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SAN FRANCISCO – Approximately 850 hotel workers made good on a promise to walk off the job Wednesday to participate in a six-day strike after tenuous labor negotiations between hotel management and the labor union representing the employees.
Workers at the Hilton Union Square, the area’s largest hotel, picketed in front of the building’s entrances. Union organizers said they would continue the picket line until Tuesday morning.
Cops & Courts, San Francisco »
(6/27) — 19:34 PDT — SAN FRANCISCO — A late night shooting in San Francisco’s Castro District during the city’s “Pink Saturday” celebration claimed the life of a 19-year-old man and left two others with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
BART Police Shooting, Cops & Courts »
LOS ANGELES — Video footage showing the New Year’s Day 2009 shooting of unarmed BART passenger Oscar Grant by a former BART Police Officer that has never before been viewed outside of a courtroom was publicly released by the Los Angeles County Superior Court Thursday afternoon.
Cops & Courts, Oakland »
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CALIFORNIA BEAT STAFF REPORT
The Oakland Police Dept. is defending the actions of one of its officers who was videotaped tasing an intoxicated baseball fan during the Aug 4 Athletics game at the Oakland Coliseum. In the video, posted online Thursday, three Oakland Police officers attempt to subdue the man, who is seated and appears to be drunk.
After several attempts to escort the man out of the stadium, and what the Department described as a threatening move by the man, one officer approaches the individual from behind and tases him.
Insight, San Francisco »
The finger-pointing will almost certainly get fiercer in the days and weeks to come in the aftermath of last Saturday’s collision between two MUNI Metro streetcars at the West Portal Station. Four dozen people were injured in that incident — almost all of them were transported to area hospitals for evaluation.
But in the criticism that we have heard in the days following the incident, criticism levied against MUNI, the train operator, the protectionist transit workers union, and the problem-plagued Automatic Train Control technology that contributed to the great MUNI Metro Meltdown of October 1998, we haven’t seen much common sense reality in play.
