Protests are taking place in several Northern California cities as part of the “No Kings” movement on Saturday.
The rallies, similar to the ones in June, are to protest against President Trump, his administration and policies, organizers say.
“I hear very few people are going to be there, by the way,” Mr. Trump said, in response to the protests. “But they have their day coming up, and they want to have their day in the sun.”
Back in June, Mr. Trump also commented on the protests.
“I don’t feel like a king. I have to go through hell to get stuff approved,” said Mr. Trump. “A king would say, ‘I’m not going to get this … he wouldn’t have to call up [House Speaker] Mike Johnson and [Senate Majority Leader John] Thune and say, ‘Fellas, you’ve got to pull this off’ and after years we get it done. No, no, we’re not a king, we’re not a king at all.”
In San Francisco, people were taking part in a planned art demonstration at Ocean Beach on Saturday morning. Demonstrators spelled out “No Kings” and “Yes on 50.” Proposition 50 would replace California’s current congressional districts map to be more favorable for Democrats during the 2026 midterm elections.
People gathered in Ocean Beach for the “No Kings” protest and in support of Prop 50.
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Thousands gathered later in the day near the Embarcadero, across from the Ferry Building, and they will begin to march down Market Street toward Civic Center Plaza at 2 p.m. A rally will then take place at the plaza.
Thousands of people gathered at the Embarcadero in San Francisco for a “No Kings” protest and march.
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One protester at the Embarcadero told CBS News Bay Area they were there for education, the environment and immigration.
Sacramento
A protest near the Capitol was held as part of the “No Kings” protests. Police said part of the area was closed to traffic as crowds gathered for the demonstration.
Around 12:30 p.m., protesters began marching in the streets of downtown Sacramento.
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Protesters in Oakland were marching in the city’s streets, chanting, “whose streets? Our Streets.” Part of the route led marchers down 13th Street, past the Alameda County Courthouse, and onto Lake Merritt Boulevard.
Protesters marched past the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland on Saturday.
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They then gathered at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater for a rally. Organizers said they estimate around 10,000 people gathered for the march and protest, which they said is more than the demonstration in June.
Mayor Barbara Lee and Rep. Lateefah Simon were also present and spoke at the rally.
Protesters gathered at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater on Saturday during the “No Kings” demonstrations.
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San Jose
St. James Park in San Jose saw hundreds go to the park to rally for the “No Kings” protests.
There was a large gathering in San Jose for the “No Kings” movement on Saturday.
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Roseville
Hundreds of people gathered in Roseville at the Galleria for the protest. People were lining Roseville Parkway by 10:30 a.m., and hundreds more were expected to gather.
People gathered near the Roseville Galleria as part of the “No Kings” protest on Saturday.
SAN FRANCISCO — About 24 hours after President Trump declared San Francisco such a crime-ridden “mess” that he was recommending federal forces be sent to restore order, Manit Limlamai, 43, and Kai Saetern, 32, rolled their eyes at the suggestion.
The pair — both in the software industry — were with friends Thursday in Dolores Park, a vibrant green space with sweeping views of downtown, playing volleyball under a blue sky and shining autumn sun. All around them, people sat on benches with books, flew kites, played with dogs or otherwise lounged away the afternoon on blankets in the grass.
Both Limlamai and Saetern said San Francisco of course has issues, and some rougher neighborhoods — but that’s any city.
“I’ve lived here for 10 years and I haven’t felt unsafe, and I’ve lived all over the city,” Saetern said. “Every city has its problems, and I don’t think San Francisco is any different,” but “it’s not a hellscape,” said Limlamai, who has been in the city since 2021.
Both said Trump’s suggestion that he might send in troops was more alarming than reassuring — especially, Limlamai said, on top of his recent remark that American cities should serve as “training grounds” for U.S. military forces.
“I don’t think that’s appropriate at all,” he said. “The military is not trained to do what needs to be done in these cities.”
Across San Francisco, residents, visitors and prominent local leaders expressed similar ideas — if not much sharper condemnation of any troop deployment. None shied away from the fact that San Francisco has problems, especially with homelessness. Several also mentioned a creeping urban decay, and that the city needs a bit of a polish.
But federal troops? That was a hard no.
A range of people on Market Street in downtown San Francisco on Thursday.
“It’s just more of [Trump’s] insanity,” said Peter Hill, 81, as he played chess in a slightly edgier park near City Hall. Hill said using troops domestically was a fascist power play, and “a bad thing for the entire country.”
“It’s fascism,” agreed local activist Wendy Aragon, who was hailing a cab nearby. Her Latino family has been in the country for generations, she said, but she now fears speaking Spanish on the street given that immigration agents have admitted targeting people who look or sound Latino, and troops in the city would only exacerbate those fears. “My community is under attack right now.”
State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) said troop deployments to the city were “completely unnecessary” and “typical Trump: petty, vindictive retaliation.”
“He wants to attack anyone who he perceives as an enemy, and that includes cities, and so he started with L.A. and Southern California because of its large immigrant community, and then he proceeded to cities with large Black populations like Chicago, and now he’s moving on to cities that are just perceived as very lefty like Portland and now San Francisco,” Wiener said.
Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, defended such deployments and noted crime reductions in cities, including Washington, D.C., and Memphis, where local officials — including D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat — have embraced them.
“America’s once great cities have descended into chaos and crime as a result of Democrat policies that put criminals first and law-abiding citizens last. Making America Safe Again — especially crime-ridden cities — was a key campaign promise from the President that the American people elected him to fulfill,” Jackson said. “San Francisco Democrats should look at the tremendous results in DC and Memphis and listen to fellow Democrat Mayor Bowser and welcome the President in to clean up their city.”
A police officer shuts the door to his car after a person was allegedly caught carrying a knife near a sign promoting an AI-powered museum exhibit in downtown San Francisco.
A presidential ‘passion’
San Francisco — a bastion of liberal politics that overwhelmingly voted against Trump in the last election — has been derided by the conservative right for generations as a great American jewel lost to destructive progressive policies.
