A San Francisco-based activist is trying to crowdfund his move from the Tenderloin neighborhood, which he likens to a “zombie apocalypse” and says it’s become uninhabitable.
“Every night I fall asleep to the sound of sirens. Every morning I wake up to people screaming,” Darren Mark Stallcup told Fox News. “My apartment has been broken into more than three times in the last year. I had to fend off burglars with my own two hands.”
Darren Mark Stallcup shares videos of what he calls the “fentanyl genocide” in San Francisco. The 26-year-old is now crowdfunding to move out of the city’s notorious Tenderloin area. (Screenshots courtesy of @darren_stallcup/Twitter)
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Stallcup has been documenting San Francisco’s drug and homelessness crisis for years on Twitter, sharing videos of streets littered with trash, people overdosing on drugs or acting erratically, violent arguments, shoplifting and more.
“I have two jobs, but as you and I both know, this Biden economy makes everything very expensive and it seems like moving is prohibitive,” said the 26-year-old Bay Area native. His videos have gotten thousands of comments online, so he thought he’d see if people might be willing to “contribute five bucks” to help him move.
Stallcup started GoFundMe with the goal of raising $6,000 to cover the first and last month of rent in a new home and moving expenses. By Thursday morning, around $1,400 had been raised.
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He wants to move to a safer area but said he won’t be leaving San Francisco entirely.
“I could possibly be the last Republican in San Francisco and I can’t leave the ship. Only rats leave a sinking ship,” he said. “And I have a feeling that if I leave San Francisco, I’m going to let these corrupt Democrats win.”
Overdose deaths have skyrocketed in San Francisco, and the tenderloin is believed to be the epicenter of the region’s fentanyl crisis. Mayor London Breed declared the area a state of emergency in 2021, but little has improved since then.
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San Francisco recorded 647 drug overdose deaths last year, a slight increase from 2021, and is on track to surpass that number again this year. According to the coroner’s office, one-fifth of the deaths occurred in the tenderloin.
A homeless man sleeps on the street during the state of emergency declared by Mayor London Breed in 2021. (Michael Ho Wai Lee/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire)
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“It seems my apartment building is surrounded by dead bodies and feces [matter]”Needles, crack tubes, tents,” Stallcup said. “I personally witnessed a fentanyl genocide.”
“I struggle with both my physical health and my mental health, even my spiritual health, because I’m regularly surrounded by chaos and death,” he added.
To hear more from Stallcup, click here.
Hannah Ray Lambert is Associate Producer/Writer at Fox News Digital Originals.
