Will Bay to Breakers break the bay area?

The centennial Bay to Breakers is just around the corner. Neighborhood associations, city officials and San Francisco residents have been planning relentlessly to make the race an outrageously fun cultural experience, just a bit safer and cleaner than in past years. Jarie Bolander, president of the North Panhandle Neighborhood Association, teamed up with eight other organizations to create the Neighborhood Task Force on the 100th Bay to Breakers to improve and help preserve the event. Let’s find out what neighbors in North Panhandle and Western Addition had to say about the task force.

Update: man with anti-Obama sign attacked in North Panhandle

A man who set up a table of anti-Obama political literature was attacked in North Panhandle on Monday, April 4. The man was holding up a sign depicting the president with a Hitler mustache.

The man who was attacked had set up his table in front of the Bank of America at 1275 Fell Street.
Initial reports described the man to be an Obama supporter, but witnesses have identified the 29-year-old Daly City man to be an activist in support of Lyndon LaRouche, a left-wing politician who opposes the president.

“The initial story was incomplete as the Obama poster depicted the President with a moustache,” said Capt. Denis O’Leary of the Police Department’s Park Station. “That fact changed the theory of the motive in the attack.”

A man and woman approached him, tore one of the signs and shook the table, causing the political literature to fall to the ground.

One of the attackers kicked the victim in the hand, O’Leary said.

Witnesses described the attackers as a white woman with curly brown hair who is 5 feet 6 inches tall and an Asian man with long black hair wearing a gray baseball cap, dark jeans, and a gray sweatshirt, O’Leary told CBS News San Francisco.

“I went to the Bank of America and saw the poster of Obama with a Hitler mustache, but didn’t think much of it,” said Nopa resident Kate DeLaurentiis. “I definitely didn’t think the man would be attacked.”

The attackers have not been located and no arrests have been made. O’Leary encourages anyone with information to contact the police department’s anonymous tip line at (415) 575- 4444.