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Czech news crew in S.F. covering APEC robbed at gunpoint while filming an iconic spot
sfchronicle ^ | 11-13-23 | Rachel Swan

Posted on 11/13/2023 7:54:14 PM PST by dynachrome

Czech TV journalist Bohumil Vostal was capturing what he thought would be a majestic shot — San Francisco’s iconic City Lights bookstore, steeped in the gathering dusk — when three masked assailants approached with guns pointed.

“They were heading at my camera man, aiming a gun at his stomach, and one at my head,” Vostal said in an interview Monday, growing breathless as he recounted the harrowing incident at 5 p.m. the night before.

Vostal is among hundreds of international correspondents who flocked to San Francisco this week for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, an event drawing some of the world’s most powerful leaders to downtown and Nob Hill. Like many reporters, Vostal had seen news coverage of unruly shoplifters, open-air drug markets and commercial vacancies, but he hoped to portray the city in a more positive light.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; apec; banglist; california; crime; czechnews; dystopia; media; newscum; sanfrancisco; xi
LOL
1 posted on 11/13/2023 7:54:14 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

City Lights Bookstore is in on Columbus Ave in the North Beach district, a nice part of town. I don’t think armed robberies are that common there, but it’s been a long time since I was there last. Our days of going to SF for a fun outing ended ten years ago or so.


2 posted on 11/13/2023 7:58:00 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: dynachrome

It is funny and predictable
But sad for the world to see.


3 posted on 11/13/2023 7:58:05 PM PST by RWGinger (FJB)
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To: dynachrome

All according to George Soros’ plan.


4 posted on 11/13/2023 7:58:06 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: dynachrome

Euro trash wanted to disprove what he assumed was right wing propaganda.


5 posted on 11/13/2023 8:05:11 PM PST by nwrep
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To: dynachrome

I expect them to literally SEAL OFF the city now. If you want to pass through checkpoints, you had better make a damn strong case.

(of course it all goes back to ‘normal’ once this is over)


6 posted on 11/13/2023 8:12:49 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: dynachrome

Now we know where the undesirables went after Gov. Greaseball cleaned up the city for Master Xi.


7 posted on 11/13/2023 8:12:59 PM PST by twister881
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To: dynachrome
three masked assailants
They mean they couldn't tell if the ones with the guns were black or white? Asking for a friend.
8 posted on 11/13/2023 8:19:57 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: dynachrome

One would think that Czech journalists would avoid San Francisco like the prague.


9 posted on 11/13/2023 8:20:20 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: dynachrome

The Amish robbers left nothing but some blank Czechs.


10 posted on 11/13/2023 10:12:07 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
While I've never been to S.F., I would say that news reports give the impression it most likely has changed considerably if the last time you were there was a decade or so ago.

The whole of California has lost the appeal that it once enjoyed. That probably holds true for California girls as well.

11 posted on 11/13/2023 10:41:28 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: twister881

Good point.


12 posted on 11/13/2023 11:31:14 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: dynachrome

Czech TV journalist Bohumil Vostal. Hey, welcome to the party pal!. “Come out to the coast. We’ll get together, have a few laughs”.


13 posted on 11/14/2023 4:22:42 AM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: nwrep

Czechia has kept the melanated and islamated trash out of their country. I would not lump them in with the “eurotrash” in western Europe. Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, basically the former soviet bloc countries, have avoided the EU invited invasion and held on to their cultures.


14 posted on 11/14/2023 5:03:55 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Organic Panic

Media is leftist there.


15 posted on 11/14/2023 5:10:36 AM PST by nwrep
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“ City Lights Bookstore is in on Columbus Ave in the North Beach district, a nice part of town. I don’t think armed robberies are that common there,”

Been awhile since I lived there, but yes that used to a fairly safe part of town.
Everything liberals touch turns to clinton.


16 posted on 11/14/2023 5:14:06 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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