"San Francisco's political identity has been shaped by brutal, ideologically motivated crimes. In 1978, Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were gunned down by their own Board of Supervisors colleague. In 1975, a shooter nearly assassinated President Gerald Ford on Powell Street. In 2022, Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi, was attacked in his home by a conspiracy theorist wielding a hammer."
"The day after Kirk's assassination, I attended a rally in support of Mayor Daniel Lurie's Family Zoning Plan. Opponents of the proposal aggressively encircled participants in an apparent intimidation attempt. The mayor pleaded with the growing mob to engage with civility. Security and police hovered nearby, looking tense, which added to my own anxiety and fear."
"Remember, San Francisco's political identity has also been shaped by generations of activists who were who killed nobody, but who created a climate of acceptance by fighting for LGBTQ+ rights, civil rights, free speech, environmental consciousness, and so many other causes. Sometimes, it got a little rough: The Compton's Cafeteria uprising wasn't "civil." Neither was the response to Dan White's lenient sentence for killing Milk and Moscone."
San Francisco experienced the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Moscone in 1978, a near-assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford in 1975, and the 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi. Those events are cited alongside a recent rally supporting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan where opponents encircled participants, creating an atmosphere of intimidation. A mayoral plea for civility and visible security presence increased anxiety for attendees. The two kinds of events differ significantly in scale and lethality. San Francisco also has a long history of nonlethal activism that advanced LGBTQ+ rights, civil rights, free speech, and environmental awareness. Threats or killings for political beliefs are unacceptable.
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