From NBC News: Cash App founder Bob Lee reportedly killed in San Francisco stabbing, sources say
A man who was fatally stabbed early Tuesday near downtown San Francisco was tech executive Bob Lee, the founder of Cash App and former chief technology officer of Square, sources told NBC Bay Area.
The San Francisco Police Department said officers had responded to a report of a stabbing at around 2:35 a.m. Tuesday. They found a 43-year-old man suffering from apparent stab wounds, police said.
The man was transported to a local hospital in life-threatening condition and later died, police said.
Police did not name the man, but sources identified Lee, who was serving as the chief chief product officer of MobileCoin, as the victim to NBC Bay Area.
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As Charlie Kirk pointed out, the occasional stabbing death is the price we pay for enjoying Constitutional rights.
Besides, there’s really nothing we can do about it. Maybe people should walk around with machetes for self defense.Report
It’s not representative and, anyway, it’s the result of a trade-off.Report
The police commissioner:
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https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-killing-arrest-made-san-francisco/
Honestly, I didn’t expect this either.Report
I had seen a handful of vaguely unseemly “what was he doing in that part of town at 2AM?” questions being asked… and, yeah, this would explain it.
What a mess.Report
Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech executive Bob Lee, following an operation undertaken outside the city’s borders. The alleged killer also works in tech and is a man Lee purportedly knew.
This is what we should expect. Not just this killing, but almost all killings, are between people who know each other and have some sort of history.
An unprovoked killing by a random stranger is almost freakishly unusual.Report
To be honest, I hadn’t paid much attention to this and the impression I got from the few stories I saw was that they had some reason to think it was a random stranger killing. But, I also didn’t really say anything about it, because I hadn’t even read the story linked above. I have an old friend who’s lived in SF since high school, but otherwise it’s another world.Report
I always push back on the “Urban Crime!!1! stories because they are almost always myth and agenda-grinding.
It isn’t just that the most dangerous zip codes are in places most of us have never heard of (Howdy Bessemer, Alabama!), its that “dangerous” doesn’t even mean what we think it does.Report
but people want to own the libz!!Report
There was an episode of Ray Donovan where his adolescent son is acting out and Ray wanted to teach him a lesson scare him straight.
So he drives to a sketchy section of LA and tells him to get out, then drives off.
Immediately a bunch scary thugs start to swarm around the kid like alligators on a wildebeest fording a river.
I burst out laughing because that scene was shot on 6th St Skid Row only a few blocks from my building and I recognized it because I routinely walk that way on my way to an art store.
Thing is, the “Scawwy looking” homeless people there are actually harmless and more likely to be the victims of mugging than perps.
But for the screenwriters and showrunners who live out in the Valley their entire frame of reference for “urban area” is stuck in a 70s flick like The Warriors or maybe Hill Street Blues.
Which touches on the other point about “Liberal” cities. A big percentage of people who vote Democrat aren’t exactly liberal and if you touch their home equity they will go full metal jackboot.Report