With its tech-heavy economy and downtown core hit hard by the pandemic and the nation’s shift toward remote work, the city has had a particularly rough go in recent years, which only exacerbated its image as a city in decline. That it produced some of Trump’s most prominent political opponents — including Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris — has only made it more of a punching bag.
In August, Trump suggested San Francisco needed federal intervention. “You look at what the Democrats have done to San Francisco — they’ve destroyed it,” he said in the Oval Office. “We’ll clean that one up, too.”
Then, earlier this month, to the chagrin of liberal leaders across the city, Marc Benioff, the billionaire Salesforce founder and Time magazine owner who has long been a booster of San Francisco, said in an interview with the New York Times that he supported Trump and welcomed Guard troops in the city.
“We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it,” Benioff said, just as his company was preparing to open its annual Dreamforce convention in the city, complete with hundreds of private security officers.
The U.S. Constitution generally precludes military forces from serving in police roles in the U.S.
On Friday, Benioff reversed himself and apologized for his earlier stance. “Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history, I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco,” he wrote on X.
He also apologized for “the concern” his earlier support for troops in the city had caused, and praised San Francisco’s new mayor, Daniel Lurie, for bringing crime down.
Billionaire Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, also called for federal intervention in the city, writing on his X platform that downtown San Francisco is “a drug zombie apocalypse” and that federal intervention was “the only solution at this point.”
Trump made his latest remarks bashing San Francisco on Wednesday, again from the Oval Office.
Trump said it was “one of our great cities 10 years ago, 15 years ago,” but “now it’s a mess” — and that he was recommending federal forces move into the city to make it safer. “I’m gonna be strongly recommending — at the request of government officials, which is always nice — that you start looking at San Francisco,” he said to leading members of his law enforcement team.
Trump did not specify exactly what sort of deployment he meant, or which kinds of federal forces might be involved. He also didn’t say which local officials had allegedly requested help — a claim Wiener called a lie.
“Every American deserves to live in a community where they’re not afraid of being mugged, murdered, robbed, raped, assaulted or shot, and that’s exactly what our administration is working to deliver,” Trump said, before adding that sending federal forces into American cities had become “a passion” of his.
Kai Saetern, 32, was playing volleyball in Dolores Park on Thursday. Saetern said he has never felt unsafe living in neighborhoods all over the city for the last 10 years.
Crime is down citywide
The responses from San Francisco, both to Benioff and Trump, came swiftly, ranging from calm discouragement to full-blown outrage.
Lurie did not respond directly, but his office pointed reporters to his recent statements that crime is down 30% citywide, homicides are at a 70-year low, car break-ins are at a 22-year low and tent encampments are at their lowest number on record.
“We have a lot of work to do,” Lurie said. “But I trust our local law enforcement.”
San Francisco Dist. Atty. Brooke Jenkins was much more fiery, writing online that Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had turned “so-called public safety and immigration enforcement into a form of government sponsored violence against U.S. citizens, families, and ethnic groups,” and that she stood ready to prosecute federal officers if they harm city residents.
Attendees exit the Dreamforce convention downtown on Thursday in San Francisco.
“If you come to San Francisco and illegally harass our residents … I will not hesitate to do my job and hold you accountable just like I do other violators of the law every single day,” she said.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) — whose seat Wiener is reportedly going to seek — said the city “does not want or need Donald Trump’s chaos” and will continue to increase public safety locally and “without the interference of a President seeking headlines.”
Newsom said the use of federal troops in American cities is a “clear violation” of federal law, and that the state was prepared to challenge any such deployment to San Francisco in court, just as it challenged such deployments in Los Angeles earlier this year.
The federal appellate court that oversees California and much of the American West has so far allowed troops to remain in L.A., but is set to continue hearing arguments in the L.A. case soon.
Trump had used anti-immigration enforcement protests in L.A. as a justification to send troops there. In San Francisco, Newsom said, he lacks any justification or “pretext” whatsoever.
“There’s no existing protest at a federal building. There’s no operation that’s being impeded. I guess it’s just a ‘training ground’ for the President of United States,” Newsom said. “It is grossly illegal, it’s immoral, it’s rather delusional.”
Nancy DeStefanis, 76, a longtime labor and environmental activist who was at San Francisco City Hall on Thursday to complain about Golden Gate Park being shut to regular visitors for paid events, was similarly derisive of troops entering the city.
“As far as I’m concerned, and I think most San Franciscans are concerned, we don’t want troops here. We don’t need them,” she said.
Passengers walk past a cracked window from the Civic Center BART station in downtown San Francisco.
‘An image I don’t want to see’
Not far away, throngs of people wearing Dreamforce lanyards streamed in and out of the Moscone Center, heading back and forth to nearby Market Street and pouring into restaurants, coffee shops and take-out joints. The city’s problems — including homelessness and associated grittiness — were apparent at the corners of the crowds, even as chipper convention ambassadors and security officers moved would-be stragglers along.
Not everyone was keen to be identified discussing Trump or safety in the city, with some citing business reasons and others a fear of Trump retaliating against them. But lots of people had opinions.
Sanjiv, a self-described “techie” in his mid-50s, said he preferred to use only his first name because, although he is a U.S. citizen now, he emigrated from India and didn’t want to stick his neck out by publicly criticizing Trump.
He called homelessness a “rampant problem” in San Francisco, but less so than in the past — and hardly something that would justify sending in military troops.
“It’s absolutely ridiculous,” he said. “It’s not like the city’s under siege.”
Claire Roeland, 30, from Austin, Texas, said she has visited San Francisco a handful of times in recent years and had “mixed” experiences. She has family who live in surrounding neighborhoods and find it completely safe, she said, but when she’s in town it’s “predominantly in the business district” — where it’s hard not to be disheartened by the obvious suffering of people with addiction and mental illness and the grime that has accumulated in the emptied-out core.
“There’s a lot of unfortunate urban decay happening, and that makes you feel more unsafe than you actually are,” she said, but there isn’t “any realistic need to send in federal troops.”
