Arrest in Bob Lee Case Has Upended Tech Narrative of San Francisco – The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO After the stabbing death last week of Bob Lee, an entrepreneur and creator of Cash App, in a San Francisco neighborhood popular among technology workers, prominent tech executives including Elon Musk tore into the city s leaders.

Matt Ocko, a venture capitalist, said San Francisco officials had Mr. Lee s literal blood on their hands. Others suggested that homelessness and violence run amok were to blame.

But that narrative was upended on Thursday when the police arrested Nima Momeni, who they said knew Mr. Lee and worked in the same industry. Ever since Mr. Momeni was identified, other voices in the tech world have hit back at those who used Mr. Lee s death to malign the city on social media.

I suspect we ll find that this story doesn t represent anything universal about the great city of San Francisco,  said Jeff Lawson, chief executive of the tech communications company Twilio, whose offices are just a few blocks from where Mr. Lee was killed. Rather, it is a tragic aberration, the result of an interpersonal conflict the kind that can happen in any city and time.

via www.nytimes.com

We’ve visited SF a few times since it allegedly had died. It seemed ok to me, but we weren’t in the worst areas. I don’t doubt its public policies are a corrupt and utter mess, but there’s a lot of ruin in a great city. I hope the City by the Bay makes it out of the sink it’s in.