A television crew from the Czech Republic was robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco.
Three armed men exited a vehicle and demanded the journalists’ production equipment.
One of the journalists, Bohumil Vostal, shared that the crew was in San Francisco for the “US President’s summit with the Chinese leader.”
Vostal told the San Francisco Chronicle that the armed men were “heading at my camera man, aiming a gun at his stomach, and one at my head.”
Officials also recently cleared out homeless encampments in the city in preparation for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit.
A homeless man told the Daily Mail, “The police just told me that there’s a major conference, that the president is coming, and asked if we could stay away for a week.”
“They took everything, my tent, my cell phone… I’ve got to start all over. I could have cursed them out, but it ain’t do me no good,” he said.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) admitted that the clean-up is for the “fancy leaders coming into town.”
“I know folks say, ‘Oh, they’re just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town. That’s true, because it’s true,” he said. “But it’s also true that for months and months and months prior to APEC we’ve been having different conversations.
