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SF Homeless Shelter Employees Arrested for Hiding Shooter From Cops

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/24/sf-homeless-shelter-employees-arrested-for-hiding-shooter-from-cops-n3818318

This is the kind of crazy story that could only happen in San Francisco. It started on May 31 when a man later identified as Norris Reed III fled from police, crashed his car and wound up shooting a female officer.

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"We were alerted via an LPR hit, that a vehicle associated with a robbery that was perpetrated in East Bay came into our city and that's why we became involved," Lew said.

Officers located the vehicle near Fifth and Folsom streets, with two people inside. When officers attempted a traffic stop near Mission and First streets, the driver fled, leading officers on a pursuit through city streets, police said.

The vehicle later became disabled near Bayshore Boulevard and Jerrold Avenue. Authorities said the driver then opened fire on officers, striking one officer multiple times. Officers returned fire at the suspect vehicle.

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Anyway, up to this point it's a story that could probably happen in any big city. But here's where it gets weird. While police were busy saving Taylor's life, the suspect who fired the shots, Norris Reed, fled to a nearby homeless shelter. And there, according to police he was given help to escape by two of the shelter's staff members. Those two individuals were arrested last week.
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As you can see, the shelter is denying their employees did anything wrong, but police say they have surveillance video showing Barcenas and Porter helping Reed.

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At 12:17 am, over an hour after Reed III fled the scene, dispatch received a call stating that the suspect was inside the gate of the (Bayshore Navigation Center). Officers responded to the fenced courtyard of the navigation center and placed Reed III under arrest. During the arrest, officers seized two firearms from the suspect's waistband.

With assistance from the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, SFPD officers reviewed surveillance footage from the navigation center showing Barcenas providing Reed III with clothing to conceal his identity despite knowing that he was in possession of a firearm when he entered the navigation center.

Additionally, when officers had earlier visited the navigation center while searching for the suspect, Porter gave false statements to the police to prevent the officers from locating him.

1. Some of toughest gun laws in the US did not meaningfully hinder a felon from getting 2 handguns. Unsurprisingly.

2. If you make a cynical guess about the three accused, you would be correct, sadly, wrt the shooter and the female who lied to misdirect police pursuers.

surfered (16,095 posts)


Great bumper sticker

unblock (56,436 posts)
1. An oldie but a goodie

OldBaldy1701E (12,166 posts)
2. That is a good bumper sticker.
Unforntuately, there are plenty of folks out there who are very happy to go in reverse.

They are hoping for it, in fact.

angrychair (12,906 posts)
4. Well
Forward may be a little hyperbolic. How about "D" is for "incremental and often meaningless change that our corporate donors approve of" and "R" is for "Fascism"
Probably a little wordy for a bumper sticker.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221460949

More stupid

North Carolina doctor accused of shooting 2 sisters in alleged interstate road rage attack
https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-doctor-accused-shooting-2-sisters-alleged-interstate-road-rage-attack

A North Carolina doctor was arrested Aug. 22 after he allegedly fired into a Jeep during an interstate road rage incident, wounding two sisters, ages 12 and 20, according to Virginia State Police.

Dr. Richard Thomas Arriviello, 61, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was driving north on Interstate 77 in his Mercedes-Benz around 8:50 a.m. when gunfire erupted about three miles north of the North Carolina-Virginia state line.

State police said in a press release that Arriviello fired into the moving Jeep, striking both sisters in the legs.

Doctor, doctor, gimme the news
I got a bad case of road rage
No pill's gonna cure my ill
I've got a bad case of road rage

The doctor got a bad case of road rage.

1. IMO, a mole would try to maintain a very unexceptional profile - not too visible, posts or Reports, and not too invisible. So if there are Frequent-Reporters on DU, those members probably are not moles or trolls.

2. Historically - the Reign of Terror, Hitler's SA purge, Stalin's purge of "Old Bolsheviks" - lefties turn on each other in purity and power witch hunts. If there are Frequent-Reporters on DU, ordinary DU-folk should fear Proggier-Than-Thou witch hunts. Don't be the first to stop clapping or clap too quietly, Comrade.

This does, on the other hand, give one some interesting ideas of how one might 'pitch in and help' over there.

 Hypothetically, of course. 

So if there are Frequent-Reporters on DU, those members probably are not moles or trolls.

I agree. I imagine them being like that HOA member who constantly checks neighborhood yards for shrubbery violations.