The San Francisco police officer who was critically injured Sunday in the line of duty has been identified, and so has the suspect who allegedly shot at police, who is a convicted felon out on parole.

A shootout between two robbery suspects and SFPD officers in the Bayview District Sunday night left one officer and one of the suspects with life-threatening injuries, and we now know the names of the wounded officer and the uninjured suspect who is in custody.

The San Francisco Police Officers Association launched a crowdfunding campaign Monday for injured SFPD Officer Brittney Taylor, a seven-year veteran of the force who is based at Southern Station and is assigned to overnight patrols there — known on the force as Southern Midnights.

"Please support SFPD Southern Midnight’s own Officer Brittney Taylor and her family by donating anything you can," the police union says. "Taylor has dedicated her career to serving and protecting the people of San Francisco, putting her life on the line for the city she loves. Today, she and her family need our support."

The campaign has so far raised over $75,000.

In an updated release Monday afternoon, the SFPD identified 36-year-old Norris Reed III as the suspect who was driving the vehicle in question, which crossed the Bay Bridge from Oakland into San Francisco — and police seem to have been on the lookout for the vehicle and were alerted to it, possibly from a license-plate reader.

After spotting the vehicle in the area of Fifth and Folsom streets in SoMa, police attempted to pull it over in the area of Mission and First streets, at which point the vehicle fled south into the Bayview.

The vehicle then reportedly became disabled in the area of Bayshore Boulevard and Jerrold Avenue, and Norris allegedly then opened fire on police officers with a semi-automatic weapon, striking Taylor multiple times.

Police returned fire, and the passenger in the vehicle was critically wounded. It's not clear whether the passenger, who has not been publicly identified, also fired shots or what charges they may face, and they remain hospitalized. Two firearms were recovered from the scene.

At a press conference Monday, per KRON4, Police Chief Derrick Lew said that officers on the scene provided emergency medical aid to both the passenger and to Taylor, and likely helped to save their lives.

Lew added that after meeting with officers to discuss the incident, "new and seasoned officers alike were shaken to the core" by what occurred.

The police union said in a statement, "This incident serves as a stark reminder of the dangers that police officers face every day while protecting the people of San Francisco. What began as an effort to stop a robbery suspect quickly escalated into a violent confrontation in which an officer was shot."

Taylor received a special commendation along with her partner in 2024 for apprehending a suspect in SoMa who was carrying a stolen and loaded gun as well as illegal narcotics, after first approaching him for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk.

Reed has been booked on charges including assault upon a peace officer with a semiautomatic firearm, reckless evading, resisting arrest, prohibited person in possession a firearm, assault a police officer with a deadly weapon to cause great bodily injury, and prisoner on parole.

Previously: Robbery Suspect and SFPD Officer Both Shot and Wounded In Gunfight In SF's Bayview District

A shootout between SFPD officers and a pair of robbery suspects Sunday night left both an officer and one of the suspects critically wounded, and the second suspect was arrested.

It's not clear what the original crime was that occurred, but according to a release from the SFPD, the department was alerted to a robbery suspect's vehicle heading into San Francisco via the Bay Bridge at around 10:29 pm Sunday.

Officers spotted the suspect vehicle traveling on Fifth Street in SoMa, near Folsom Street, and attempted to pull the car over in the area of Mission and First streets.

The vehicle proceeded to flee from officers and led them on a chase into the Bayview District, where the car reportedly "became disabled" in the area of Bayshore Boulevard and Jerrold Avenue.

"When officers encountered the vehicle, the driver opened fire on SFPD officers and struck one officer multiple times," the SFPD says. "During the encounter, an officer-involved shooting occurred."

The suspect who was driving the vehicle and allegedly fired the shots attempteed to flee the scene on the foot, the department says, but was apprehended nearby. The passenger in the vehicle sustained life-threatening injuries in the shootout.

SFPD officers recovered to guns following the shootout.

As Mission Local reports via ShotSpotter data, a total of 19 shots were fired from "high-capacity" weapons.

The police officers' union issued a statement Monday morning saying, "The San Francisco Police Officers Association is profoundly relieved to learn that the San Francisco police officer who was shot multiple times in the line of duty Sunday night is expected to survive. The officer is currently in surgery."

Neither the names of the suspects nor the officers involved have been released.

The incident will be investigated by the San Francisco Police Department Investigative Services Division, as well as the District Attorney's Office and the SFPD Internal Affairs Division.

