Turf battles between a pair of tent encampments near Franklin and McAllister Streets heated up this week, and Friday morning a contingent of San Francisco Sheriffs and SFPD arrived.
The gentleman on the sidewalk above had spent most of the previous day threatening and screaming at an adjoining group while brandishing a golf club and heavy-duty wire cable. After holding him for 20 minutes Friday morning while running an identity check, the officers eventually let him go.
What actually went down is a complete mystery, but only reinforces an inclination to stay at home these days.
The body needs exercise, however, so we went for a short walk in the Hayes Valley neighborhood later in the afternoon...
...admiring once again
Shawn Bullen's 2016 bee mural on Ivy Street.
At Patricia's Green on Hayes Street, a controversial tree clearing project has involved chopping down ficus and palm trees (
click here for a Hoodline article by Teresa Hammerl).
One of those palm stumps has become a painted plinth for an elephant sculpture...
...whose tusks have been chopped off, mirroring its truncated pedestal.
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