Booing the mayor isn’t political violence

Let me just say for the permanent record that the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Moscone are a bit different than a group of neighborhood activists booing the mayor.

A recent Chronicle oped, by Bernal Heights Yimby Ruth Ferguson, goes to extraordinary lengths to suggest that opposition to the mayor’s new zoning plan is somehow rooted in a culture of political violence in San Francisco. Ferguson notes, in a column titled “In San Francisco, the risk of political violence hits closer to home than we’d care to admit:”

San Francisco’s political identity has been shaped by brutal, ideologically motivated crimes. In 1978, Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were gunned down by their own Board of Supervisors colleague. In 1975, a shooter nearly assassinated President Gerald