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(41,818 posts) Thu Oct 30, 2014, 06:31 PM Oct 2014

40 arrests, 2 shootings in Giants fan revelry

Forty people were arrested Wednesday night in San Francisco as street celebrations of the Giants’ third World Series win in five seasons devolved into drunken debauchery and occasional violence, police officials said Thursday.

As bonfires burned and people painted graffiti and set off fireworks, officers arrested 29 people on suspicion of being drunk in public. Three people were booked for an alleged assault and two were busted for illegal gun possession, police said.

“To the fans who came to San Francisco and celebrated like we’ve been there before, God bless ya, hope you had a good time,” Police Chief Greg Suhr said at a news conference. “To the clowns that came to San Francisco to act out, I guess you just don’t know what it’s like to have a good time without being a jerk, and we had a lot of them last night.”

Many of those arrested, Suhr noted, were from outside the city.

There were also two shootings after the baseball game, Suhr said. One person was shot in the arm near 21st and Valencia streets, and second person walked into San Francisco General Hospital with a gunshot wound that he said occurred near 16th and Bryant streets. However, police were unable to confirm that location through Shotspotter, the gunfire detection system.

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-picks-up-the-pieces-after-raucous-Giants-5858132.php