Last week, Bob Lee, a technology executive who founded the mobile payment company Cash App, was stabbed near the upscale Rincon Hills area of San Francisco.
There are currently no suspects. The UK Daily Mail has obtained security footage showing a shadowy figure wheeling away a suitcase and searching through flower beds seconds after Lee was stabbed.
Cops have declined to say whether the stranger is a potential suspect or person of interest in Tuesday morning’s murder or whether any items – such as a suitcase – were stolen from the Cash App founder, 43.A spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department told DailyMail.com that detectives were aware of the security camera video but discussing the details could ‘affect the integrity of the investigation.’
One day after the stabbing, San Francisco Fire Commissioner Don Carmignani was brutally attacked by a transient with a metal crowbar just steps away from his family’s front door, located in one of the best neighborhoods in the city.
Carmignani was attacked a day after Cash App founder Bob Lee was stabbed to death by an unknown assailant early Tuesday morning.Carmignani, 53, was leaving his mother’s home at about 7 p.m. in the Marina District when he was accosted by a man waving an industrial metal crowbar, friends of the ex-commissioner told The Post.San Francisco Police later arrested Garret Doty, 24, who was booked on assault with a deadly weapon.Joe Alioto-Veronese, a prominent attorney and friend, said Carmignani was at his mother’s home when he noticed Doty and two other transients blocking the driveway.When Carmignani asked them to move, he was bludgeoned in the back of the head by Doty, which injured the former smoke-eater’s skull and brain.
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi represents San Francisco. She is preparing remarks about the violence in the city.
“It’s very sad and tragic — any loss of life is tragic,” Pelosi said, “but when you know the person, it hits home in a different way.” She said she did not know Lee herself, but many of her friends did.Pelosi said that she would “have more to say” soon about the city’s fentanyl problem. The issue has received additional attention after critics noted that drug dealing was rampant outside the federal building on Seventh Street named after her, the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building.
However, those remarks will not top those of Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, who was dissecting the leadership of California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Carlson described Newsom as “the triumph of packaging over reality.” He also cited Lee’s murder.
“This is the state in which crime has been legalized and the only crimes are now thought crimes. If you disagree with the people in charge, then you’re in serious trouble,” Carlson said. “But if you hurt others or steal, you’re fine. You’re part of a protected class. That’s the definition of tyranny.”
As a Californian, I will note that Carlson’s critique did not go far enough. But it was so savage I was tempted to call 9-1-1 and report a murder.
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