S.F. deputy sheriffs’ union spent nearly $30K to advertise debunked narrative of social worker’s stabbing

In the days after social worker Alberto Rangel was stabbed to death at a Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital clinic in December, the deputy sheriffs’ union shelled out thousands to flood social media with posts that cast the deputy on site as a hero. The union spent $29,549 to promote one of those posts across Meta platforms, financial records reviewed by Mission Local show.