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The death of Cash App creator Bob Lee earlier this month set off a rash of complaints about crime rates in San Francisco, with everyone from venture capitalists to Elon Musk using the news to further their narrative about the city’s ineffective law enforcement.
On Thursday, the news that Lee knew—and may have been riding in a car with—his attacker upended that narrative. Yet many of the original Twitter commentators stayed silent.
On April 5, San Francisco police reported that they had responded to a report of a stabbing at around 2:35 a.m the day before and found a “43-year-old adult male victim suffering from apparent stab wounds.” The victim was later identified as Lee, who was visiting the city after recently relocating to Miami.