By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix
Update, Tuesday 5:15 p.m.: More from the Bay Guardian on Monday’s Google bus protest and on the union organizer who, apparently on his own, decided to act the part of the enraged Google employee telling anti-eviction activists they need to get out of San Francisco: “Why’d you do it?” we ask fake Google employee Max Bell Alper.
We posted earlier on this morning’s Google bus protest in the Mission District: San Francisco “Displacement” Activists Take to Street and Block a Google Bus. Then our attention was drawn to a San Francisco Bay Guardian video of a great moment of street theater the protest provoked: an angry man confronting the activists. We updated our original post with the video and the following description:
“…Let’s show the only thing most people will remember about the protest: The San Francisco Bay Guardian video of an angry apparent Google employee, who declares he’s lived in the city for six months, who urges the activists to just get out of the bus’s way. ‘Why don’t you go to a city where you can afford it [the rent],’ he tells one of protesters. ‘This is a city for the right people who can afford it. If you can’t afford it, it’s time for you to leave.’ ”
Valleywag described the confrontation as “almost comically repulsive.”
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