Day Around the Bay: Salesforce’s Marc Benioff Wants to Bring National Guard to SF, ‘Re-Fund’ SFPD

Local:

• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff thinks Trump should send the National Guard to combat crime in San Francisco. He also thinks SF should “re-fund” the police force, as if it were ever defunded. [Chronicle]
• Luigi Aprea Elementary School in Gilroy had a power outage Thursday due to copper wire theft, the second such incident at a Gilroy elementary school in a month. A bill is currently on Governor Newsom’s desk that would create tighter regulations and deter the sale of stolen metal in California. [KGO]

• Officials from the South Lake Tahoe church where Mayor Tamara Wallace publicly admitted to stealing funds say that they caught her in the act, and she stole $300,000. The church is still recovering from a fire that caused around $50,000 in damages about five years ago. [Chronicle]
• The crowd was sparse at Fleet Week Friday without the Blue Angels or any other presence from the US military due to the federal government shutdown. [NBC Bay Area]
• San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s office informed the American Indian Cultural Center that the city is ending its 20-year collaboration hosting the annual Native American Heritage Night in favor of a different, unnamed partner. [Mission Local]

National:

• A huge blast at a Tennessee explosives manufacturing plant has killed multiple people, and 19 are missing. Four to five people were brought to the hospital, according to the sheriff. [ABC News]

• A cleverly composed photo by photojournalist Jim Watson at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting makes Trump look like he has devil horns. [Huffington Post]

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Portland protesters are driving home the “boiling frog” analogy with these brilliant frog costumes amid ICE’s ongoing invasion of the city.

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