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Chief learns hard lesson in S.F. etiquette {Gascon: 'This is San Francisco. I get it'}
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/27/10 | C.W. Nevius

Posted on 03/27/2010 10:05:49 AM PDT by SmithL

When George Gascón became San Francisco's police chief, it was a revelation. He held news conferences without checking with higher-ups, and called back reporters promptly to offer unvarnished opinions. Compared with the usual bunker mentality at SFPD, it was a whole new world.

I once asked someone in City Hall if Gascón would be asked to tone it down.

"They'll let him go until he puts his foot in it," they said.

This week he did.

At a breakfast meeting Wednesday to discuss the earthquake-safety bond measure, Gascón veered off onto the topic of terrorism. He said that San Francisco has a large number of immigrants from Yemen and Afghanistan, and added that those are two countries where international terrorism often emanates.

Others told The Chronicle they heard him say the Hall of Justice is susceptible to members of the city's Middle Eastern community parking a van in front of it and blowing it up.

Dumb, dumb and dumb.

The last thing you want to do in San Francisco is imply that the diversity of the city is somehow dangerous or unfortunate.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: diversity; gascon; islam; sanfranciscovalues; sfpd
0ops!
1 posted on 03/27/2010 10:05:49 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Now, watch it happen and have him turn out to be right.


2 posted on 03/27/2010 10:07:16 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod (New Wizard of Oz: Pelosi as the Wicked Witch of the West & Michelle as the Wicked Witch of the East.)
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To: SmithL
Now if he starts talking about radical right wing teabaggers, they'll make him mayor by proclamation.
3 posted on 03/27/2010 10:08:27 AM PDT by JohnLongIsland ( schmuckie schucks)
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To: BlessedBeGod
Now, watch it happen and have him turn out to be right.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving city!

4 posted on 03/27/2010 10:13:03 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: SmithL

I can’t understand why he’d accept the job in ‘Frisco to begin with.


5 posted on 03/27/2010 10:13:45 AM PDT by norton
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To: norton

He used to butt heads with Sheriff Joe in Mesa, AZ.


6 posted on 03/27/2010 10:15:07 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (:: Happy Dependence Day!. ::)
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To: SmithL

it`s called Post-Chrismas Day Yemini Underwear Bomber
Precautionary Measures-
or haven`t we learned anything after 10 years?


7 posted on 03/27/2010 10:16:06 AM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: SmithL

This is funny because when old Georgy boy was in Mesa illegals could do no wrong. Does Senor Gascon has a little racist problem maybe?AWB


8 posted on 03/27/2010 10:16:20 AM PDT by Americanwolfsbrother (2010 - Throw every incumbent in Washington out on their asses!!!)
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To: SmithL
At a breakfast meeting Wednesday to discuss the earthquake-safety bond measure, Gascón veered off onto the topic of terrorism. He said that San Francisco has a large number of immigrants from Yemen and Afghanistan, and added that those are two countries where international terrorism often emanates.

They could be doing us a favor.

9 posted on 03/27/2010 10:19:18 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Situational federalism is the same problem as selective incorporation.)
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To: SmithL
But it is. And I’m not even primarily talking about the Middle Eastern community.
10 posted on 03/27/2010 10:22:59 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: SmithL

This is why I tell my fellow conservatives that there are but two things worth a damn in that city: 1) the SF Giants, and 2) Pier 23, which is one bar in the City you don’t have to worry about dropping anything. Take that and AT&T Park, make it part of a floating island somewhere in the Bay, and the tectonic plates can have their way with the rest.


11 posted on 03/27/2010 10:24:11 AM PDT by GOP_Raider (<----Click over there for a special message from GOP_Raider)
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To: SmithL; John Semmens

This presumably serious article reads exactly like one of John Semmens’s great FR satires. John do you think it’s even possible to satirize this? Maybe it was written tongue-in-cheek but I suspect not.


12 posted on 03/27/2010 10:35:04 AM PDT by Bernard Marx (I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
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To: SmithL
Smitty, this guy is just as much a left-wing loon as anyone else in Gaytown.

If the SOB had a serious bone in his body, he'd be all over the queer DA to issue an arrest warrant for Bill Ayers. He placed a bomb in the SFPD copshack that killed an officer and wounded others.

Tough Guy? No. More like Affirmative Action Anus.

13 posted on 03/27/2010 10:51:47 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Obama. He'll bring back States' Rights. In the meantime, this ain't gonna be pretty.)
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To: SmithL

Didn’t an Afgani drive into town from Fremont and shoot Jews on the street in the last year or two?


14 posted on 03/27/2010 11:28:27 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Kenny Bunk

Yeah, but it’s fun to watch.


15 posted on 03/27/2010 5:36:05 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: Carry_Okie

“They could be doing us a favor.”

Partially, perhaps. But, then again, they might manage to attack lots of urban Big Sh*tties.


16 posted on 03/27/2010 7:18:55 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: GOP_Raider

How about the view from the top of the Mark?


17 posted on 03/27/2010 9:47:41 PM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: SmithL
Others told The Chronicle they heard him say the Hall of Justice is susceptible to members of the city's Middle Eastern community parking a van in front of it and blowing it up.
Dumb, dumb and dumb.
The last thing you want to do in San Francisco is imply that the diversity of the city is somehow dangerous or unfortunate.

Just because nasty things have happened several times already elsewhere and, almost daily worldwide, doesn't mean it can happen again.
Further, diversity is always rainbows and cotton candy, even if the darlings never have the desire to integrate, so at the very worse they are harmless and won't ever kill, maim or harm anyone.

Dumber!

Dumber!

and

Dumber!

18 posted on 03/27/2010 10:24:00 PM PDT by Publius6961 (You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do)
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