*snicker*
Posted on 07/22/2008 7:39:27 AM PDT by SmithL
On July 6, SFPD Officer Lisa Frazer responded to several calls about a homeless man named George Miley, who has a long history of terrorizing neighbors at 18th and Diamond in the Castro. But when Frazer tried to serve Miley with a citation for loitering, he became obstreperous and then violent. Frazer only had time to call for backup before he charged her.
"He came at me," she said. "He grabbed my microphone and severed the cord so I couldn't call. He ripped my shirt, he scratched me with his fingernails."
Luckily, support arrived quickly. It took three officers to subdue Miley, handcuff him and take him into custody.
Whew. So at least that situation was handled, right?
Not really. Four days later Frazer was at the Hall of Justice, having her injuries photographed when she got word that Miley was being released. He got two years probation and an order to stay away from the intersection. Another homeless person that the system failed to help or at least get off the streets.
Wait, you haven't heard the worst of it. A review of Miley's rap sheet, which runs 16 pages, shows 104 misdemeanor arrests and two felony arrests since 2001. In that time, including the four days he served this month, Miley has been in jail for a total of 64 days. That's for three convictions. Everything else was - in the court's legal term - "dismissed in the interest of justice."
"Whose justice?" Frazer asked. "Not the community. Not mine. Now the city is stuck dealing with this guy. When he gets out of jail he acts with impunity."
This has been a long-standing complaint in San Francisco, of course. For years officials have discussed the lack of accountability for homeless people who rack up piles of citations...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
*snicker*
Why didn’t she shoot him when he was attacking her?
I’m not in law enforcement so I don’t know the protocol but if some nut job charged me I think I would probably reach for my pepper spray, my tazer or (I know it’s San Francisco) my gun in order to defend myself before I tried to call for backup.
Also: a half-way competent reporter would have named the judges who have repeatedly let this guy go free.
It's the Chronicle. They don't have any reporters who are even half competent.
These are the same clowns who, during the Democrat's attempt to steal the 2000 election, reported that there were "several hundred" protesters in Justin Herman Plaza "protesting against the recount" when there were at least 2 or 3 thousand of us and we were protesting against what amounted to a coup attempt. The same ones that were up in their offices holding up a sign that said "Fascists".
They allow nothing to come between them and their preconceptions.
“.... if some nut job charged me I think I would probably reach for my pepper spray, my tazer or (I know it’s San Francisco) my gun...”
...me too, but in S.F.I think they reach for the K.Y. jelly and bend over...
....and BTW is it just me, or does it seem like every day there’s yet another nuts-o story coming out of that city?.
Man you ought to see the ones that DON'T make the papers!
San Franciscans live in a hell of their own making.
That’s one ugly homeless dude.
Ugly AND armed!
Wow, new word, obstreperous:
1. resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
2. noisy, clamorous, or boisterous: obstreperous children.
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