SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A trio of males who stormed workplaces at San Francisco Metropolis Corridor earlier this month claiming they have been DOGE workers have been apparently YouTube pranksters. The three males barged their approach into a number of Metropolis Corridor workplaces on Friday, Feb. 14, demanding entry to workplace computer systems and sporting clothes that implied they have been a part of Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE).
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Workplace, which investigated the incident, mentioned the lads have been “verbally aggressive, insulted staff, and were unable to produce any form of identification.” Workers at Metropolis Corridor refused the lads’s request and contacted regulation enforcement.
The sheriff’s workplace despatched the next assertion to KRON4, saying San Francisco prides itself on its “dedication to freedmon of speech and expression.”
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Workplace expects to finish its investigation quickly into the two/14/25 incident at Metropolis Corridor after video surfaced final evening exhibiting that the people impersonating DOGE have been engaged in a “prank” for the good thing about YouTube notoriety. Whereas some Metropolis workers could have been involved by the disruption to their work, it’s essential to keep in mind that San Francisco prides itself on its dedication to freedom of speech and expression.
The behaviors of the people underneath investigation went past courteous interactions with Metropolis staff and legislative employees, and have been carried out in areas the place Metropolis workers have an expectation of private workspace security.
As revealed within the footage, our Metropolis employees stays dedicated to being pleasant, approachable, and hard-working, and we don’t recognize those that interact in harassing habits to serve their very own political agendas. It’s a crime to intervene with public enterprise, underneath Penal Code 602.1b; those that deliberately impede our workers’ efforts to serve our residents and guests could also be topic to arrest.”
San Francisco Sheriff’s Workplace
The three males fled Metropolis Corridor previous to the sheriff’s arrival.
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Now it appears the entire incident could have been nothing greater than a YouTube prank.
On Monday, YouTube prankster Danny Mullen, whose channel boasts greater than 844,000 subscribers, posted a video on his web page titled, “Fake DOGE Raids in San Francisco (Liberal Meltdown).”
Within the video, Mullen is seen sporting a “Dogecoin” t-shirt and making an attempt to order a Metropolis Corridor worker to let him put a thumb drive into a pc. The video then cuts to scenes of Mullen and certainly one of his associates exterior Metropolis Corridor speaking about Musk’s DOGE group and their controversial workforce of younger tech staffers to focus on what they see as wasteful spending in authorities.
Within the video, Mullen and one other particular person additionally wearing outrageous “DOGE” attire are seen accosting staff within the constructing.
“What are you working on today?” Mullen, in character, calls for to know from one Metropolis Corridor worker. “Sending tampons to dolphins in Timbuktu?”
The clips of Mullen and his group in Metropolis Corridor are intercut with clips of Trump administration officers, together with Musk, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, and President Donald Trump himself.
Metropolis Corridor staffers within the video appeared largely nonplussed by the calls for of the pretend DOGE staff.
“Ya’ll mind just getting out?” when employee will be heard telling them. “Is this seriously what you all do?”
“I don’t know what you guys are doing here?” says one other employee.
Later within the video, Mullen and his affiliate are seen reacting to media protection of the stunt.
When the incident initially occurred, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Workplace informed KRON4 they “did not believe the individuals requesting access to City files were representatives of DOGE.”