She said she doesn’t know what troops would do other than confront homeless people, and “that’s an image I don’t want to see.”
Times staff writer Dakota Smith contributed to this report.
When a conference like Dreamforce comes to the city, Max Gueli, the longtime manager of Working Girls’ Café on New Montgomery, says it’s obviously good for business.
“When we have conventions in town, our sales pretty much double,” he said. “It helps the local economy tremendously. All the restaurants are booked, all the hotels are booked.”
But looking at the bigger picture?
“It’s an opportunity for people to come in and see our city,” he said.
A city in the midst of a years-long battle between perception and reality. Gueli will be the first to acknowledge, the reality of 2020, 2021, and 2022 in San Francisco was rough. But he says that reality has changed significantly in recent years.
“The streets are much cleaner, much safer, and people are coming back – office people are coming back,” he said. “In the last three years or so, there’s been a major improvement in cleaning the area, especially around here. We used to have a lot of homeless people around, especially in this area, but now you don’t see them as much. I think that’s a big improvement.”
So, he’s hopeful Dreamforce will present all of the out-of-towners with an opportunity for a perception correction.
“It’s not just for the conventions. It’s been like this for the whole year,” he said.
Dreamforce brings around 50,000 people to the city for the conference. It generates around $130 million in revenue for the city.
Nicolas Vazquez is here from Minnesota for his second Dreamforce convention. He’ll be leaving town with new tools for his business and a new impression of San Francisco.
“Based on what the media shows you about San Francisco, it doesn’t paint a really good picture,” he said. “But overall, I’ve walked around today and yesterday and have noticed that the city is a lot cleaner, actually.”
Haley Tuller is here from Florida.
“I love San Francisco. I know that it’s gotten a lot of bad press in recent years, and I understand the challenges. But I’ve always had a lovely time here,” she said.
She is a frequent visitor.
“I’ve seen San Francisco when it does not have its Dreamforce face on – so it’s definitely different. You can see that they are making an effort, if that’s the term we want to use,” she said.
Adam Williams is from the Pacific Northwest, here for Dreamforce.
“I live in Seattle, and we get some of that same punching bag treatment,” he said. “I think a lot of our cities with these reputations have taken an upswing in the past few years, post-COVID, and don’t really get the credit for it.”
Skye Tyler, from North Carolina, says she always enjoys coming to the city.
“Every year that I get to come to San Francisco, I consider myself really lucky,” she said. “There is no city, area, state, region, that is free from some of the challenges that are thrown at San Francisco. But, anytime you see or hear those stories about the downsides or the challenges, I would challenge you to look for the helpers.”
Gueli said while the reality in his neighborhood has changed for the better, the city still has a lot of work to do.
“Other parts have not been as successful as us. But hopefully it’ll spread out for the whole city,” he said.
However, he thinks momentum is building.
“Keep going on the path we’re going on right now? We’ll be in really good shape about a year from now,” he said.
President Trump’s administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown, a federal judge ordered on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco said the cuts appeared to be politically motivated and were being carried out without much thought.
“It’s very much ready, fire, aim on most of these programs, and it has a human cost,” she said. “It’s a human cost that cannot be tolerated.”
She granted a temporary restraining order blocking the job cuts, saying she believed the evidence would ultimately show the cuts were illegal and in excess of authority.
The judge’s decision came after federal agencies on Friday started issuing layoff notices aimed at reducing the size of the federal government. The layoff notices are part of an effort by the Trump administration to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues. Russell Vought, the head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said earlier Wednesday that the number of layoffs could reach more than 10,000.
The American Federation of Government Employees and other federal labor unions had asked Illston to block the administration from issuing new layoff notices and implementing those that were already sent out. The unions said the firings were an abuse of power designed to punish workers and pressure Congress.
Illston’s order came as the shutdown, which started Oct. 1, entered its third week. Democratic lawmakers are demanding that any deal to reopen the federal government address their health care demands. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson predicted the shutdown may become the longest in history, saying he “won’t negotiate” with Democrats until they hit pause on those demands and reopen.
Democrats have demanded that health care subsidies, first put in place in 2021 and extended a year later, be extended again. They also want any government funding bill to reverse the Medicaid cuts in Mr. Trump’s tax break and spending cut bill passed this summer.
The Trump administration has been paying the military and pursuing its crackdown on immigration while slashing jobs in health and education, including in special education and after-school programs. Mr. Trump said programs favored by Democrats are being targeted and “they’re never going to come back, in many cases.”
In a court filing, the administration initially said it planned to fire more than 4,100 employees across eight agencies, but Vought said that number was a “snapshot” that was likely to grow.
The unions said the layoff notices are an illegal attempt at political pressure and retribution and are based on the false premise that a temporary funding lapse eliminates Congress’ authorization of agency programs.
The government said the district court lacks jurisdiction to hear employment decisions made by federal agencies.
The San Francisco Police Department reported the largest surge of recruits in years as it seeks to address an ongoing staffing shortage, city officials said.
In a statement Wednesday, the department said it has received 3,375 entry-level applications so far this year, up 40%. Another 195 officers from other departments have applied for a lateral move, an increase of 364%. The department reported the SFPD Academy has seen four full classes in a row and that there is a net positive increase in officers on the street for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Our political officials and the public support our police, and we’re helping make San Francisco safer than ever before. Working for the SFPD and serving the community is an incredibly rewarding career,” said interim chief Paul Yep.
The initiative included steps to accelerate hiring and increase outreach, along with allowing recent police retirees to staff special events and shifting administrative work to civilian staff. In addition, the department said it worked with the Mayor’s Office of Innovation to implement solutions to address hiring bottlenecks.
According to the department, the time it takes to hire new recruits has been cut by 50% and graduations have increased by more than 20%, which it says is happening without compromising training standards.
“Thanks to our Rebuilding the Ranks plan to fully staff our police department and sheriff’s office, we are seeing real progress: Crime is down 30% citywide and at its lowest point in decades, with more applications coming in, hiring moving more quickly, and more officers coming through the academy,” Lurie said.
