Elon Musk said on Friday that Supervisor Dean Preston 'should go to jail,' the latest in a tirade against the city's only socialist official.
Tan had pledged $50,000 to the PAC opposing Preston, an amount Musk said he would double. Tan is also a board member of the group Grow SF, which is behind the PAC, and whose founders haveSupervisor Aaron Peskin, a fellow progressive, called attention to the cavalcade opposing Preston. He said Musk was “spending their money in the same ways” as other tech executives and said he was representative of that class, even if his rhetoric is often harsher.
“In some ways, I think Elon Musk is doing San Francisco a favor because he is actually saying what some of his fellow billionaires think but don’t say,” Peskin said. “People in the San Francisco Bay Area are offended by it and are too sophisticated to fall for it, and it’s probably the best thing that ever happened to Dean Preston.”
The ordinance Preston introduced on Thursday — and apparently reviled by Musk — was crafted in response to the shooting death of Banko Brown, a transgender man who was shot and killed at a mid-Market Walgreens in April. Brown was suspected of shoplifting some $15 worth of snacks and, on his way out of the store, was intercepted by a security guard.
The guard wrestled with and threw Brown onto the floor and, as Brown was backing out of the exit, shot him once in the chest. The guard was not charged for the shooting, which is under review by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
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