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   From: pothead@snakebite.com   
      
   On 2024-03-14, Leroy N. Soetoro  wrote:   
   > Carrying a 12-pack of toilet paper under his arm, an adolescent boy yelled   
   > as he hopped through a crowd of people smoking fentanyl and selling stolen   
   > goods after dark near the corner of Seventh and Market streets in the   
   > Tenderloin.   
   >   
   > “It’s popping out here,” he exclaimed in a squeaky voice, plopping the   
   > rolls of toilet paper on the sidewalk for sale. Though the boy stood no   
   > more than 5 feet tall, nobody in the crowd seemed to question what a   
   > middle-school-age child was doing alone at night in San Francisco’s most   
   > troubled neighborhood.   
   >   
   > This corner of Market Street, opposite United Nations Plaza, has long been   
   > the epicenter of San Francisco’s drug and homelessness crises. Hundreds of   
   > people have overdosed within a few block radius of this spot over the past   
   > five years, more than anywhere else in the city. Since last June, police   
   > have made over 2,300 drug-related arrests in the surrounding neighborhood.   
   >   
   > But little has been said about the existence of children as young as 13   
   > years old among the dealers and street vendors. Their presence in the   
   > plaza is an open secret among city officials, nonprofit workers and   
   > inhabitants of the area, according to The Standard’s own on-the-ground   
   > reporting.   
   >   
   > Some kids are brought to the Tenderloin after dark by their parents, who   
   > are buying or selling stolen goods. Others are going at it alone—hawking   
   > everything from makeup to toilet paper, which is often stolen—or even   
   > dealing drugs.   
   >   
   > Data from the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department shows police   
   > arrested 57 youths between the ages of 13 and 17 on suspicion of dealing   
   > drugs between August 2023 and Feb. 8. The department said that 55 of the   
   > 57 teens came from outside of the city.   
   >   
   > The department declined to provide further data on these children’s cities   
   > of origin, their ages, demographic backgrounds or the locations of their   
   > arrests. Court records about cases involving juveniles are not normally   
   > available to the public, and requests to view redacted copies were denied.   
   >   
   > But anecdotally, nonprofit workers and city employees said they’ve seen an   
   > uptick in young people dealing drugs and stolen goods in the Tenderloin   
   > since the pandemic began in 2020.   
   >   
   > “Sometimes you see groups of kids,” said Cheryl Thornton, an urban health   
   > worker who mentors youth in the Bayview and Potrero Hill neighborhoods. “I   
   > see them all around the Tenderloin.”   
   >   
   > https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/07/san-francisco-kids-selling-drugs-stolen-   
   > goods/   
      
   In NYC MS-13 is partnering with the newly arrived Venezuelan gangs to sell   
   fake ID's and paperwork   
   to the illegal migrants.   
      
   This is just the start of the nightmare.   
      
   Thank you Joe Biden.   
      
      
   --   
   pothead   
   Tommy Chong For President 2024.   
   Crazy Joe Biden Is A Demented Imbecile.   
   Impeach Joe Biden 2022.   
      
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