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Did Presence of Citizen Journalist prevent a shooting?
On Sunday at approx. 11a.m. a man climbed onto the statue that sits at the beginning of Dolores Street in San Francisco. There are pictures and video from the scene. Please take notice, no bystanders taunted the man, San Francisco police did not pull out their weapons, and emergency personnel provided him with 3 easy escape routes.
On Sunday at approx. 11a.m. a m an climbed onto the Spanish American War Memorial statue on Dolores Street near Market Street in San Francisco. Minutes later emergency personnel arrived on scene. Ladders were put-up and firefighters were ready to rescue him from the statue. But the person did not want to be rescued, so eventually the San Francisco "special hostage negotiation team" were called in to help and coax him down. He stayed up there until 2:30pm. The whole time I was on scene, no guns were ever displayed, no non-lethal weapons were ready, and no bean bag carrying guns were to be seen. The man came down on his own volition.
I arrived 10 minutes after hearing the chatter on the police scanner, and left when he came down. I did not get footage of him coming down because the camera battery died, but he was taken into custody gently. Other news entities reported the man was high on meth.
So did the presence of a photographer or citizen journalist make a difference in how this alleged erratic man was handled by the police?
Because historically scenes like that don't end well for the perpetrator.
I arrived 10 minutes after hearing the chatter on the police scanner, and left when he came down. I did not get footage of him coming down because the camera battery died, but he was taken into custody gently. Other news entities reported the man was high on meth.
So did the presence of a photographer or citizen journalist make a difference in how this alleged erratic man was handled by the police?
Because historically scenes like that don't end well for the perpetrator.
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How did this end well? And why would they want to violently take him down of the statue? And everyone there was taking photographs and video and tweeting about it and that would have prevented a shooting more so than a citizen jounalist. why would they have used shooting anyway? the kid would have been taken to general hospital and admitting would have in coded a 5150. for that reason and because of laura's law starting in january there is a lot of cautionary activity when trying to get help to someone in the condition that this kid was in and what you think was prevented because of the presence of a citizen journalist is a bit narcissistic.
more like it was a white person
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