“I stand by my long legislative and civic record but must also take full responsibility for the tenor that I have struck in my public relationships for that, I am truly sorry," Peskin wrote in a statement.
Well Known Corner Store Owner In Lower Pac Heights Loses Eye In Stabbing
The longtime owner of a corner store on Franklin Street in San Francisco was brutally stabbed multiple times last week in an incident of random violence that followed his storefront being smashed by a car.
It s another in a seemingly endless series of disheartening and tragic stories coming out of the city in recent months, often impacting elder residents with violent assaults. 72-year-old Petros Peter Yohannes, the owner of Franklin Market at Franklin and Austin streets (between Bush and Pine), was attacked last Wednesday morning while he was at the store assessing damages from an attempted burglary the night before, in which an SUV tried to smash through the front window. As ABC 7 reports, a male suspect ran into the store asking to use the bathroom, assaulted Yohannes, and then got into a scuffle in which a weapon was pulled and Yohannes was stabbed multiple times, including in his left eye.
Day Around the Bay: Pro-Palestinian Demonstration Tries to Block Israeli Cargo Ship at Port of Oakland
A group of protesters attempted (for the second time) to block an Israeli cargo ship from unloading at the Port of Oakland Friday. With banners and Palestinian flags in tow, about 200 demonstrators gathered at one of the four marine terminals at the East Bay shipping port; the roadway is full and traffic is backed up, said Port of Oakland spokesman Robert Bernardo during the Friday morning display which eventually simmered down with no reports of arrests. [Chronicle]
SF police have arrested a suspect linked to a Polk Gulch homicide last month. SFPD announced Friday that 25-year-old Ulysses Gutierrez had been detained in relation to the fatal shooting of Robert Luis Mena Gallardo on May 8; San Francisco police are still investigating the murder. [KRON4]