Smash-And-Grab: San Francisco Continues To Provide Trump With Propaganda

San Francisco CA

06 December, 2021

9:20 PM

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By Joe Eskenazi, Mission Local December 6, 2021 Despite advocates' pleas to ban cars from Great Highway or JFK Drive, it was Union Square that has been declared car-free. Silly advocates: If they wanted vehicles verboten from Great Highway or JFK, they should've organized a smash-and-grab robbery — if opportunistic mobs motored off with armfuls of de Koonings, there'd be no damn cars on JFK lickety split. That's how it went down at Union Square after organized groups, like Visigoths of old, on Nov. 19 swarmed the high-end retail shops and made off with armfuls of Louis Vuitton purses and other luxury items. And that accomplished what years of community process could not — the pedestrianization of Union Square. But wait, there's more: The horse may be out of the barn, a $30,000 purse clutched in its teeth, but San Francisco has spared no expense reinforcing the barn door. Union Square now has enough law-enforcement personnel on the ground to rival the closing scenes of Ghostbusters. The notion of hordes of thieves hitting the same spot again is dubious — especially after you've barricaded the streets. But, if they were foolish enough to try, it'd be akin to attempting to rob a police station. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.