KitKat’s Untimely Death vs San Francisco’s 500 Overdoses Citywide

In San Francisco’s Mission District, a tabby cat named KitKat met its demise last week, struck by a Waymo autonomous vehicle pulling away from a curb. Autonomous vehicles aren’t flawless; their sensors and algorithms could (rarely) falter in the chaos of dense urban life. While we demand rigorous scrutiny and improvement—lives, even furry ones, are precious.

The incident, captured in eyewitness accounts and a frantic 311 call, has sparked outpourings of grief and legislator fury. Candles flicker at a sidewalk shrine outside Randa’s Market, where KitKat once held court as the “Mayor of 16th Street.” Heartbreaking, no doubt.

Do not believe a word that Waymo says about the death of KitKat unless they release the video. Waymo says it was an unavoidable accident because KitKat jumped in front of the car. But two witnesses say she was strolling casually when a Waymo swerved, smashing her lower back and… pic.twitter.com/DfTLmGqBlp

— Wayne Hsiung (@waynehhsiung) November 7, 2025

But here’s the scorching truth San Francisco’s progressive outrage machine refuses to face: Human deaths eclipse cats by an infinite chasm.

While some mourn KitKat with viral memes and even crypto tributes like the $KIKAT token, 47 souls in San Francisco’s District 9 (most of The Mission District) have perished from drug overdoses in 2025 alone—a grim toll of fentanyl-fueled despair, one every five or six days in a neighborhood that first-term Board of Supervisors member Jackie Fielder swore to protect. City-wide, we have hit 500 ODs to date.

These overdoses aren’t mere abstract statistics; they’re sons, daughters, neighbors—people poisoned by a crisis San Francisco has botched for years. Citywide, overdoses remain a humanitarian disaster, despite Naloxone (Narcan) handouts and half-hearted treatment beds. San Francisco’s notorious “progressive” paradise is a graveyard for the addicted, with leaders like Fielder exploit KitKat while the human vulnerable die.

Never a rally or presser for the HUMAN BEINGS dead from overdose in your district @JackieFielder_

Your outrage is grossly misplaced

Say THEIR names, Jackie 👇 https://t.co/IAfUnOE1lq pic.twitter.com/w8yPv99V6W

— Gina_Mothers Against Drug Addiction & Deaths (@Gina_McDee) November 7, 2025

Where’s the rally, the vigil for them?

The aggressive trafficking busts that treat these deaths like the homicides they are?

The fixation on KitKat isn’t just tone-deaf; it’s a grotesque deflection by our City Hall officials from human carnage. Waymo’s record? A handful of reported pet strikes amid billions of miles logged, with zero human fatalities in San Francisco operations. Autonomous Vehicles (AV’s) aren’t angels and banning them won’t resurrect KitKat.

Enter Jackie Fielder, District 9’s self-anointed crusader, whose “Justice for KitKat” rally on November 4 reeks of malicious exploitation. How “progressive”. Flanked by Teamsters union Local 665 members and small-business virtue-signalers, she bleated, “We are absolutely coming for your bottom dollar,” vowing a city legislature’s resolution to hand counties veto power over AVs like Waymo—code for a local ban on innovation that might actually save lives. This isn’t leadership; it’s cynical theater, a progressive power grab dressed in cat memes to dodge her district’s – and our city’s- glaringly obvious overdose apocalypse.

After beloved neighborhood cat KitKat was killed by a Waymo, San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder announced a plan to ask the state to allow voters in each county to decide how they want autonomous vehicles to operate in their communities. https://t.co/e0B4XJLfo5 pic.twitter.com/e7LBNKdZYS

— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) November 4, 2025

Fielder, who champions decriminalization fantasies while bodies pile up, has poured her fury into tech scapegoating instead of the fentanyl drowning her constituents. Her rally for KitKat? A photo-op circus, shunning the reality of the 47 overdose ghosts haunting the Mission’s alleys. She’s not fighting for equity; she’s farming outrage for votes, weaponizing a pet’s tragedy to mask her inaction on the human one.

Autonomous vehicles need tweaks and fixes. But slamming the brakes on transportation progress while canceling the specter of overdose deaths? That’s not compassion, Ms Fielder; it’s your complicity, and your colleagues’, in a slow-motion slaughter.