By amberridgdill on Skatehive
I woke up this morning, to reports of police and skaters facing off in the Mission Dolores Park area of San Francisco. At first I thought, "Well that's not so uncommon. Police and skaters have a long a sordid history of facing off." As it turns out, a skateboarding event had been planned in which skaters would take part in a "hill bomb" competition to see who could get the fastest time down the hill. It's generally understood that skateboarders assume the risks of going high speeds on a tiny thing with little to no protection, and if someone wants to do extremely dangerous things with their body well... that's on them. — Kerith Burke (@KerithBurke) July 12, 2017 More than a hundred skateboarders took over Dolores tonight to fly down one of the biggest hills in San Francisco (this is the bottom). pic.twitter.com/nkghFf9aZS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qISbokOgnbA (video courtesy of The Mint Skateboarding) The atmosphere of the event soon changed as local police began directing traffi