Newsom Defends San Francisco Homeless Sweep Before International Summit | Eastern North Carolina Now

Recent comments from California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom surfaced online showing him defending San Francisco for clearing out areas of the city occupied by homeless camps and public drug markets before world leaders

ENCNow
    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Brandon Drey.

    Recent comments from California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom surfaced online showing him defending San Francisco for clearing out areas of the city occupied by homeless camps and public drug markets before world leaders - including China's President Xi Jinping - arrived for an international economic summit this week.

    "Anytime you put on an event - by definition - you know you have people over at your house, you're gonna clean up the house," Newsom told reporters during the 'Clean California' event in San Francisco on November 9.

    APEC, known as the "Super Bowl of World Economies," is holding its 2023 leaders meeting in San Francisco between November 11 and 17 this year. The summit includes leaders of 21 countries and regions, including President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and top CEOS amid tens of thousands of other attendees.

    "21 world leaders ... you got tens of thousands of people coming from all around the globe," he added. "What an opportunity to showcase the world's most extraordinary place - San Francisco."

HbAD0

    San Francisco has been in the throes of a homelessness and drug crisis that has come with rampant crime for years now while the city consistently struggles to make a dent in the humanitarian crisis unfolding daily on the streets.

    Homelessness has only gotten worse since before the pandemic. About 38,000 people are homeless in the Bay Area on a given night - that's up 35% since 2019. More than 7,000 people are homeless in San Francisco itself, and the city's crime rate and open-air drug use have caused businesses to flee San Francisco's downtown.

    Although overall crime slightly dropped this year, certain types of violent crime like murder, robberies, and car theft have increased, according to police data reported by The Daily Wire in September.

    According to a Gallup poll, nearly half of Americans - 48% -now view San Francisco as unsafe, up from just 30% in 2006.

    But despite those figures, San Francisco became the host city for APEC 2023, which the city's website described as "the most significant event with world leaders in San Francisco in recent history."

    The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the city's effort to clear the encampments is an attempt to avoid a repeat of 2016, when it hosted Superbowl 50 at Levi's Stadium in the San Francisco Bay Area. Aside from airing the game, the outlet noted that TV broadcasts had focused on the city's homeless crisis along Division Street, which presented "a major civic black eye" for the Bay Area.

    Internal emails obtained by The Chronicle show city officials were "concerned about historical encampments that are close to priority areas" and needed to format a plan to "stay on top of the growing encampments."

    Several videos circulating on social media appear to show various sidewalks cleared of homeless encampments and individuals, with some portions blocked off with barricades or covered with brand-new planters where tents had once stood.

    According to local media, a federal injunction requires the city to provide adequate shelter for homeless individuals after removing their tents from public areas. Although the city did not set up new shelters specifically for individuals impacted by the international summit, it opened a 30-spot overnight winter shelter and has been working on adding 300 beds to some of the existing shelters.

HbAD1

    Newsom also said last week that "it's true" that city officials removed homeless encampments from sidewalks because of the international summit.

    "I know folks are saying, 'Oh, they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming to town,'" California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday, as reported by Fox News. "That's true because it's true - but it's also true for months and months and months before APEC, we've been having conversations."

    Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.

poll#201
Considering what real news is available for all to witness, and in great specificity, should one pursue what is true outside of the channeled realm of the corrupt corporate /legacy media, and: Is Institutionalized Corruption real, and is it a hindrance to sustaining our Constitutional Republic now, and for future generations of American citizens?
  Yes
  No
  Not sure
454 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?


poll#164
It has been far too many years since the Woke theology interlaced its canons within the fabric of the Indoctrination Realm, so it is nigh time to ask: Does this Representative Republic continue, as a functioning society of a self-governed people, by contending with the unusual, self absorbed dictates of the Woke, and their vast array of Victimhood scenarios?
  Yes, the Religion of Woke must continue; there are so many groups of underprivileged, underserved, a direct result of unrelenting Inequity; they deserve everything.
  No; the Woke fools must be toppled from their self-anointed pedestal; a functioning society of a good Constitutional people cannot withstand this level of "existential" favoritism as it exists now.
  I just observe; with this thoughtful observation: What will happen "when the Vikings are breeching our walls;" how do the Woke react?
846 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

Go Back
HbAD2

 
Back to Top