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EXCLUSIVE: SF firefighter describes brutal 2022 attack by colleague that ended his career
abc7news.com ^ | June 13, 2024 | Dan Noyes

Posted on 06/15/2024 1:14:57 PM PDT by lowbridge

Gabriel Shin described the attack at the hands of another San Francisco firefighter. "The whole time I was yelling at him, I said, 'Robert, stop, what's wrong with you, stop,' you know, and he just didn't stop. He was relentless."

Shin is talking publicly for the first time about a brutal attack that he says ended his career. Another firefighter stands charged with beating him with a hydrant wrench.

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Connected to this attack, Gabriel Shin has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit that asks a basic question. Why was the victim forced out of the San Francisco Fire Department and the suspect still works there?

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Court records show that, two days after that phone call, Robert Muhammad used a computer at Station 25 to retrieve Shin's work schedule and his home address, and left the station with what's called a "hydrant spanner" - a heavy, brass wrench measuring 15 inches that's used to turn the water on and off. Muhammad drove across the bridge to Shin's home in Oakland and found him out front, sweeping the sidewalk.

"I heard somebody say, 'Are you going to tell me, are you going to tell me who told you?'" Shin said. "And I turned around and I said, 'Robert, what are you doing here?' He said, 'Who are you protecting?' I said, 'I forgot.' And then he reached into his back pocket. He pulled out the large brass spanner, and he started swinging at my head."

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Court records allege Muhammad swung the wrench at Shin's head approximately twelve times, breaking his arms as he tried to protect himself, giving him a concussion. One blow sent Shin's glasses across the street, he said. The attack stopped only after a neighbor who works against human trafficking pulled a handgun and confronted Muhammad.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; blacksupremacy; california; jihad; muhammad; obamasfault; sanfrancisco
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To: lowbridge

Muhammad.

Only stopped when neighbor pulled a gun.


21 posted on 06/15/2024 1:54:55 PM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Fido969

“ hydrant spanner”

It’s a term for the specific tool.


22 posted on 06/15/2024 1:56:23 PM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: lowbridge

“The attack stopped only after a neighbor who works against human trafficking pulled a handgun and confronted Muhammad.”


23 posted on 06/15/2024 2:01:18 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Fido969

Depends. Pin and hook spanners are commonly referred to as such, as least where I’ve worked. I’d say it’s reserved for specialty tools designed for a singular purpose, like a hydrant.


24 posted on 06/15/2024 2:15:37 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: lowbridge
The suspect still works there because - Robert Muhammad
25 posted on 06/15/2024 2:23:02 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: lowbridge

A total mystery.


26 posted on 06/15/2024 2:33:59 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Fido969

Plenty of different “spanner wrenches” in the American lexicon.


27 posted on 06/15/2024 2:39:11 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: VTenigma

Plenty of different “spanner wrenches” in the American lexicon.


https://www.finepowertools.com/hand-tools/spanner-vs-wrench/

I have never used the word spanner...............


28 posted on 06/15/2024 2:41:04 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: MV=PY

Yes, but I’ve only heard it in Brit manuals.


29 posted on 06/15/2024 2:43:40 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: lowbridge

“The attack stopped only after a neighbor who works against human trafficking pulled a handgun and confronted Muhammad.”

What if the neighbor didn’t work against human trafficking? Would that have meant being brought up on gun charges?


30 posted on 06/15/2024 2:47:50 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: VTenigma

I don’t think I saw it in Chilton’s.

Hayes, though, yes, of course.


31 posted on 06/15/2024 2:48:08 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: PeterPrinciple

You must live a sheltered life.


32 posted on 06/15/2024 3:02:31 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: VTenigma

You must live a sheltered life


Oh we watch tv and know what it means. We don’t use it in the midwest.


33 posted on 06/15/2024 3:06:23 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

I was just poking you.


34 posted on 06/15/2024 3:20:04 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Fido969

Just most of the Fire Departments in the USA call a spanner a spanner, however it might be shaped several ways.


35 posted on 06/15/2024 3:20:06 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: VTenigma

interesting. note the following usage and dates. Libs are busy changing words again.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spanner

Examples of spanner in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web

The delusion is to believe that moral purity and perfection are possessions, that imperfection is shameful, that violence is a spanner in the works, rather than part of the inner portion of everyone.
—Lawrence Jackson, Harper’s Magazine, 10 July 2023

European politicians now fear a Magyar spanner in the works.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023

McCarthy, for instance, largely used his perch to put a spanner in the works of the legislative process while pushing the ridiculous investigations favored by right-wing media and the party’s most radical members.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023

Few affairs of the quantum world are simple, but the spanner in these quantum works is the fact that the Standard Model’s prediction itself is blurry.
—Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023

To most of the general public, short films are just the spanner that’ll always mess up your Oscars pool.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024

The 2024 Mercedes-AMG EQE SUV, however, tosses a tiny yet highly conductive virtual spanner into that symbiotic groove.
—Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 10 July 2023

There is a strong suspicion that nicotine can throw a spanner in the works throughout this time — a particular concern given the growing popularity of vaping among young people.
—Anthony King, Scientific American, 13 June 2023

Making these fixes takes more than a spanner or some glue.
—Solitaire Townsend, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022


36 posted on 06/15/2024 3:24:28 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: DainBramage

The fire hydrants I’ve seen use 5-sided ‘shafts’ for the valve control. A normal open end wrench, or even a 6 or 12 sided socket won’t fit it. A crescent wrench with parallel ‘faces’ won’t fit. (A pipe wrench will work, biting into the shaft).

This keeps the ordinary citizen from fooling with the hydrant.

A 5-sided ‘socket’ on the spanner will fit perfectly.


37 posted on 06/15/2024 3:28:27 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"I heard somebody say, 'Are you going to tell me, are you going to tell me who told you?'" Shin said. "And I turned around and I said, 'Robert, what are you doing here?' He said, 'Who are you protecting?' I said, 'I forgot.'

I would like a little more context here before making a judgment. Given the location this seems a bit gay.

The fact the reporter omitted any context likely confirms it.

38 posted on 06/15/2024 3:28:46 PM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: lowbridge
The city of San Francisco isn't trying to get Gabriel Shin to drop charges against Robert Muhammad because Robert Muhammad is "protected". They're trying to get him to drop the charges because if Robert Muhammad is found guilty, Gabriel Shin has even more weight in any lawsuit against city because Robert Muhammad used a work computer at the station to retrieve Gabriel Shin's work schedule and home address before taking a hydrant wrench (tool from the workplace) and leaving the station to attack Gabriel Shin.

The failure of the San Francisco Fire Department to protect Gabriel Shin's personal information is a contributor to his injuries.

Gabriel Shin needs to sue the snot out of the city of San Francisco.

39 posted on 06/15/2024 3:39:42 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Fido969

British usage, like calling a car hood a “bonnet” . . . .


40 posted on 06/15/2024 3:40:29 PM PDT by JimmyTheFish
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