{"id":1133721,"date":"2021-12-20T10:34:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T15:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1133721"},"modified":"2021-12-20T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T15:34:50","slug":"former-republican-san-francisco-mayoral-candidate-attacked-at-home-by-knife-wielding-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-republican-san-francisco-mayoral-candidate-attacked-at-home-by-knife-wielding-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Republican San Francisco Mayoral Candidate Attacked at Home by Knife-Wielding Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-republican-san-francisco-mayoral-candidate-attacked-at-home-by-knife-wielding-woman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1133721&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tenderloin-Associated-Press-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former Republican San Francisco mayoral candidate Richie Greenberg reported that he was attacked on Friday night in his home by an apparently mentally ill woman wielding a knife and claiming that the property was hers.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/Former-S-F-political-candidate-recounts-being-16714766.php\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"23\">\n<p>Greenberg said he stepped outside his door Friday night to find a woman sitting on the top step of his home on Lake Street in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>He asked her to leave, and the woman said \u201cI\u2019m going to cut you, b\u2014,\u201d Greenberg said. She claimed that property was hers, he said, leading him to believe that, \u201cThis is someone that\u2019s not all with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video shows a disheveled looking woman in a heavy coat raising her hand holding what appears to be a knife as Greenberg shouts at her to leave and apparently calls the police. The woman repeatedly kicks at the partially open door as he moves inside.<\/p>\n<p>Greenberg said the woman swatted at him with the knife and with her other hand knocked away a box he was holdingbefore knocking the box away with her other hand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Greenberg was apparently unhurt and the woman was arrested Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The attack is just the latest in a series of crimes in the city resulting from vagrancy and lawlessness. many residents have left the city \u2014 or the state \u2014 as a result of the crime and disorder, which predates the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Greenberg made an issue of the crime wave in his unsuccessful 2018 campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2019\/08\/20\/san-francisco-homelessness-crisis-escalates-politicians-pass-buck\/\">noting<\/a> that the passage of Proposition 46 by the state\u2019s voters in 2014 made many serious crimes into misdemeanors and removed the threat of prosecution from ordinary crimes.<\/p>\n<p>He has since helped <a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2021\/04\/19\/second-group-emerges-with-campaign-to-recall-sf-district-attorney-chesa-boudin\/\">lead<\/a> efforts to recall radical left-wing District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who came to office promising not to prosecute petty crimes such as public urination, even though those crimes have made life in the city intolerable for many.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor London Breed, who promised to defund the police budget by $120 million last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/14\/watch-san-francisco-mayor-drops-defund-the-police-calls-bullst-on-progressive-police-policies\/\">reversed<\/a> herself last week and announced a request for more police funding as she declared a \u201cstate of emergency\u201d in the city\u2019s crime-ridden Tenderloin district.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Republican San Francisco mayoral candidate Richie Greenberg reported that he was attacked on Friday night in his home by an apparently mentally ill woman wielding a knife and claiming &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}