Another Random SF Street Murder - But Apparently It Wasn’t

Department of I Told You So -- The tragic murder of tech executive Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco was widely portrayed in the local press (that's you SF Chronicle and SF Standard and TV news shows) and the national media as the latest example of the city's "crazy dystopia," as one tech industry mogul put it. But as I told friends, Lee's stabbing in a pre-dawn hour smelled to me like a personal attack -- not a random killing by a crazed homeless person as it was alleged.

Now it turns out that the primary SFPD suspect in the murder is another tech executive, Nima Momeni, a friend of Lee's who was riding with him in the same car. Will the tech industry -- and the press -- now apologize for accusing San Francisco of descending into wanton violence?

I can just as well accuse the tech industry and its political and media patrons of laying waste to this once beautiful city. As I told San Francisco tech billionaire Ron Conway -- who helped put Ed Lee and then London Breed in the mayor's office -- at a recent tech forum, this broken city is on you. The tech industry and its political puppets evicted thousands of people, aggravated the homeless crisis they love to complain about, and resist paying their fair share of taxes -- public money that could be used to build affordable housing and make this city healthy again.

Will tech billionaires like Michael Moritz -- who bought himself a news daily that rails against the homeless (the Standard) and recently penned a column in the New York Times wailing that San Francisco has gone to the dogs (without taking any responsibility for the mess) -- now take a genuinely progressive direction and back the political leaders and activists who can turn around the city? Don't hold your breath. The tech industry would rather whine about SF -- even when the blood is spilled by one of their own.

Murder suspect Nima Momeni and victim Bob Lee