Saturday, December 08, 2018

BEING A SPECTATOR IS NOT NECESSARILY SAFE

by Bob Walsh

Even being a legal spectator has it's issues. A couple of years back several dozen people died at the Reno Air Show when a high-performance aircraft crashed into the crowed. Many years ago, 1930s I think, a Ferrari crashed into spectator's at race in Italy (or France Maybe) and killed more than a dozen people. Being a spectator at an illegal activity has it's issues as well.

Josue Mejia-Sanchez, 16, was recording a street fight in the Outer Mission District of the People's Republic of San Francisco this past weekend. He was stabbed in the neck by Sergio Rocha, 38. Rocha himself was then stabbed by somebody else during the disturbance.

Rocha was not involved in the original disturbance, which appeared to be a perfectly normal two-man fist fight. When a crowd showed up Rocha pulled his toad sticker, shoved one spectator and shanked the kid and starting swinging the knife at others. At that time somebody else shanked Rocha, and another somebody gave him a beer bottle head massage.

Rocha denied any intent to hurt anyone. The cops do have a copy of the video, so...….

He is being charged with murder and a bunch of other stuff. .

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