SF: Groping Allegation Threatens to Damage Supervisor Candidacy of Manny Yekutiel

A man has come forward with an allegation of sexual assault or battery against cafe owner and rising political figure Manny Yekutiel, which was reported to police but which did not result in any arrest or charges.

The allegations, which were reported Tuesday by the SF Standard, were brought by Brad Joseph Chapin, a political activist and former board member of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club — a fact that brings with it its own whiff of political motivations, because the club has endorsed Yekutiel's opponent in the District 8 supervisor race, Gary McCoy.

Chapin says that on the night of February 21, 2020, he attended what sounds like a small sex party at a Mission District apartment. It's described only as "a small gathering in the Mission home of a couple he knew well," and Chapin says he went looking for the couple who lived there, in their bedroom, but they turned out to be in an adjoining bathroom.

In the bedroom, though, was a man by himself, "wearing a beanie and sweating." Chapin would only later recogize this man as Yekutiel, and he claims that Yekutiel approached him aggressively, "stuck one of his hands down my pants and grabbed me and was squeezing me and intentionally causing pain."



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