Democratic Mayor London Breed recently took issue with the characterization of her city as a dangerous cesspool that is fast driving away business, stating, “San Francisco is a major city and it has challenges.”
Among the leftist-controlled city’s latest challenges is a roving gang of baseball bat-wielding kids that targets mothers and nannies trying to pick up children from school.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that a group of adolescents is likely responsible for the attacks on at least 11 women in the city’s Noe Valley, also called “stroller valley” on account of the preponderance of young families still living there.
Thomas Harvey, captain of the San Francisco Police Department’s Mission Station, indicated that the ski mask-clad suspects smashed and robbed their victims in broad daylight then used a stolen car as a getaway vehicle.
A woman who identified herself only as CW told the Telegraph that police — whose force is greatly understaffed — appeared to have “zero interest” in investigating her attack. She had been thrown to the ground and robbed while attempting to pick up her daughter from the nursery.
One juvenile male was detained Thursday, though the others remain at large.
Rafael Mandelman, a Democratic member of the city’s governing San Francisco Board of Supervisors, attributed the trend of children “doing these really awful things” in part to kids’ removal from schools during the pandemic, which teachers’ unions pushed for.
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