On Tuesday, city officials touted new crime statistics which found violent crime is down 18% so far this year and the number of homicides in San Francisco on pace to be at a 70-year low.
In addition to more police officers, similar reforms are being credited for the largest increase in the number of sheriff’s deputies in a decade.
According to a city analysis, SFPD has about 1,500 sworn officers, while the recommended staffing level is more than 2,000 officers. The department said it has largely relied on overtime to meet public safety needs.
A fifth police academy scheduled to begin in December.
A three-alarm blaze erupted early Wednesday morning in a residential building in San Francisco’s Marina District, sending thick smoke over the neighborhood and injuring two firefighters, fire officials said.
San Francisco Fire Department crews are battling flames inside the burning structure in the 2500 block of Chestnut Street, as of 5 a.m. The public is urged to stay clear of Chestnut Street between Baker and Broderick streets to allow emergency vehicles to operate safely in the area.
The department said the injured firefighters were taken to the hospital. Their latest conditions were not immediately known.
The cause of the blaze has not yet been confirmed.
He actually appreciated the intensity Kuminga showed when he got right in the official’s face to argue his case in Portland on Tuesday.
“He got fouled, and it was frustration play, and I have no problem with it, because he deserved the foul and he was getting fouled quite a bit,” Kerr told media after the game, later adding, “I love the way he played, I love the fire, the passion. I don’t mind the ejection at all. I kind of liked it, actually. I thought JK was terrific.”
His activity on the glass was also much improved from Sunday’s game against the Lakers, when Kuminga grabbed zero rebounds.
“The way he ran on that play, the activity he played with, and he had six boards in one half in 17 minutes, that’s the JK who can really help our team,” Kerr said.
Kuminga recently signed a two-year, $46.5 million contract after a dramatic summer-long negotiation with the front office. During his introductory press conference, he pledged to focus on more than just scoring, something he has done thus far.
He has dished out 16 assists in four games, and has, aside from the goose egg in Los Angeles, grabbed at least five rebounds in each of the other three games.
San Francisco police said they arrested a person suspected of brandishing a gun during a dispute with another person on Monday afternoon.
Officers were called to a multi-residential building on Jones Street, between Golden Gate Avenue and McAllister Street, around 12:41 p.m. Police said officers were told there was a dispute between two people and that one of them had brandished a gun.
When police arrived, they learned the person who allegedly brandished the gun had gone to his room and barricaded himself. Police said officers tried to contact him and resolve the standoff peacefully.
The person left the room just before 3:30 p.m. and was arrested, police said.
Police said the person’s identity and the charges are still pending.
It was a beautiful day in the Marina district on Sunday to end an unconventional Fleet Week.
“It was not its usual Fleet Week,” said the owner of Bonita Taqueria y Rotisserie, JJ Sweidan. “That’s for sure.”
Sweidan said Sunday would usually be an ideal day for Fleet Week, clear skies and warm weather, but with the government shutdown, the roaring engines of the Blue Angels airshow were nowhere to be heard.
“Definitely a little bit quieter,” Sweidan remarked. “The skies were quieter. It wasn’t as crazy as usual.”
Sweidan’s restaurant has been located on Chestnut Street, just blocks from Marina Green, for more than a decade. He knows what a normal Fleet Week looks like, and the crowds weren’t the same.
“The one thing I did notice is usually as soon as the plane shows end around 3 or so, everyone comes flocking down, we didn’t get that crazy rush on the street,” explained Sweidan.
Fleet Week is his restaurant’s busiest weekend of the year. He anticipated a slower weekend because of the shutdown, but with the Canadian Snowbirds still putting on a show, he cautiously stocked up on supplies.
“It was scary,” said Sweidan about the moment he heard the Blue Angels would not be performing. “For us businesses, especially in the Marina District, there’s a few weekends that we get that are our bread and butter; we know what to expect, so it was definitely devastating.”
While he didn’t get the number of customers he does for a normal Fleet Week, people still came out.
“We were hoping for the best, like I said, it could have been better, but it wasn’t as bad as anticipated, so we’re glad it turned out to be what it was,” Sweidan said with relief.
Just across the street at La Fromagerie Cheese Shop, owner Dylan Fraioli had similar concerns.
“Yeah, yeah,” said Fraioli when she was asked if she was worried. “I had a lot of customers that called and said, ‘Let’s cancel for the event.’ I was like, ‘Oh, that’s so sad.’”
But she says in the end, they had plenty of foot traffic and didn’t feel any negative impact on their sales.
“Actually, this weekend was very busy,” Fraioli clarified. “The only thing compared to last year was there was no noise. We didn’t hear anything.”
While Sweidan is grateful for the business he did get, he’s hoping for an even better Fleet Week next year.
“I would hope there’s not a government shutdown,” said Sweidan. “I’m hoping San Francisco maybe changes its Fleet Week to not always fall when the government may shut down. That would help us. It’s definitely a big boost for the economy.”
LOS ANGELES – A half dozen future members of the Basketball Hall of Fame were in Crypto Arena on Sunday night. Unfortunately for the paying public, most of them were inactive in the Warriors’ 126-116 loss to the host Lakers.
On the Warriors bench, Steph Curry and Al Horford were in street clothes, and Jimmy Butler was not even in the building, as he missed the game for personal reasons.
The Lakers were down LeBron James, afflicted by nerve pain. Luka Doncic was still not game-ready, and former Defensive Player of the Year Marcus Smart was ruled out a few hours before tipoff.
The results were … predictably ugly for the Warriors.
Starting Brandin Podziemski at point guard, Jonathan Kuminga next to Draymond Green at forward, and flanked by Quinten Post and Buddy Hield as shooters, the ragtag Warriors sputtered early, falling behind 63-46 by halftime.
If there was any area the team missed their stars, it was in the ballhandling department. Golden State committed 20 turnovers, a ghastly 14 of them in the first half.
