Giants Riot

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I am the law. I will fuck you up. You are San Francisco. You will fuck up your own city if you manage to win the World Series.

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I am San Francisco. I will wear skinny jeans. You are the cops. Fuck you.

On Monday, November 1, 2010, the San Francisco Giants won the world series against the Texas Rangers, bringing San Francisco its first-ever World Series win. In jubilation, the residents of black person ran into the streets to show their appreciation to the team. They did so by overturning buses, shooting each other, burning things, and taking over a donut shop. The Giants Riot has the honor of being the first riot in world history to be organized (as well as a riot can be) through social networks. People were checking into the riot on Foursquare and "#sfriot" was a top hashtag on Twitter. Flickr had a photo pool, and a tweetmap was made. Actual news ignored the riot until the next morning, so the only way to get information was on Twitter and through an online feed of the SF police scanner.

Happy Donut

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"We will bleed our last drop of blood to keep those donuts hot and fresh."

	“	"units, be advised, they are out of bear claws here at the happy donuts. south command, please advise. #sfriots"	„
	—@Vespa59 Steve Calderon

Several hours into the riot, radio traffic on the emergency bands started to center around a donut shop / Chinese restaurant called Happy Donut. The police repeatedly had to break up fights in the area but were beginning to be attacked themselves as rioters threw beer bottles on them from Happy Donuts. The donut shop had essentially been captured by the mob, and the police were beginning to worry, as evidenced by the distraught calls to Southern Command. After some time, the police managed to assemble a platoon-sized assault squad (augmented by borrowed police from San Mateo) and storm the donut shop. After heavy fighting, Happy Donuts was retaken and the bear claws and cheap coffee were secured to resupply the SFPD.

Prop 19

	“	"We have to honor (pitcher) Timmy Lincecum by passing (the measure to legalize marijuana) Proposition 19.	„
	—Patrick Steber, 31

On Twitter, concerns were expressed by the rioters that they might have a hard time waking up in the morning to vote. Why that is significant is that on the ballot was Proposition 19, the proposition to legalize marijuana for all users over 21 in California. Those participating in the riots were an important part of the effort to pass the law.

The Twitter users' worries proved well-founded. Proposition 19 failed 45-55 in the general election. If only the hipsters had been well-rested, they might have passed the bill. Instead, they were sleeping off the soreness of being beaten by police.

Gallery

PANIC IN THE STREETS OF SF About missing Pics

• they will fuck you up
  they will fuck you up
• Burning things and jumping on them
  Burning things and jumping on them
• Lincecum makes me cum
  Lincecum makes me cum
• "Mission: Retake Happy Donuts. Justifiable use of force authorized."
  "Mission: Retake Happy Donuts. Justifiable use of force authorized."

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• Out after midnight? Scandalous!
  Out after midnight? Scandalous!
• Party on a bus
  Party on a bus
• Bus party
  Bus party
• SFUCK COPS
  SFUCK COPS
• SFUCK COPS MORE
  SFUCK COPS MORE
• Hardcore burnt mattress
  Hardcore burnt mattress
• I'm Mayor of this riot
  I'm Mayor of this riot
• "Son, this is what we do when we win baseball games."
  "Son, this is what we do when we win baseball games."
• GO GIANTS! DON'T GO PUBLIC SERVICES!
  GO GIANTS! DON'T GO PUBLIC SERVICES!
• Sweet ride. Let's destroy it.
  Sweet ride. Let's destroy it.
• WORLD SERIES WIN!
  WORLD SERIES WIN!
• Civic pride.
  Civic pride.
• World Series trophy
  World Series trophy
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• kid climbing on a graffiti-bombed bus
  kid climbing on a graffiti-bombed bus
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• it's the fuzz
  it's the fuzz
• Even the Internet cares
  Even the Internet cares

Police reaction

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Son, don't you think about celebrating your team win.

	“	"We're just going to let it burn and try not to antagonize the crowd."	„
	—sf police scanner

	“	"Unit 4-300, you keep pressing your emergency button. Please respond."	„
	—police scanner

	“	"4-92, we now have a fire that looks like a garbage can at 4th and King"	„
	—cops

	“	"We currently have no medics available."	„
	—police scanner

	“	"I've got a dog with me."	„
	—Lonely cop

	“	"He's got a plastic samurai sword, and he's half out of his mind here." "Race?" "W/M with scruffy beard and dark hair."	„
	—da fuzz

	“	Everyone was very happy last night, and even happy people sometimes need a police presence	„
	—SFPD spokeswoman Lt. Lyn Tomioka

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Understandably, the police were quite stressed. There weren't enough police to go around, rioters were throwing bottles at them, they were being shot at, Happy Donut was occupied by rioter scum, their cars were getting broken into, and their assault rifles were getting stolen. The harried dispatchers decided to allow "justifiable use of force," which is demonstrated in the photograph at right.

Rioter reaction

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World's first riot organized on social networks.

	“	You know what.... People need to stop with insensitive #sfriots jokes, esp. if you don't live in SF. It's actually a serious situation.	„
	—@themaria (Maria Ogneva)

	“	It's not all bullets and tears: Live jazz band playing at 18th and Valencia #sfriots	„
	—@garrytan (Garry Tan)

	“	All these hipsters rioting late into the night have me worried. Who will be there to serve my coffee come morning? #sfscanner #sfriots	„
	—@mat ("apocryphal mat honan")

	“	Dear San Francisco, ima let you finish but race riots are the greatest riots of all time, regards, Oakland. #SFRiots	„
	—@tuttle88

	“	OH about the #SFriots: "How do you set an electric car on fire??"	„
	—@dens (Dennis Crowley)

	“	@fejimanz, is there a small brown leather backpack in the #SFRiots #LostandFound? lost on Market and Powell.	„
	—@HallieSills (Hallie-Marie Sills)

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This riot was the world's first riot to be organized (insofar as a riot can be) via social networks. #sfriots was the top hashtag on Twitter during the riots, and rioters checked in through Foursquare. Yes, Foursquare. The Giants Riot had a Mayor. Videos made it to YouTube and pictures made it to Flickr before the riot was even half over, thanks to 3G internet on smartphones. A few hours into the night, an official website had been created.

Here, we see a fight break out in a McDonald's during the riot. This particular fight happened because some lady cussed in front of some other chick's niglet. Everything fell apart as the rioters began to beat each other and record videos on their phones.