Could it happen here?

Of late I'm doing my utmost to practice proper phone etiquette, which for me boils down to not answering it very often. (An aside, do a google search for cell phone etiquette and be absolutely astounded by the pages upon pages of MSM coverage on this hot topic). This meant I had 12 messages to wade through this evening, one of which was a very excited one, from a man who witnessed this shooting.

A boy waiting for the K-Ingleside Muni Metro line at Ocean and Faxon Avenues in San Francisco's Ingleside neighborhood was shot tonight.

He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition, police said.

The shooting occurred at 6:10 p.m. There were reportedly two gunmen involved, and they ran from the scene, police said.

Many witnesses were at the scene, but gave police conflicting information about who the gunmen were and which way they fled, police said. Nobody has been taken into custody.

This means Randy is a shitty witness for not leading the po-po to the perps, but his "I was leaving the gym and gave first aid to a kid with a hole in his neck" experience will be good for several years' worth of anecdotes.

What else does this mean? Well, it was in Ingleside -- TNB, one Chron commenter commented -- and it's the first death in said neighborhood this year. The kid went to SF General, meaning he is/was in tough shape, and it's highly unlikely whoemever shot him will be found and/or prosecuted.

This happened a day after New York police detectives involved in the killing of an unarmed man received full acquittals; it's interesting to note the tenor of reactions in New York over the situation, which seems open-and-shut by my judgment: man is unarmed, man is shot 50 times by police, including one who, according to news reports, emptied a full clip before reloading and emptying the second one, man is wrongly dead.

I would venture to say SF is more racially-divided than New York; I would wager blacks here have less faith in the establishment than they do in New York; I would surmise that if that happened here, there'd be a full-on riot. Maybe?