“The spacing wasn’t good,” coach Steve Kerr said. “then in the second half, that was much more how like we wanted to play.”
Podziemski was the star for shorthanded Golden State, with a stellar 23-point, eight assist night on 10 of 16 shooting. Kuminga poured in 13 points, and Gary Payton II had 11 points. Austin Reaves led the Lakers with 21 points. Undrafted guard LJ Cryer scored 11 points, all in the fourth quarter.
Green played 22 minutes, the most the 35-year-old has played thus far in any game this preseason. He will not suit up when the Warriors take on Portland on Tuesday.
“He will have the night off in Portland, and then play against the Clippers on Friday,” Kerr said.
The Warriors won the first matchup between West Coast teams 129-123 at Chase Center last week.
Brandin Podziemski, point guard
Brandin Podziemski does all of the little things as a guard. He makes quick passes that maintain advantages. He fights for rebounds and earns Golden State extra possessions. He’ll make a few shots.
But driving the offense as a point guard? That is far from one of his strengths, but something he was asked to do against the Lakers with Curry and Butler sitting. The results were decent, with the Santa Clara alum dishing out eight assists.
“I think I’ve played pretty well (in preseason and training camp),” Podziemski said. “I’m just trying to find my lane and do the right things on and off the flor. And what I’ve been doing has been working.”
He flashed as a playmaker in the open court, driving in transition on a number of occasions before dishing off to a cutting Hield or another teammate.
And on a night when his teammates couldn’t help themselves when it came to giving away possessions, Podziemski only had two turnovers. On an otherwise forgettable night in Los Angeles, Podziemski was a bright spot in the city of stars.
Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green passes the ball during the first half of a preseason NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Lakers Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Jonathan Kuminga keeps on passing
With the team’s top offensive engines sidelined, the stage was set for a Kuminga chuckfest. Instead, the fifth-year forward adhered to the same pass-first philosophy – an ill-advised pullup 3-pointer aside – he had shown in the first two games.
Kuminga dished out six assists in 22 minutes, the most impressive being a pair of first quarter dimes thrown in the open court. He was also the only Warrior to reach the free throw line in the first half, knocking down both of his foul shots.
GP2 still has it
Steve Kerr seems to love few things more than raving about Gary Payton II’s impact during the team’s run to the 2022 championship. Back then, Payton was a destructive and uber-athletic 6-foot-3 bundle of energy, capable of blowing up plays with hustle and a limitless vertical leap.
These days, Payton, 32, is a step slower and cannot quite soar the way he could three years ago. But that does not stop him from making an impact in smaller bursts.
In 16 minutes off the bench, Payton made all five of his shots and harassed any ballhandler he was assigned to.
He had a vintage moment in the late third, when he finished a layup between four defenders, and then threw a pass to Will Richrd for a fastbreak layup on the next possession.
Another tech giant has joined Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff in calling for National Guard troops to be deployed in San Francisco. Tesla CEO Elon Musk criticized the city this week, saying he supports federal intervention to combat crime.
The debate comes as tens of thousands of tech workers from around the world arrive in the city for the annual Dreamforce conference, which kicks off on Tuesday and is expected to draw about 50,000 attendees.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has rejected the idea of bringing in the National Guard by pointing to recent crime reductions and praising local law enforcement. Laurie has also been careful not to offend those who contribute millions of dollars to the city.
At the annual Italian Heritage Parade on Sunday, support for the mayor’s stance was evident among San Franciscans. Parade-goer Ana Hernandez said she does not believe soldiers are necessary.
“I’ve been here 25 years, and we’ve never had the need of having them here. Bringing them here, I think it would bring more chaos, scare for the people,” Hernandez said.
She and her family said they feel safe in the city, although they acknowledge that homelessness and open-air drug markets remain significant challenges.
“It takes time, but I feel like it will change for good,” Hernandez added.
Her sister, Susana Chavez, emphasized collaboration.
“We have work to do. I say we collaborate and work with what we have,” Chavez said.
Benioff recently told The New York Times that President Trump should send in the National Guard to fight crime. Musk supported Benioff over the weekend on X, formerly Twitter, describing downtown San Francisco as a “drug zombie apocalypse” and saying federal intervention is needed.
“Crime is down 30 percent citywide. SFPD, our sheriff’s department, is doing an incredible job. We’re going to keep people safe during Salesforce and Dreamforce this week. And we’re going to keep people safe 365 days a year,” Lurie said.
The mayor added that involving the National Guard would strip local control from law enforcement.
“Local law enforcement knows how to police here in San Francisco. They know how to protect our citizens. They know how to protect our conference-goers,” he said.
Interim SFPD Chief Paul Yep echoed the mayor’s praise for the police.
“Crime is down in San Francisco. I’m proud of the work that the rank and file do every day,” he said.
Benioff appeared to soften his stance on Sunday, tweeting that his comments were really about addressing the city’s police shortage. He also announced that Salesforce will donate $1 million to fund larger hiring bonuses for new police officers.
Many residents said that focusing on local law enforcement is the right approach.
“Invest more money into the law enforcement. Let them clean it up, not the National Guard,” Antonio Carter, a new San Francisco resident, said.
“That’s why we have our own local police, to fix whatever problems or issues we have,” Hernandez said.
Lurie said the city is working hard to recruit and retain police officers and is confident that Dreamforce will be safe.
Firefighters quickly contained a blaze in a two-story San Francisco home that left one person injured early Sunday morning.
Crews responded to the 1600 block of 42nd Avenue around 5:58 a.m. after receiving a 911 call reporting a garage fire, San Francisco Fire Department said via social media.
When firefighters arrived four minutes after receiving the report, they found heavy flames on the first floor of the structure and smoke coming from both the front and rear of the building.
One woman was rescued from the backyard and treated for smoke inhalation. She was later transported to a hospital for further care, authorities said.
Firefighters contained the blaze to the first floor, preventing it from spreading to the second story or attic.
One person other person was displaced, firefighters said.
