Shawn Wen

We don't know all the facts.

The department will update the public and the commission when we do and would discourage people from reading the fear-mongering and the politicization and things on Twitter, including things by the CEO of Twitter.

So I got home, I went to bed, and woke up to dozens, maybe over a hundred negative responses and mentions directly in emails, including threats.

Police commission meetings are taped.

And unbeknownst to Benedicto, his comments were cut into a short video clip and tweeted out by a local news outlet called the San Francisco Standard.

It had gotten, I think, upwards of one or two million views.

I since joked, I watched my remarks back to make sure that I didn't confess to the murder.

Because why else would someone be threatening me and threatening my family?

I had one that said, I hope your mom gets stabbed.

And let's see if you say we should wait and see when it's your mom that gets stabbed.

One of the people to jump on him was Jason Calacanis, a prominent venture capitalist.

He tweeted in all caps and with minimal punctuation, These are the lunatics running San Francisco.

Evil, incompetent fools and grifters who accomplish nothing except enabling rampant violence.

Vote them out.

I really do feel empathy for their immediate fear and anxiety when there's violence that strikes into our community, particularly if it's sort of a subset of a community that you belong to.

San Francisco is home to many tech companies.

There are many tech workers.

And so to feel that anxiety, I totally empathize that.

But it really felt quite distasteful to be sort of jumping to conclusions.

Benedicto's empathy was not necessarily returned.