Creator Shelby Steele’s automobile damaged into in San Francisco, $30K price of digital camera gear stolen
Hoover Institution member and conservative author Shelby Steele became a victim of the San Francisco crime crisis when his car was broken into and burgled on Wednesday.
The burglary happened around 11 a.m. on Hyde Street and Lombard Street in the Russian Hill neighborhood. Steele’s son Eli said on Twitter that they walked just 10 minutes from the vehicle before it was broken into.
Pictures posted by Eli show his father gazing solemnly at the broken windows of their rental car. Eli estimated that they lost between $25,000 and $30,000 worth of equipment, not counting damage to the vehicle. The couple had been filming a documentary about San Francisco at the time.
Eli also claimed he was hung up on twice by 911 when reporting the crime.
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Eli estimated that they lost between $25,000 and $30,000 worth of equipment, not counting the damage to the car.
“The SF police are doing nothing,” Eli wrote on Twitter. “It’s so bad my friend is calling gang members for help.”
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When Eli arrived at the police station, he reportedly encountered more auto theft victims. He said he saw suspects checking cars in front of the train station until onlookers chased them away.
“We yelled at them. They pointed a gun at my friend,” Eli wrote on Twitter. “He is now submitting his report. Not a single police officer showed up.”
“People ask where that is. Up on famous Lombard Street,” Eli added. “One of the wealthiest neighborhoods in SF and America. I worked in dangerous neighborhoods for years and nothing like it.”
Twitter CTO Elon Musk responded to Steele’s tweet, telling him that Twitter employees in San Francisco were facing similar crimes.
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“Many Twitter employees are feeling unsafe coming into downtown SF for work and their car windows have been smashed,” Musk wrote. “Also, they got so little reaction from the police that they hardly bother to report crimes because nothing happens.”
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San Francisco Republican Party leader John Dennis told Fox News Digital he was “sad but not surprised” by the situation.
“The Steeles interviewed me in my yard for almost two hours yesterday for an upcoming documentary,” Dennis explained. “Sometime after I left my home, thieves showed the Steeles what San Francisco is about these days — victimizing decent, hard-working people.”
Pictures posted by Eli show his father looking solemnly at the damaged windows of their rental car.
“San Francisco is run by incompetents. Shelby and Eli Steele learned that straight away. It hurts to say that about the place I love to live in.” [in]but stay away from San Francisco until crime is curbed,” the statement continued.
The San Francisco Police Department told Fox News Digital they are currently investigating the crime.
“Officials have documented this incident,” said a spokesman. “No arrests were made. This is an active and ongoing investigation.”
