<story><title>Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/death-by-gentrification-the-killing-that-shamed-san-francisco</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is a person Rebecca Solnit chose to single out, carefully juxtaposing reports of his (incredibly obnoxious) behavior against Nieto&amp;#x27;s shooting, to which, even by Solnit&amp;#x27;s account (read carefully), &lt;i&gt;he was not a party&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to get drinks with this character in Solnit&amp;#x27;s story, either. But I&amp;#x27;m not sure we should applaud the tactic of summoning up and focusing outrage on people like this.</text></item><item><author>navait</author><text>&amp;gt; Evan Snow, a thirtysomething “user experience design professional”..., who had moved to the neighbourhood about six months earlier (and who has since departed for a more suburban environment)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Snow never seemed to recognise that his out-of-control dog was the aggressor: “So Luna was, I think, looking to move around the benches or behind me to run up happily to get a chip from Mr Nieto. Mr Nieto became further – what’s the right word? – distressed, moving very quickly and rapidly left to right, trying to keep his chips away from Luna. He ran down to these benches and jumped up on the benches, my dog following. She was at that point vocalising, barking, or kind of howling.”&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;– in his deposition for the case, under oath, his exact words were that he was distracted by a female “jogger’s butt”. “I can imagine that somebody would – could assume the dog was being aggressive at that point,” Snow said. The dog did not come when he called, but kept barking. Nieto, Snow says, then pulled back his jacket and took his Taser out, briefly pointing at the distant dog-owner before he pointed it at the dog baying at his feet. The two men yelled at each other, and Snow apparently used a racial slur, but would not later give the precise word. As he left the park, he texted a friend about the incident. His text, according to his testimony, said, “in another state like Florida, I would have been justified in shooting Mr Nieto that night”&lt;p&gt;Is this guy real? This is the sort of person I&amp;#x27;d expect to see on &lt;i&gt;Silicon Valley&lt;/i&gt; not in the real world, he fits the techbro stereotype exactly. After each sentence I read, I thought this guy couldn&amp;#x27;t get even more stereotypical, but he managed to lower the bar further.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robterrell</author><text>Her implication is that this guy&amp;#x27;s dog is why the taser was visible, and the taser was reported as a handgun, and the police responded to that. I&amp;#x27;d say he&amp;#x27;s a party -- his self-reported distraction started the whole series of events.</text></comment>
<story><title>Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/death-by-gentrification-the-killing-that-shamed-san-francisco</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is a person Rebecca Solnit chose to single out, carefully juxtaposing reports of his (incredibly obnoxious) behavior against Nieto&amp;#x27;s shooting, to which, even by Solnit&amp;#x27;s account (read carefully), &lt;i&gt;he was not a party&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to get drinks with this character in Solnit&amp;#x27;s story, either. But I&amp;#x27;m not sure we should applaud the tactic of summoning up and focusing outrage on people like this.</text></item><item><author>navait</author><text>&amp;gt; Evan Snow, a thirtysomething “user experience design professional”..., who had moved to the neighbourhood about six months earlier (and who has since departed for a more suburban environment)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Snow never seemed to recognise that his out-of-control dog was the aggressor: “So Luna was, I think, looking to move around the benches or behind me to run up happily to get a chip from Mr Nieto. Mr Nieto became further – what’s the right word? – distressed, moving very quickly and rapidly left to right, trying to keep his chips away from Luna. He ran down to these benches and jumped up on the benches, my dog following. She was at that point vocalising, barking, or kind of howling.”&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;– in his deposition for the case, under oath, his exact words were that he was distracted by a female “jogger’s butt”. “I can imagine that somebody would – could assume the dog was being aggressive at that point,” Snow said. The dog did not come when he called, but kept barking. Nieto, Snow says, then pulled back his jacket and took his Taser out, briefly pointing at the distant dog-owner before he pointed it at the dog baying at his feet. The two men yelled at each other, and Snow apparently used a racial slur, but would not later give the precise word. As he left the park, he texted a friend about the incident. His text, according to his testimony, said, “in another state like Florida, I would have been justified in shooting Mr Nieto that night”&lt;p&gt;Is this guy real? This is the sort of person I&amp;#x27;d expect to see on &lt;i&gt;Silicon Valley&lt;/i&gt; not in the real world, he fits the techbro stereotype exactly. After each sentence I read, I thought this guy couldn&amp;#x27;t get even more stereotypical, but he managed to lower the bar further.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wambotron</author><text>Other people said he seemed agitated and nervous when their dogs were walking about by him. I imagine if a dog just charged at you and was barking&amp;#x2F;howling while its owner was staring at someone&amp;#x27;s ass, you&amp;#x27;d be on edge for a bit as well.</text></comment>