With the wheelchair? despite our best efforts, we simply can t find him. so i would really love to see corey get well, to not have to worry every single day that it s going to be his last day. corey is not blameless, my son makes the choices that he does that got him into this position, and he ll be the first to tell you that he made this mistake, so while he has a part to do with it, i think the dealers, i think chesa boudin, i think mayor london breed, i think they all have a hand in it not going well. the story of san francisco is, in many ways, mirrored in cities across america. last year, drug overdose deaths topped 100,000 for the first time, and many democrats disagree on what to do. there is a big spectrum of views represented under the tent of the democratic party and we see some of those disputes play out at
Just after high school, he met his first girlfriend. she was a really sweet girl, but she had addiction issues. went downhill from there. corey has been addicted to drugs for ten years. jacqui isn t in touch with him regularly. when i was scrolling through facebook one day, there was a post and it was someone passed out with a pipe next to them, and i looked closely, thinking this person looked familiar. i started reading the comments, and people were saying horrible things about this passed out addict, and i realised it was my son. i tried to, for a couple of hours, just ignore it, and itjust really bothered me, so i went back on there and i said, this is my son. he is notjust a bum on the street. he has a family that loves him. and he actually has
These are two democrats, remember. they re supposed to be on the same team. and while the two politicians disagree, jacqui worries that time is running out for her son, corey. i know that he s overdosed before, and been revived with narcan, sojust one little mistake. jacqui hasn t seen or heard from corey in two months. she s come to the tenderloin to try and find him. they ve been moving the dealers around, so those are dealers over there. i don t see him over there. let s go this way. i m looking for my son today, have you happened to have seen him? he looks familiar. has he been out here for a while? yes, he has been. everyone says that he has really piercing blue eyes, that s the way that you can
To see corey get well, to not have to worry every single day that it s going to be his last day. corey is not blameless, my son makes the choices that he does that got him into this position, and he ll be the first to tell you that he made this mistake, so while he has a part to do with it, i think the dealers, i think chesa boudin, i think mayor london breed, i think they all have a hand in it not going well. the story of san francisco is, in many ways, mirrored in cities across america. last year, drug overdose deaths topped 100,000 for the first time, and many democrats disagree on what to do. there is a big spectrum of views represented under the tent of the democratic party and we see some of those disputes play out at the local level as well. there is this assumption that
Do you want to go down here? yeah. hi, how are you? i m good. i m looking for my son, wondering if you might have seen him around. i don t know. we re not having much luck but then, a glimmer of hope. i m looking for my son who s out here, his name s corey. when s the last time you saw him? yesterday. did you see him yesterday? was he here in san francisco? he was here. can you just tell him his mum is out here looking for him is everything 0k? everything s 0k, ijust really miss him. he has always been that way. with the wheelchair? despite our best efforts, we simply can t find him. so i would really love