The wild scene was captured on video by a man identified as J. Terrell, who was on an evening stroll in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood. “On my evening walk. SOMA is not safe. It just happened,” he wrote in part. “I love the smell of crack and poop. Beautiful San Francisco,” he tweeted. The attached video shows two homeless men – one shirtless – on the ground fighting as a third man is seen hitting the shirtless addict with a broom as bystanders stand around watching the commotion unfazed by the chaotic event. The viral video has now garnered more than 2.4 million views. During the anarchy, a dog barks incessantly at the pair wrestling on the ground as another person is seen grabbing a pair of trainers and putting them in a plastic bag before walking away. “Hey cops. Cops,” someone is heard shouting in the background. The frenzy was interrupted when a man on an electric scooter came to race leading up to the pandemonium as the fights ended. Each of the fighting men get back to their feet and act as if nothing happened moments before. A mob of homeless drug addicts can be seen brawling on a San Francisco street amid trash and squalid conditions as city officials ask for blue-sky “ideas” to fix the street drug problem The video shows two homeless men – one shirtless – on the ground fighting as a third appears to hit the shirtless addict with a broom as bystanders stand around watching the noise undeterred by the chaotic event. London Breed, mayor of San Francisco, in an interview with a reporter in her office at City Hall on Thursday, February 24, 2022 in San Francisco, California. Mayor Breed is the 45th mayor of the City and County of San Francisco Allen also called former district superintendent Matt Haney. “I wrote to your office and you took no action,” he wrote. ‘Why??? ‘Is [not] is it worth your time?’ San Francisco officials on Tuesday unveiled what they said was a deliberately “soft touch” plan to deal with the city’s relentless drug crisis – insisting that under their plan “no one will go to jail” but remaining vague about how it will end the problem. With nearly 1,700 fatal overdoses since the beginning of 2020, San Francisco’s drug crisis has resulted in nearly twice as many deaths as the COVID-19 pandemic. In June, the city’s mayor, London Breed, announced that the notorious taxpayer-funded flea market would close at the end of the year. However, Tuesday’s plan, dubbed “San Francisco Recovers,” appeared to be a return to the flea market system. Their plan promoted “supervised consumption sites where drug users can safely use substances under medical supervision to prevent accidental overdose deaths.” They presented a number of other demands for crisis management, but instead of mapping out a way to achieve them, they asked the 21 municipal departments and six municipal commissions to come up with ideas for them within 90 days. Matt Dorsey, a superintendent, said the targets were intentionally a “soft touch.” A homeless man injects fentanyl into his friend’s armpit due to a lack of usable veins as people walk past San Francisco City Hall on Saturday A homeless man injects fentanyl into his arm in San Francisco’s Tenderloin Business owners in San Francisco’s Castro District are calling on city leaders to provide more beds for the homeless community and are threatening civil disobedience, including withholding taxes, if the city doesn’t address the growing issues in front of their storefronts They include electronically tagging users and requiring police to track them down and confiscate their drugs if they wander into known drug-trafficking areas. San Francisco supervisors want job placement and training instead of jail time for those who agree to stop dealing drugs and “right to recovery” zones near treatment centers, with zero tolerance for possession or dealing. In addition, they asked for supervised drug consumption areas. “This is a way that no one is going to go to jail, but we’re doing an effective job of disrupting the drug market and the drug scenes,” Dorsey said, according to The San Francisco Standard. Tenderloin Supervisor Dean Preston has requested a hearing on dealing with drug overdose deaths to be held on September 29th. “We are determined to ensure that health professionals, not politicians, lead the creation and implementation of a long-term overdose prevention plan,” Preston said. Their outline came three months after the ongoing program, known as the Linkage Center, was denied further funding. A homeless drug addict shows bruises and scars on his swollen legs from drug use in San Francisco’s Tenderloin San Francisco has become a Wild West of drug users with syringes littering the sidewalks and drug dealers, selling heroin or the deadly opioid fentanyl, easily recognizable dressed in black with matching backpacks. Above: a person in a wheelchair shoots, just outside the Linkage Center on January 22 A homeless drug addict is lost in the street as people walk past City Hall in San Francisco’s Tenderloin A homeless drug addict is lost on the street in the Tenderloin area of ​​San Francisco, California Homeless drug addicts lay out used clothes for sale to try to make money in front of closed businesses in the Tenderloin District on Friday It emerged in June that the facility was said to have cost $19 million in taxpayer cash, treated just one in 1,000 users and failed to reduce fatal overdose numbers. The Linkage Center in the Tenderloin, in the heart of downtown San Francisco, opened in January and was intended to help the city’s large homeless and drug-addicted population find help. But critics say the site, which was being rented for $75,000 a month, has failed to curb the problem in the crime-plagued city, which recently recalled vigilante DA Chesa Boudin amid a spike in crimes attributed to the sharp decline in the quality of the locals. of life. They note that only 0.1 percent of those using the site were directed to treatment in the first five months, despite an estimated $19 million spent on operating costs. Between January and April, just 18 of the 23,367 drug users who visited the site were referred for treatment.
In addition, the rate of fatal overdoses has not declined in any meaningful way: In January, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner reported 49 deaths, and last month there were 45. And the center quietly went on to drop the word “connection” from its title because so few of the drug users it visited were connected to any meaningful form of help.