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Subject: John Young

  • Bail reduction hearing postponed for Black Panther offshoot group

    June 12, 2007
  • SFPD Seeks Suspect in 1971 Slaying -- Grady from 'Sanford and Son'?

    There's no statute of limitations for murder, as evidenced by this wanted poster for accused cop-killer Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth. To the best of our knowledge, the poster is still hanging at Park Station in the city -- though Bridgeforth is accused of masterminding the murder of Sgt. John Young nearly 38 years ago. Intriguingly, Bridgeforth remains outstanding while eight of his alleged former Black Liberation Army accomplices were arrested two years ago for Young's slaying. Doubtless the fact

    March 9, 2009
  • Echoes of the Revolution

    The struggle between Bay Area law enforcement and the Black Panthers is still going on after 35 years

    November 15, 2006
  • Letters

    October 2, 1996
  • The Grid

    September 11, 1996
  • Brief Encounters

    Short subjects enliven the 19th Gay Film Fest

    June 7, 1995
  • Supervisors Push for Resolution Supporting Alleged Cop Killers

    San Francisco Eight, Board of Supervisors, Sophie Maxwell, Eric Mar, San Francisco Police Department, Sgt. John Young, Black Liberation Army, Black Panthers

    June 8, 2009
  • Union President: Supervisors' Resolution Supporting Alleged Cop Killers is 'Spitting in the Face of Every Cop in San Francisco'

    The Ingleside police station, where Sgt. John V. Young was killed in 1971The president of San Francisco's police union railed against supervisors Eric Mar and Sophie Maxwell today for their sponsorship of a resolution asking that charges be dropped against the seven men charged with killing a city police sergeant in 1971.Gary Delagnes of the San Francisco Police Officers Association said the resolution, which he characterized as "idiotic," is "going to send a pretty devastating message to the me

    June 8, 2009
  • Supes' Resolution Links Arrest of Alleged Cop-Killers to Iraq Torture Scandals

    Sgt. John V. YoungIf leftist supervisors sought to show the world that their sympathy for a group of alleged cop-killers in San Francisco was more than a zany political stunt, they have done themselves no favors with a new resolution that links the men's arrest to the Bush Administration, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib.The resolution, which will be reviewed this afternoon by the supes' Government Audit and Oversight Committee, urges California Attorney General (and presumed 2010 gubernatorial

    June 11, 2009
  • Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of General Strike Falls Amid Renewed Police-Labor Feud

    See you on the waterfrontThis Sunday, July 5, San Francisco's International Longshore and Warehouse Union will hold a procession to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Bloody Thursday, the clash between police and striking longshoremen during the city's 1934 General Strike that led to a permanent local rift between cops and stevedores.The San Francisco Labor Council is also going to be joining in the festivities, and is spreading the word about the event through its e-mail list. When we got one

    July 2, 2009
  • Time Bomb

    September 16, 2009
  • S.F. taxpayers may be struck with the legal tab for a failed Ingleside murder case

    September 23, 2009
  • It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

    Justin PageStay classy, San Francisco​Witness intimidation! Religious and sexual harassment! Bacteria-infested sandwiches! If that's the week it was, we're extra glad it's Friday. Also, time for a quiz: 1. Which of the following epithets did Assemblyman Tom Ammiano shout when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sauntered into a Democratic event in San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel? A. "I wish it was a tumor!" B. "Out, Nazi! Achtung! C. "Kiss my gay ass!" D. "Shit! He is back!" 2. Seven men -- and, later,

    October 9, 2009