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Leeward

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In the early morning hours of April 4, 2023, not even ten full days ago, wealthy tech executive Bob Lee was stabbed to death in San Francisco. About 17 seconds later, the entire world was sure of one truth: some black homeless dude did it. No doubt about it at all. Nope. And they let the world know.

As we found out today, everything those SF-bashers (and billionaire tech bros like David Sacks and Jason Calacanis) were saying was absolutely wrong. The guy who killed him wasn’t black. He wasn’t homeless. In point of fact, he was someone the late Bob Lee knew very well. He was an entrepreneur here in the Bay Area. And he’s in jail awaiting trial for murder now, thanks to his arrest this very morning.

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