Comedy
A new witness who has come forward claims Oakland's New Parish nightclub owner Jason Perkins is the man who threatened to assault and burn people living in a homeless tent encampment in fliers anonymously distributed on Duboce Street in February.This witness, a former employee of Perkins, provided me with text message exchanges seemingly showing Perkins bragging about news coverage of his threatening fliers, which the witness claims Perkins himself taped to homeless people’s tents. In those text messages, Perkins also admits to brandishing a gun at a homeless man. That homeless man claimed he chased Perkins with a bat because Perkins had just pepper-sprayed him in the face. The former employee also claims Perkins asked him to recruit his friends to beat the homeless people after sundown.Perkins is prominent in the local music scene as he owns the venue Brick and Mortar Music Hall, and until he sold his shares a few days ago also owned the venue New Parish in Oakland.In February, the San Francisco Examiner was first to report a rash of fliers that were posted on homeless people’s tents along a skate park in South of Market, across the street from Brick and Mortar.“ATTN JUNKIE MOTHER FUCKERS … WE are SICK of watching you leave needles in our park, shitting in our park and STEALING AND THIEVING from children and innocent people in the Park,” the fliers left on tents on Feb. 9 read, which continued “IF YOU ARE STILL HERE AFTER DARK TONIGHT, the hunters will become the hunted. We will pound you, burn you, beat you, and fuck you up if you are within a 100 yards of this park starting after sun down tonight.”