Shawn Wen
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Hey, it's the police.
Yeah, the police is there for you.
Can you see that?
This recording is from his body camera.
The video, I should say, is awful.
You can see Officer Jackson come upon this body collapsed on the sidewalk.
It's a man.
He looks completely helpless.
He's gone pale and is struggling to breathe.
Officer Jackson pulls up the victim's shirt to reveal stab wounds and blood on his chest.
He starts cutting off the victim's clothes.
A few hours later, the man would be pronounced dead of multiple stab wounds to the chest and heart.
The police don't know it yet, but the victim is Bob Lee, a successful tech executive and programmer who had a hand in creating many popular tech products.
He worked at Google on the Android phone.
He was CTO of Square, the payment company, and he founded Cash App, an incredibly popular tool for sending or receiving money via smartphone.
He was respected and well-liked in the tech industry.
His death would send shockwaves through the community.
What happened following this moment was unlike anything I've ever seen in San Francisco.
It took nine days for the police to arrest a suspect.
In those nine days, very little was even said about the investigation.