Regardless of the outcome of the next trial, some important voices from within skateboarding are acknowledging that the sport needs to put the brakes on glorifying conflicts with security workers and get back to what Eisenhour described as “certain guidelines” that can minimize “the odds of conflict - and keeping the disruption to a minimum so the spot can still be used by others.” “What happens to Jesse doesn’t change anything,” Amanda Jansen said when asked how she felt after the mistrial. Jansen’s family is less focused on the outcome of the trial than on his struggles with the injuries. “It’s unfortunate for everybody, horrible for the security guard.” “Everything just came to a head that day and he just lost his cool just for a split second and Jesse happened to be standing there,” Rappaport said. He said Jansen overreacted in the heat of the moment. Prosecutors have set a new court date for September.Ī lawyer for Vieira, Doug Rappaport, said the altercation and Jansen’s injury were the result of a series of unfortunate events. He pleaded not guilty and claimed self-defense. Vieira was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury and battery with serious bodily injury. 10, the police in San Francisco arrested Jesse Vieira, a professional skateboarder, in connection with the confrontation with Jansen. “And we’ve asked them to leave and they’re not, and it’s getting out of hand. “There’s 10, 15 skateboarders on the property, on the sidewalk,” the colleague says on a recording. The previous day, a colleague had called the police because of a resistant group of them. Jansen had dealt with skateboarders many times before. Within seconds, he was lying unconscious in a pool of his urine.Ī post shared by THRASHER MAGAZINE on at 7:02pm PST That is when the situation turned violent. At one point, Jansen picked up a skateboard and tossed it into the street. Just as quickly, skaters removed the barriers, and an increasingly tense show of force from both sides ensued. Within minutes, a security guard who had worked at 555 California for 12 years, Dan Jansen, arrived to shoo them out, moving steel barriers in front of the area where the skaters wanted to do their tricks. In November, a group of skaters descended upon the plaza.
With its low, stone walls and steps lined with steel banisters, the plaza has served as an ideal stage for the skateboarding videos that proliferate on the internet, attracting skaters from across the region to a spot where skateboarding is prohibited. The open area outside 555 California Street in San Francisco is known as Black Rock to skateboarders, who turned this otherwise unexceptional corporate plaza into a magnet for the sport beginning in the 1990s.
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