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SFPD officers were filmed busting through the glass doors of Black Panther Apartments in West Oakland while serving a warrant on a suspect whom they had already arrested — instead of waiting to speak to management.

More than 20 officers from the San Francisco Police Department forced their way into the Black Panther Apartments in West Oakland last Thursday afternoon while serving a warrant connected to an 18-year-old robbery suspect who had already been detained outside the building, according to former Black Panther Elaine Brown, who runs and owns the complex, in a statement on social media.

Brown said the suspect did not live at the complex, and the police officers were aware he was not a resident there.

As KTVU reports, officers were looking for 18-year-old Jamil Butler in connection with two armed robberies in San Francisco. The SFPD said officers arrested Butler near the building after he allegedly tried to flee, and they recovered a firearm from him.

Video obtained by the outlet shows officers threatening to break down the doors before smashing through the entrance.

The building’s resident manager, Misty Cross, who’s a former Moms 4 Housing activist, told KTVU that officers arrived in plain clothes, refused to show security officers a warrant, and would not wait for her to come downstairs before breaking through the building’s glass entrance doors. Brown says officers also handcuffed a security guard on suspicion of obstruction.

Cross explained that some residents initially feared the raid involved federal immigration agents because of the officers’ appearance and the way they approached the property. She said several residents hid inside the building while children were returning home from school.

“During this time, parents and children going in and out of the building had to walk through the smashed glass all over the floor at the front door,” said Brown in her statement.

Per KTVU, the warrant authorized SFPD to search Butler and two locations tied to him, including an apartment inside the complex where police reportedly seized a pair of shoes and a jacket, among other items.

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said Saturday she was “deeply concerned” by reports and video of San Francisco police breaking into the affordable housing complex. Lee wrote on social media that she’s been in touch with Brown and the Oakland Police Department about the incident.

“At a moment, when trust between our communities and law enforcement remains fragile, incidents like this raise serious concerns,” says Lee. “I will continue to ask questions and monitor the process.”

According to Local News Matters, the SFPD said officers forced their way into the complex because of “exigent circumstances.” The Oakland Police Department did not respond to questions about whether it authorized or participated in the operation.

Brown filed a formal complaint with the Oakland Police Department against the SFPD alleging that officers’ actions constituted assault, vandalism, and false arrest and imprisonment, and it was a violation of the Fourth Amendment. Brown is demanding the department file criminal charges against the perpetrators.

Speaking to KTVU, Brown referred to the raid as “fascist tactics” and accused officers of using unnecessary force despite already having the suspect in custody.

“While The Black Panther complex, a building with 79, 100% affordable apartments, is a keystone to resurrection of the Black economic power of Harlem West, where Brown’s nonprofit is set to launch five cooperatively owned community businesses,” says Brown’s statement. “Brown believes Oakland is returning to the days of Tom Orloff with the current, appointed DA, and police have become emboldened to follow suit.”

Related: City Council Considers Renaming West Oakland Intersection After Former Black Panther Elaine Brown

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A male pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle Monday in the busy area of South Van Ness and Mission Street, which led to a large police response and the disruption of vehicle and transit traffic.

Mission Local reports from the scene that the victim was possibly unhoused, and the owner of the Picacho food truck that parks nearby said he believed that the victim was one of two men who hung around in the area and often bought horchata from him.

The driver of a F-250 or F-350 pickup truck reportedly cooperated with police at the scene.

Update: It was subsequently reported that a black Mercedes may have been the first vehicle to strike the man, and the driver reportedly fled the scene and was stopped by police a number of blocks away, on Potrero Avenue.

The collision happened around 3:30 pm or just before.

A white tent was set up over the body as an investigation took place, and the street was closed to traffic.

A news helicopter was flying overhead and the SF Department of Emergency Management put out an alert at 3:38 pm to avoid the area of Mission Street and South Van Ness Avenue due to police activity, but no further explanation was provided

The SFMTA subsequently posted to X that that the 14, 14R, and 49 buses were all blocked from travel between 13th Street and South Van Ness.

This is a developing story.

San Francisco police, looking to show off the drone technology that has been helping them to make arrests without engaging in unsafe chases, just released drone video of one recent pursuit and arrest.

The incident began with a mugging at a bus stop in the Sunset District. Officers were called to the scene of the 2200 block of Irving Street on the afternoon of April 1, after two suspects approached a female victim at the bus stop, snatched her purse and assaulted her, and fled into a waiting vehicle.

