Desperate San Francisco Residents in ‘Drug-Ridden Hellhole’ Sue Democrat Leaders

Tenderloin residents sue SF in effort to stop distribution of harm reduction kits, a headline at ABC7 says about San Francisco Democrats assisting homeless drug addict vagrants living on the city streets with free drug paraphernalia.

The Tenderloin district is one of San Francisco’s poorest neighborhoods, and has the highest density of children The Times reports.

More accurately is the DailyMail.com headline: Residents of US city that became drug-ridden hellhole SUE Dem leaders. “A group of fed-up residents are suing a Democrat-run city for allegedly turning their neighborhood into a drug-ridden hellhole.”

The San Francisco Department of Public Health has been distributing needles, pipes, straws and foils to drug addicts as part of its “harm-reduction” strategy.

“Harm-reduction” they call it, when what they are doing is furthering the drug addiction of the homeless vagrants, or promoting “an all-encompassing support system for drug addicts,” as one former addict called it.

The lawsuit claimed the City of San Francisco, “effectively herds fentanyl users into the Tenderloin … with some organizations going so far as to deliver drug kits to their sidewalk encampments.”

The Times reports:

“A group of residents and business owners in San Francisco are suing the city, claiming its permissive drug policies have destroyed their neighbourhood.

The lawsuit claims that the city ‘effectively herds fentanyl users into the Tenderloin … with some organizations going so far as to deliver drug kits to their sidewalk encampments.’ The claimants are demanding that a court grant a preliminary injunction to end the practice.”

“At the Phoenix Hotel, one of the businesses involved in the suit, ‘people who appear to be gang members now openly sell fentanyl and other potent drugs,’ per the filing,” the Daily Mail reported. Worse yet, “The iconic hotel recently announced its decision to close, citing the untenable conditions of the neighborhood as one of the reasons why.”

The Times continues:

One of the claimants, “Jane Roe”, an immigrant housekeeper and mother of two, testified that “she encounters drug dealers, users openly injecting or smoking narcotics and people lying on the street who appear unconscious or dead”. She and her family were forced to step over syringes and human faeces littering the pavements, while “unleashed dogs” bark and growl at them, she said.

Roe claimed that users had “threatened her with knives and hammers”. She said they had started bonfires on the street that aggravated her daughter’s asthma, then “threatened to cut her throat” when she asked them to stop.

Daniel Lurie, San Francisco’s mayor, has taken a more hardline stance, implementing a rule in April that addicts can no longer receive free drug paraphernalia outdoors or without counseling.

That doesn’t sound “hardline,” given that counseling in exchange for drug paraphernalia won’t solve anything. Drug addicts will say and do anything for their habit.

“The claimants say they are not looking for a payout, but want a preliminary injunction that bars the city from distributing drug kits. David Chiu, the city attorney, is fighting to allow the practice to continue.”