house.
I wonder if Mr. Weiner was one of the
perps?
Bonaparte lives there.
I was hoping that he had some more current information.
As I recall, he got P.O.'d about how PC the force was becoming THEN and finally pitched his badge. I think it was the one where the guy hijacked the bus full of kids.
Apparently some of the drunks have taken over some of the bus stop benches, etc.
and are very protective ?
That the choir sang The Star Spangled Banner and then got beat up says lots about the SF homies.
That the SF police will ( apparently ) not arrest the known thugs is double special.
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That is very good !
Same morals Pelosi's going to bring to D.C.
Her husband ''just happens'' to own a big chunk of land which used to belong to the Federal Government (us taxpayers): Hunters Point Naval Shipyards.
Her protégé, Gavin Newsom, current Mayor of San Francisco, is trying to strike up a deal where the San Francisco 49ers will get that land and stay in the city, rather than moving to Santa Clara and building a new stadium down there.
But there seems to be some problem with the Naval shipyard being a Superfund cleanup site.
Stand by for developments as the blinkless wonder simultaneously cleans up corruption in the Senate, and finds a way around this ''Inconvenient Truth.''
They don't call San Fransicko "Bagdad by the Bay" for nothing, folks! I should know. I've lived there for years and can't WAIT to leave it.
Yes, no.
That the singers got taunted for dressing and acting conservatively is a small, if poignant, detail. This is a tale of sons of power perhaps skating on a crime.
sounds like a its going to democrats wet dream. Unions doing the cleanup which means it will take 3 times as long and as 3 times more expensive. Dems getting kickbacks from the unions for re-elections. Lots of pandering to the environmental wackos.
"Bagdad by the Bay"
Hopefully, the police are doing work to make the charges stick...and not a cover-up.
I don't understand, this is San Fransisco, aren't those labels of honor?
Of course, the back story here is a prominent, and probably rich, former Police Department Lawyer had a party for his daughter, in which he was able to invite a prestigeous 12-person choir to perform, along with children of other prominent local officials -- and he had no control over his party. The liberal rich -- all money, spent in self-indulgence, with no responsibility or concern for how others are effected by their greed and selfishness.
Would this lawyer and friends not stick up for the invited choir ?
SF...just another reason NOT to go there...
that fixed it!
So many families with children have left SF that the schools have a big problem.
The school boards are trying to justify keeping nearly empty buildings open.
Then the teacher's union gets upset that they may lose some of their union dues
yea, well I'm down in OC and most everyone we know down here is home schooling their children.
Even the Catholic schools down here have something to be desired since the nuns are history.
oh and don't forget...the Lefties have been aborting their children for a generation while the Conservatives have been raising theirs...so look for Calif and the rest of the country to continue to become more conservative.
Home schooling is a good thing.
There are many networks that also increase the educational experience for the kids
and not just sports
The left loves to abort their children.
Of course, many of the same sex people never reproduce.
We'll see. San Francisco is very corrupt and elitist, and the SFPD has a very poor record of getting to the bottom of cases involving people who are "connected".
The key words here are "Police Department Lawyer". These folks are part of the SFPD "family" and they've got to live here as well. They will do enough to create some plausible deniability and then perhaps let it go at that. The leading perps are the sons of a prominent San Francisco physician, and also the SFPD has thus far shown itself poorly. Something has got to give. I think justice for the victims might be determined least important here.
Thanks.
I hope that we can put enough pressure on this that Fox News then puts even more pressure on the SFPD.
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Conservatives have not aborted theirs, but they have one or maybe two. Muslims average six per family. Mark Steyn gives Europe, what, five or ten years before it's majority Muslim? Here, give it just a few more. Mosques going up in all major cities. Conservatives don't abort, but they are barely reproducing. The world will not be liberal in another generation, but it will certainly be different.
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Fox News may cover this soon ?
Sean said that he was going to cover this...
8-)
already did and Hannity & Colmes are having one of the singers on tonight
Thanks.
I hope that the SFPD are now forced to act on what they are trying to cover up.
Great post!
Bottom line is SF doesn't resemble the USA at all these days and one of their own is trying to change the whole country to HER values.
The moment an ABC affiliate got a hold of it, that was when it was te beginning of thend for these punks. They better get used to satellite trucks b/c they'll be seeing a lot of them parked outside their familiy's homes for a while. They also angered a school that has very influential and powerful alum(incl.GWB and GHWB) No one's getting away with anything anytime soon
Hannity just offered $10k for info on the guys who attacked them
I heard him. This is a travesty that the PD tried to let it slide under the radar.
This is the first ( for me ) that Fox News was covering it.
Sean offered $ 10,000 for help to further expose the perps...
Hopefully the SFPD will now do a line up that they apparently refused to do right after the beatings.
Welcome to liberal-land... I don't see a lot of difference between what happens in NOLA and what goes on in Detroit, San Francisco and other large, liberal, cities around the country. In this case, they picked on some good kids and couldn't hide the truth.
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