PG&E was called to the scene to address gas and electrical concerns as part of post-fire safety checks.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
The San Francisco Fire Department responded to a one-alarm structure fire on Sunday morning.
Around 7 a.m., the fire department said crews had responded to the 1600 block of 42nd Avenue.
1 – ALARM FIRE
San Francisco Fire is on the scene of a 1-alarm structure fire in the 1600 block of 42nd ave.
The fire has been contained to the front of the structure. Fire crews are checking extension in the walls and parts of the ceiling . At this time, one injury has been… pic.twitter.com/205JnfvqZw
— SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT MEDIA (@SFFDPIO) October 12, 2025
They were able to contain the fire to the front of the structure.
The Breakaway Music Festival is hosting its inaugural event in Sacramento at Cal Expo, bringing electronic dance music to the city after three years in San Francisco.The festival features three stages and dozens of performances. Day one was marked with performances from Tiesto, Elderbrook and Malaa. Martin Garrix and Louis the Child will headline day two. “It’s great. I love it. We’re happy to be here and excited for the next two days,” festivalgoer Ryan McAuliffe said. The move to Sacramento surprised some attendees, but many said they were pleased with the convenience. “I was really surprised that EDM was making its way over to Sacramento of all places. I mean, I’m used to going to San Francisco and all sorts of different places,” festivalgoer Dre Alvarado said. “But in Sacramento, it’s kind of great to just be able to just drive 10 minutes from my house to come to an EDM fest.””First of all, less travel time. So it’s great. I love it,” festivalgoer Yadira Cuevas said. Visit Sacramento noted that the festival will provide a boost to the city during a weekend that previously hosted the GoldenSky Country Music Festival. They expect about 20,000 people over two days. The festival is introducing a new sound to Sacramento, but it is fostering a familiar sense of community. “I think like overall, like there’s just so much love and positivity,” Alvarado said.”Everybody just feels like family when you don’t even know them,” festivalgoer Gabriela Hernandez said. “We’re here to dance and it’s just all peace, love, unity and respect,” festivalgoer Amanda Katami said. Many people said they hope the festival will become a regular event in Sacramento.”Hopefully, people bought tickets so they were they could bring it back next year,” Cuevas said.Doors open for day two at 3 p.m. Tickets are still available, with a one-day pass costing about $100.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
The Breakaway Music Festival is hosting its inaugural event in Sacramento at Cal Expo, bringing electronic dance music to the city after three years in San Francisco.
The festival features three stages and dozens of performances. Day one was marked with performances from Tiesto, Elderbrook and Malaa. Martin Garrix and Louis the Child will headline day two.
“It’s great. I love it. We’re happy to be here and excited for the next two days,” festivalgoer Ryan McAuliffe said.
The move to Sacramento surprised some attendees, but many said they were pleased with the convenience.
“I was really surprised that EDM was making its way over to Sacramento of all places. I mean, I’m used to going to San Francisco and all sorts of different places,” festivalgoer Dre Alvarado said. “But in Sacramento, it’s kind of great to just be able to just drive 10 minutes from my house to come to an EDM fest.”
“First of all, less travel time. So it’s great. I love it,” festivalgoer Yadira Cuevas said.
The shutdown of the federal government is having an impact on Fleet Week in San Francisco, as many of the familiar sights are missing this year. But it’s also affecting other lesser-known attractions, including an artistic exhibit honoring Black history at Fort Point.
It’s called “Black Gold, Stories Untold,” an exhibit in the hallways and dark rooms of the old fort, that is part history lesson, part art installation. The inspiration for the event was a desire to tell the story of the Black Army regiment known as the Buffalo Soldiers. But it also speaks about other, unknown figures in the largely untold narrative of Black History during the Gold Rush era.
“Individuals that we’re celebrating today because they successfully navigated issues of race, issues of power, and made an impact on California. But their history is not known,” said Clara Kamunde, docent coordinator for an art non-profit called FOR-SITE, which sponsored the exhibition.
But she said many of the display’s messages are left up to individual interpretation. For example, the story of California trailblazer James Beckwourth is symbolized with a group of indigenous tents, symbolic of the help the Black frontiersman got from various native tribes as he plotted a safe route for travelers across the Sierra Nevada mountains. But the artist intentionally selected a fragile structure made of cloth to do it.
“Yes, we celebrate these individuals,” said Kamunde, “but when you have monuments that are intended to last forever, the question we have to ask is, why? And what is the intention behind that?”
Another piece, entitled “Untold Histories, Hidden Truths,” shows three large statues completely wrapped in red fabric, symbolizing the honored Confederate sympathizers, including Francis Scott Key, torn down in 2020 by protestors.
“Asking us to question why some stories are told–with hidden truths. Because most people would say, ‘Well, he should be celebrated, he wrote the national anthem.’ But there are other stories that are unknown,” said Kamunde. “I feel like it’s a cautionary tale against singular perspectives. History is not static. Culture is not static. And sometimes, when the idea is to have one perspective, one view, one idea. That just isn’t possible.”
There are other images in the exhibit to ponder, like a beaded curtain showing two Black Civil War soldiers that people walk through, as if they’re not really there. And an art display from a student group that had its National Endowment for the Arts funding grant cancelled. But ultimately, the exhibit had the same fate.
It began in June, but the federal shutdown ended the show about a month early. They were able to reopen just during Fleet Week weekend thanks to donations from the Park Conservancy and private contributors. It was scheduled to stay open through Monday with free admission to the public.
“I’m just super disappointed on my end because we were scheduled to serve so many students, so many youths and community members,” said FOR-SITE’s Visitor Engagement Coordinator, Crystal Barillas. “I am grateful for the time that we did have and the opportunity that we did have to welcome groups. And they now know that the fort exists, the park exists and the park partners at the Conservancy at the Presidio Trust have so many opportunities to welcome students and community groups.”
Our understanding of history is determined by those who wrote it. But, for some, the struggle continues to give a fuller picture of what that actually looks like.
A 63-year-old man has been convicted of setting fire to 10 vehicles in San Francisco’s Union Square and Yerba Buena districts.
