The last time we visited San Francisco at Legal Insurrection, the 49ers’ first-round draft pick had been shot in an apparent robbery attempt.
The follow-up news of Ricky Pearsall’s truly highlights the power of prayer and of God.
The 49ers rookie wide receiver was shot during an attempted armed robbery Saturday near San Francisco’s Union Square, with the bullet going through his chest without damage to his vital organs.And if the story couldn’t be any more remarkable, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan added another layer that ties perfectly into the sacred situation.”Once everyone walked in, no one knew the exact story, so I was able to reassure everybody as soon as they got there that he was totally fine,” Shanahan told reporters Thursday while recalling the 49ers’ team party that same Saturday night. “It’s a miracle. Where he got shot is like two inches below his tattoo with praying hands. The whole story is kind of amazing.”But to tell everyone right when they got there, it was really cool. And then about two hours later, Ricky got on [FaceTime] and talked to everybody.”
In another development nearly as miraculous, San Francisco, touted as a premier sanctuary city for immigrants, is now deporting migrants arrested in drug busts.
The reason is the lethality of fentanyl, which I have often noted in my reports on the substance.
Since last year, when fentanyl killed a record-breaking 656 people, more than 100 individuals have been charged as part of a federal sweep in San Francisco aimed at illegal drug sales — with most of the felons identified as undocumented migrants who get handed over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Bloomberg reported.“For people who are willing to sell poison that is killing people, there’s no protection for you. There’s no sanctuary for you,” Mayor London Breed told the outlet.“Fentanyl is such a deadly drug. It requires that we take more extreme measures,” she added.
San Francisco’s politicos are coming out of the haze of work euphoria and focusing on real quality-of-life issues.
It is interesting to note that the effort is being spearheaded by Ismail Ramsey, who took over as the Biden Administration’s top prosecutor in Northern California in 2023.
He said he met with community leaders including Breed and Nancy Pelosi, the former US House speaker and longtime San Francisco congresswoman, who asked him to intervene.Outside his 11th floor office window, Ramsey would watch a daily scene of people suffering from drug addiction cleared from an alleyway so schoolchildren could pass by. “It was just people splayed out on the floor,” he said. “And then the yellow buses come in, and the kids go out and they play. It was just a very strange scene.”He crafted San Francisco’s fentanyl crackdown soon after his confirmation, embarking on an unusual prosecution strategy, backed by surging law enforcement raids on drug dealers.US attorney offices typically target drug kingpins or corporate wrongdoing. Now, his office would focus on the low-level dealers often arrested with a few hundred dollars in their pocket. The strategy was meant to overcome the “revolving door” of dealers at San Francisco’s superior court, Ramsey said. “The same people being arrested and then coming right back and feeling like there was no accountability, no significant consequence.”
Of course, the move is related to the November mayoral race in San Francisco.
Officials have been aggressively trying to solve both. Since the Supreme Court ruling on Grant’s Pass, San Francisco has been dismantling encampments in the Tenderloin and other neighborhoods.SFPD has also been cracking down on drug dealing with help from state and federal law enforcement with 3,900 arrests and more than 500 pounds of drugs taken off the streets since the crackdown began in May of last year.While there has been some progress, the city’s next leader will have a lot to tackle on both fronts.
While it is nice to have something positive to report about the Bay Area, a substantial reduction in woke policies that promote illegal substance abuse and uncontrolled immigration is still needed.
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