The protesters bins in Mission District businesses, cars

The protesters bins in Mission District businesses, cars

(05-01) 13:27 PDT San Francisco – Broken glass full of a number of streets in San Francisco Mission District after protesters looted and damaged cars for more than 30 companies and at least 17 cars on Monday night.

Tuesday to clean them were police officers in the neighborhood, where a mask and dressed in black activists threw paint and bashed the front door. Some business owners in the area, said police did not do enough to prevent damage to their shops and restaurants, and one said to the officers themselves seemed to be the “Escort” vandals.

protesters were a group that marched from Dolores Park shortly after 9:00 on Tuesday after a meeting before the plan is confirmed, the general strike, police said. Travel for less than 18 Street and Valencia Street, they smashed windows and strong characters, threw paint and eggs at the building and spray-painting anarchy symbols of the hoods of parked cars.

“All I heard was” b ang, bang, bang “and some guy had a valet character, trying to break our window,” says manager Adam Koskoff Locanda restaurant in Valencia. “I did not even see the audience, and I ran out and got egged.”

The luxury and everyday vehicles along the streets of Valencia and Guerrero were damaged. Aston Martin had its windshield smashed and covered with brown Hood.

Pink and yellow barricaded marred, broken glass doors in Mission police station is 17 and Valencia streets.

“It was like the station was under siege,” said one official, who asked not be named.

Tuesday, said the Mission Station Captain Robert Moser, vandalism was “made fast” and that someone took a hammer or a club-like object the station door. He estimates that 100,150 people have participated in neighborhood rampage.

One person was arrested on suspicion of vehicle code violations and resisting arrest, Moser said. He was referred to in and out. < /P> Some business owners said that the extent of the damage should be more vandals have been arrested.

J.H. Kostelni from Farina restaurant on 18 Street, said he saw a police car in front of and behind a group of about 30 people who threw paint and eggs at their windows and toppled him off the boards.

“It looked like a police escort for them,” said Kostelni. “They did not stop them.”

Asked about the criticism, Moser said, “We wanted to make sure we had enough staff to public security and safety of our employees.”

About 15 officers in riot gear had a guard in front of the police station Monday night, when other officers moved up and down the street, documenting the damage that the cards shredded cars and telling business owners.

officers dispersed the group when it came to Valencia and Duboce streets, Moser said. He said his officers were preparing for another possible incident on Tuesday night, after the additional registration of deeds.

owner Jeremy Tooker Four Barrel coffee, dried paint on their shop windows broken glass crushed under the feet of pedestrians. He said that a friend had warned her injuries after the completion of a protester from smash the glass storefront with a crowbar – and take the hit in their hands.

One of the protesters threw a Snapple bottle full of the color of the building, said Tooker.

“It just seems like they are frustrated by their impotence at the time,” he said. “It’s like” Look at me, I’m still here, I’m still obsessed. “”

As Koskoff smoked a cigarette damaged the Aston Martin, he said that he did not understand the motives of the protesters.

“They come out on a mission where there are no traders, but many small businesses, which is what they all,” he said. “It does not make sense.”

Although the rally began in March for the company, other p rotesters tried to occupy the participants in the data. Some businessmen, but said the injury was responsible for Occupy.

“Occupy, says that it’s not them, but we would not be here if it were not for use, and now would we?” Michelle Horneff-Cohen, a real estate agent, said that next to the broken window, he shook his job Property Management Systems.

He said he was dragged out of bed to deal with injuries. Although his company has insurance, he said, it’s going to pay a large share of the cost of repair.

“I think the bull -” Horneff-Cohen said. “We’re 99 percent, and this is bull -.”

By Tuesday morning, was suspended for business owners, or to replace broken glass storefronts and had washed away the power of the eggs, paint splatters and spills. Some were preparing for what may come next year.

“We could have a place to police it,” Tooker said. “I do not want anyone to be hurt, and we can deal with broken windows, but nothing serious will happen, that we may have to close down.”

the San Francisco Bay Area News – SFGate