In a two-week period in February, Armando Salvador’s arson spree targeted vehicles including a Cadillac Escalade and two Tesla Model Ys, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office said Friday.
The Teslas burned so intensely, the fires spread to two other vehicles parked nearby, prosecutors said.
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins credited the work of fire and police investigators and videos supplied by “several concerned local citizens” with cracking the case.
“This case demonstrates how public safety agencies working together with community partners can keep our neighborhoods safe for residents, workers, and visitors,” Jenkins said.
A jury convicted Salvador of eight counts of arson of another’s property and two counts of unlawfully causing a fire.
Prosecutors said the fires began on Feb. 18 when Salvador set fire to the Escalade on Campton Place and five more vehicles on Geary Street and O’Farrell Street, all in the Union Square district.
On Feb. 24, Salvador set fire to a Tesla at Mabini Street and Bonifacio Street and another at Shipley Street and Fourth Street, in the Yerba Buena district near Moscone Center. They, in turn, burned two other vehicles parked nearby, Jenkins said.
Salvador is currently in custody. He is to be sentenced Oct. 27.
Marc Benioff has become the latest Silicon Valley tech leader to signal his approval of President Trump, saying that the president is doing a great job and ought to deploy the National Guard to deal with crime in San Francisco.
The Salesforce chief executive’s comments came as he headed to San Francisco to host his annual Dreamforce conference — an event for which he said he had to hire hundreds of off-duty police to provide security.
“We don’t have enough cops, so if they [National Guard] can be cops, I’m all for it,” he told the New York Times from aboard his private plane.
The National Guard is generally not allowed to perform domestic law enforcement duties when federalized by the president.
Last month, a federal judge ruled that Trump’s use of National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act — which restricts use of the military for domestic law enforcement — and ordered that the troops not be used in law enforcement operations within California.
Trump has also ordered the National Guard to deploy to cities such as Portland, Ore., and Chicago, citing the need to protect federal officers and assets in the face of ongoing immigration protests. Those efforts have been met with criticism from local leaders and are the subject of ongoing legal battles.
President Trump has yet to direct troops to Northern California, but suggested in September that San Francisco could be a target for deployment. He has said that cities with Democratic political leadership such as San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles “are very unsafe places and we are going to straighten them out.”
“I told [Defense Secretary] Pete [Hegseth] we should use some of these dangerous cities as training for our military, our national guard,” Trump said.
Benioff’s call to send National Guard troops to San Francisco drew sharp rebukes from several of the region’s elected Democratic leaders.
San Francisco Dist. Atty. Brooke Jenkins said she “can’t be silent any longer” and threatened to prosecute any leaders or troops who harass residents in a fiery statement on X.
“I am responsible for holding criminals accountable, and that includes holding government and law enforcement officials too, when they cross the bounds of the law,” she said. “If you come to San Francisco and illegally harass our residents, use excessive force or cross any other boundaries that the law prescribes, I will not hesitate to do my job and hold you accountable just like I do other violators of the law every single day.”
State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) also took to X to express indignation, saying, “we neither need nor want an illegal military occupation in San Francisco.”
“Salesforce is a great San Francisco company that does so much good for our city,” he said. “Inviting Trump to send the National Guard here is not one of those good things. Quite the opposite.”
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s office offered a more muted response, touting the mayor’s efforts to boost public safety in general, but declining to directly address Benioff’s remarks.
Charles Lutvak, a spokesperson for the mayor, noted that the city is seeing net gains in both police officers and sheriff’s deputies for the first time in a decade. He also highlighted Lurie’s efforts to bring police staffing up to 2,000 officers.
“Crime is down nearly 30% citywide and at its lowest point in decades,” Lutvak said. “We are moving in the right direction and will continue to prioritize safety and hiring while San Francisco law enforcement works every single day to keep our city safe.”
When contacted by The Times on Friday night, the office of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who vociferously opposed the deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles, did not issue a comment in response to Benioff.
Benioff and Newsom have long been considered friends, with a relationship dating back to when Newsom served as San Francisco’s mayor. Newsom even named Benioff as godfather to one of his children, according to the San Francisco Standard.
Benioff has often referred to himself as an independent. He has donated to several liberal causes, including a $30-million donation to UC San Francisco to study homelessness, and has contributed to prior political campaigns of former President Obama, former Vice President Kamala Harris, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Hillary Clinton.
However, he has also donated to the campaigns of former House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. John McCain, both Republicans, and supported tougher-on-crime policies and reducing government spending.
Earlier this year, Benioff also praised the Elon Musk-led federal cost-cutting effort known as the Department of Government Efficiency.
“I fully support the president,” Benioff told the New York Times this week. “I think he’s doing a great job.”
In fewer than 15 minutes, two separate carloads of people pulled up to the John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez last Saturday. But then they turned away because the 325-acre park, with its Victorian mansion, historic pear orchard and visitor’s center, had been closed to the public without notice.
“What’s going on?” a man in one car asked. When told that the park was closed because of the federal government shutdown, he said, “I didn’t expect a historic site to be closed. I feel bad.” He had driven an hour from Santa Clara to Martinez, having heard that a famous American once lived there.
That eminent figure is Muir, the Scottish-born naturalist who founded the Sierra Club and hosted President Theodore Roosevelt on a camping trip in Yosemite in 1903. Muir is called the “father of the national parks,” in part because the writing he did in his Martinez study persuaded Americans to see their wilderness areas as treasures to preserve, not as resources to be exploited.
John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez, pictured on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, is closed to the public due to the government shutdown. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
But since Oct. 1, Muir’s home has been shuttered, a closure Jonathan Jarvis, the director of the park service from 2009 to 2017, and Mark Rose, Sierra Nevada and clean air senior program manager of National Parks Conservation Association, said was emblematic of the murky future of the National Park Service.
Popular national parks in the Bay Area such as Alcatraz, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes National Seashore remain open during the shutdown, though some of the larger open-air parks will offer bare-bones services. But three smaller, historic parks have been closed in Contra Costa County: Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial in Concord, and the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site in Danville.
