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Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez
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Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez
@FitzTheReporter
#SF raised. SF Standard politics journo. Reporting the hell out of my dear, foggy City.
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- BREAKING: Christopher Columbus statue at San Francisco's Coit Tower taken down early this morning. This is ahead of a planned protest that planned to throw it into the bay.
- UPDATE: I asked @RecParkSF General Manager Phil Ginsburg if his staff would take down the gingerbread monolith at Corona Heights Park. Ginsburg's answer: "We will leave it up until the cookie crumbles."
- A homeless person's tent was in a parking space, which this driver ran over, then parked on.
- Bay Area anti-gentrification activists now going, "Hmmmm...."A tech CEO's #Tesla has been broken into 4 times in 18 months at the same city parking lot, and he's so frustrated with the city's response, he's thinking of relocating his software company. nbcbay.com/KHASBXq
- UPDATE: Parent groups are crying "hypocrisy" after a video shows the president of the Berkeley teachers union dropping off his daughter at an in-person preschool. The union has pushed for in-person learning to return once vaccination is widespread.
- Panorama of #icantbreathe protest stopping San Francisco traffic, as they chant "Black lives matter!"
- Replying to @FitzTheReporterUPDATE: SFPD BAYVIEW OFFICERS FOUND HIS KIDS. STILL NEED UPDATE ON THEIR CONDITION, BUT TENTATIVELY, SFPD SAID "THEYRE OK" STILL NEED TO CONFIRM CONDITION. BUT THEYRE FOUND. THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR THE SIGNAL BOOSY. SO MANY CALLED IN SIGHTINGS. THE BAY AREA SHOWED UP TONIGHT.
- UPDATE: Brianna Noble just launched a GoFundMe for horseback riding for underprivileged youth. "Horseback riding's phenomenal motivational and therapeutic qualities are often out of reach. At Humble, we are removing these barriers." gofundme.com/f/nxdf8
- Yes, things are smoky, and pandemic-y, and awful. But I'd still like to share some good news with you ... I'm engaged! Meet my fiancée, Anna. I proposed on a cliff just above the Echo Lakes last weekend, she said yes, and then we booked it outta there to beat the smoke.
- I've been tear gassed at every Oakland protest I've ever covered, and hit with a baton at one. I'm not advocating for anything, but seeing the disparity in enforcement is ... revealing.Protesters have breached the Capitol. They’re outside the Senate chamber
- BREAKING: #Oakland police started firing flash bangs projectiles thrown from crowd crowd is running #GeorgeFloydprotest
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