Comments on: You’re having dinner at Locanda and all of a sudden a gang of thugs starts trying to smash the restaurant’s windows in with a big piece of metal http://www.missionmission.org/2012/05/01/youre-having-dinner-at-locanda-and-all-of-a-sudden-a-gang-of-thugs-starts-trying-to-smash-the-restaurants-windows-in-with-a-big-piece-of-metal/ Saluting San Francisco's Mission District Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Village Idiot http://www.missionmission.org/2012/05/01/youre-having-dinner-at-locanda-and-all-of-a-sudden-a-gang-of-thugs-starts-trying-to-smash-the-restaurants-windows-in-with-a-big-piece-of-metal/#comment-58895 Village Idiot Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:35:34 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=38663#comment-58895 [posted from a public access library computer]

– Yes?

]]> By: Mission Native http://www.missionmission.org/2012/05/01/youre-having-dinner-at-locanda-and-all-of-a-sudden-a-gang-of-thugs-starts-trying-to-smash-the-restaurants-windows-in-with-a-big-piece-of-metal/#comment-58882 Mission Native Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:41:11 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=38663#comment-58882 “DIY local favorites” Oh, poor “successful but independent, DIY local favorites…”
There’s a lot of fucking White Whine going on with you guys. Really, those “DIY local favorites” are the reason the Mission has been so horribly gentrified. All you yuppie types decided it’d be cool to live in the then “urban” and “gritty” Mission but didn’t want to see anyone in “your neighborhood” (no. fuck you. my neighborhood) that scared you so you forced the poor people out. I am tired of you goddamn hipsters thinking that you somehow own the Mission when all you’ve done is push out working class Black and Latinos, forcing them to move to more dangerous areas. This is largely BECAUSE of these businesses you guys are exalting. Very few of them are owned by the type of Black and Latino families that used to live here. They’re almost all owned by upper class white people. Honestly half the time I want to throw bricks through the windows of most Valencia street businesses.

ESPECIALLY FUCKING FOURBARREL

Yuppie go home. Get out of mine.

]]> By: C. http://www.missionmission.org/2012/05/01/youre-having-dinner-at-locanda-and-all-of-a-sudden-a-gang-of-thugs-starts-trying-to-smash-the-restaurants-windows-in-with-a-big-piece-of-metal/#comment-52812 C. Tue, 01 May 2012 15:02:07 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=38663#comment-52812 This was mos def the FuckUPie movement. They want u pie, and they will break u windoze ’til they get it.
I’m actually quite upset by and concerned for not only Locanda and Wo Hing, but especially the many local businesses – including small, individual-owner operations such as Tradesmen Furniture, which had its front window totally smashed – that were damaged. Also, Four Barrel and other successful but independent, DIY local favorites…
I think it’s obvious that this is just perhaps fairly concerned but eventually misguided political thoughts being used an excuse for violence, but it seems difficult to say what to do to stop it, or to separate it from more legitimate movements and expressions.
However, I’m all for arresting and prosecuting anyone at all involved in such violence.
It seems the police, however, were just guarding their own castle, which, given that they seemed to have been completely surprised by this, and so understaffed, may not have been such a bad choice.

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