For the second time on a week, San Francisco police are doing an absolutely overwhelming display of force, standing in formation, and pointing guns at neighborhood kids doing activities that have been tradition for decades. Gentrification is violence. Photos from Aldo Toledo, SJ Mercury News.

wtf

There’s a Twitter thread with a lot of video. The event is the hill bomb, where skaters ride down the hill by Dolores park. This is legendary event in skate culture, since the 1980s at least.

Tweet by @aldot29

“Here’s another view of what’s going on here at Dolores. Some police pointing non lethal rubber bullet launchers at Hillbomb attendees.”