Tao House, located at the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site in Danville, where playwright Eugene O’Neill and his wife, Carlotta, lived from 1937 to 1944, is one of the national parks closed due to the federal government shutdown. (Cindi Christie/Staff Archives)
Jarvis and Rose said they fear the shutdown could become a pretext to drastically reduce funding for the country’s public parks, even as they broke attendance records in 2024, with 332 million visits. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump proposed $900 million in cuts to the park service — as detailed in a May 2 letter to the Senate Committee on Appropriations from Russell Vought, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget — potentially wiping out budgets for at least 350 of the 433 parks, according to the National Parks Conservation Association.
Even though a House Appropriations Committee proposal would avert the administration’s “most damaging” cuts, the park service has still lost a quarter of its permanent staff since earlier this year, the parks association said. With the shutdown, more than 9,200 parks employees have been furloughed without pay, according to the Department of the Interior’s National Park Service Contingency Plan.
Friday, Vought announced on X that “The RIFs have begun,” referring to reductions-in-force of the 750,000 federal employees currently furloughed because of the shutdown. Politico confirmed with an OMB spokesperson that the reductions “are substantial” and “not furloughs.”
“The administration has been calling it a reduction in force, but it would just be a mass termination of potentially hundreds of thousands of additional park service staff,” Rose said.
The park service, in an email, said it “remains committed to maintaining as much access as possible to park lands during the lapse in appropriations. Critical functions that protect life, property and public health will continue to be staffed.”
The spokesperson did not respond to a question about potential layoffs, saying, “We do not have comment on personnel matters.” The White House Press Office’s automatic reply email stated media members could expect delays in responses because of the shutdown.
In contrast to the official parks service statement, Rose and Jarvis describe a more dire situation: To stay open, larger open-air national parks are relying on skeleton crews, which may be challenged to stop vandalism, harm to wildlife or damage to natural resources. Rose also said public safety is compromised, as help could be delayed if visitors get lost or injured.
This situation is the result of “a combination of incompetence and intent,” said Jarvis, who lives in Pinole. During a 2013 government shutdown, he closed all the national parks and said it’s “stupid” that parks are not all closed right now, though this move would be politically unpopular. He said the circumstances around this shutdown are unlike anything he’s seen. “It’s chaos upon chaos,” he said of the current state of the national park service.
Jarvis and Rose describe a top-down style of leadership in the U.S. Department of the Interior, which runs the park service, resulting in confusing information about what’s open, what’s closed and how the public should be notified. The national parks shutdown contingency plan stated that park websites and social media would not be updated, nor will regular notices of road or trail closures be posted.
Jarvis has raised concerns that the Trump administration is setting up national parks to fail. In a worse-case scenario he described in The Guardian, the parks’ failure would give this administration an excuse to privatize the park service’s high-visitation “cash cows,” such as Yosemite, Yellowstone and Grand Canyon.
As for the hundreds of smaller parks, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in May proposed the idea of transferring them to state agencies, as recommended by the Office of Budget and Management. Jarvis said that wouldn’t be easy, given that each national park was established by Congress and new legislation would be needed to strip them of their status. It’s also questionable whether many states could step in to run these parks, he said.
The John Muir site and the other Contra Costa parks fall into that category. The park service manages more than 130 sites that highlight places related to significant figures and events in American history. This includes famous battlegrounds, presidential homes and others that have been established to elevate narratives about those sidelined in traditional texts.
Interior of the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park visitor center on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025, in Richmond, Calif. This site is closed to the public due to the government shutdown. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
So the Bay Area is home to the Rosie the Riveter park, which spotlights women who contributed to the war effort, local Japanese Americans and Black migrants from the segregated South. World War II also provides the backdrop for Concord’s Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, which honors 320 Black soldiers killed in a 1944 explosion while unloading munitions — a tragedy that led to desegregation of the military.
Even if the Trump administration doesn’t have the legal authority to offload these sites, Jarvis expressed concern about the “moral aspect” of sending the message that they should be removed from the national park system.
“You’re basically saying that the people that the stories that these parks represent are not relevant to the American experience, and that’s just horrible,” Jarvis said.
Demonstrators gathered in front of San Francisco Federal Building Friday night to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza as Israeli soldiers are pulling out of parts of Gaza.
The first phase of President Donald Trump’s deal is underway. Trump says he expects Israeli hostages to be released Monday or Tuesday. 20 are believed to be alive, and there’s 28 bodies.
Trump is also expected to visit Israel early next week. Two US officials say the US military is preparing options to deploy as many as 200 US troops to support the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
The officials say the troops will stay in Israel where they will support logistics and transportation.
Trump advisors Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff said Israeli military pressure on Hamas was key to the peace deal.
At a hospital outside Tel Aviv, they’re running drills with actors to prepare for when the hostages arrive.
As Israeli troops pulled back from towns and cities in Gaza, Palestinians began walking to see what was left of their homes.
Mohammed Sharab discovered his hardware stores and home are now rubble.
“We have nothing left to live for,” Sharab said.
The director of Gaza’s largest hospital told NBC News that more than 100 bodies were found under rubble Friday.
In San Francisco, some gathered in front of the federal building to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza.
The crowd was talking about the peace deal but stressing more needs to be done.
They say they want Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport to stop military shipments to Israel.
“We want to make sure that if there’s going to be a ceasefire, it can actually stay and Palestinians can maintain their right to live in peace and dignity. And for that reason we’re continuing our fight for an arms embargo in Oakland,” said Irom, who attended the rally.
NBC Bay Area reached out to the Oakland airport for comment. They sent a statement that said in part, “Like all federally regulated public airports in the nation, OAK is legally required to accommodate federally authorized air traffic, including air cargo arranged by the U.S. government and/or private air cargo providers, including FedEx…Due to federal laws and FAA regulations that govern all airports in the United States, OAK does not control access to cargo manifests or the shipping activity of its carriers.”