According to a release from the SFPD, the victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and police soon learned that a vehicle of the same description was allegedly involved in two auto burglaries at the Legion of Honor parking lot.

An SFPD drone was then able to locate the vehicle at the Palace of Fine Arts parking lot — another hot spot for bipping — where police say they observed the suspects casing vehicles and committing two more auto burglaries.

"As the vehicle fled the area, plainclothes officers maintained surveillance and developed an apprehension plan to safely take the suspects into custody," the department explains. The vehicle likely had to head down Lombard in order to get to the Bay Bridge,

The vehicle was subsequently disabled using spike strips near the intersection of Van Ness and Lombard, and as the suspects continued trying to flee, they were involved in three separate minor vehicle collisions, as seen in the video below.

The suspects' vehicle, now with flat tires, was unable to get uphill on Lombard east of Van Ness, and the suspects all jumped out without putting it in park, leaving it to roll backwards and cause another minor collision.

All four suspects tried to flee the area on foot, with two quickly arrested by police, and the other two apprehended following a foot pursuit.

A search of the vehicle turned up burglary tools as well as stolen property from the Irving Street incident, the Legion of Honor burglaries, and the Palace of Fine Arts burglaries, police say.

The suspects have been identified as 25-year-old Charles Eason of San Francisco, 22-year-old Jamaul Mullins of Pittsburg, 18-year-old Major Skinner of Oakland, and 25-year-old Daija Bartholomew of Antioch. They were booked on multiple charges including second-degree burglary, second-degree robbery, elder abuse, and possession of stolen property.

While arrests have been made, this is still an active investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the SFPD tip line at 415-575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with “SFPD.” Tipsters can remain anonymous.

The first three months of 2026 were significantly more murderous in San Francisco than the same three months a year earlier. There was, in fact, a 250% uptick in homicides, year over year, and SF Police Chief Derrick Lew is trying to emphasize that other types of crime remain down.

SFist has been tracking the alarming frequency of homicides in the city since early January, with an average of almost one killing per week happening in the first 10 weeks of the year. This followed on a year of record-low homicides in San Francisco, when the city saw fewer murders than any year since 1954.

SFPD Chief Derrick Lew addressed the sudden uptick at a presentation to the SF Police Commission last week, as the Chronicle is reporting, and he was trying to downplay the issue by showing that overall gun violence remains flat. Also, he said, the number car burglaries continues to decline, and crimes like assault and robbery are both down compared to last year's first quarter — by 10% and 33% respectively.

The gun violence stat appears to just be through January 2026, and the point Lew appeared to be making was that the same number of people are being shot, but more of those shootings have proved fatal in the first three months of this year. So, shooters just had better aim?

The homicide statistic on its own is alarming, given that homicides overall have been trending downward nationwide, as well as in San Francisco, since the first year of the pandemic. And if the trend holds past the first quarter, it puts the city on track to see the first uptick in homicides since 2021.

Doubly alarming is President Trump's casual recent mention that San Francisco's crime situation isn't improving fast enough.

"San Francisco. What a great city it was. A great city. Could quickly become a great city again. But, you know, they're going very slowly," Trump said, possibly inspired by longtime conservative and fellow sexual harasser Bill O'Reilly's strange NewsNation special shot during Super Bowl weekend, which aired the same day as Trump's comment.

Trump was originally gearing up to have federal agents invade the city back in October, when all crime stats were, in reality, down. But this is just political theater, of course, and part of his revenge campaign against progressive cities, and facts don't matter — that is, until, there's a provable fact like the current homicide uptick that aids his cause.

Chief Lew suggests that the SFPD will be doing more to get guns off the streets, in the hope of bringing the shooting stat down. And the department will otherwise be continuing its strategies that have brought other crime stats down, because "it’s worked."

Previously: San Francisco Now Averaging One Homicide Per Week In 2026, With Latest on Sixth Street

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An allegedly stolen vehicle that San Francisco police spotted and tried to pull over in SoMa Wednesday evening ended up being at the center of a chase that ended on the Bay Bridge.

The incident began with an attempted traffic stop near Mission and Eighth streets in San Francisco around 6:42 pm, as the Chronicle reports. The driver of the vehicle, which SFPD officers identified as stolen, took off and led officers on a chase, which continued onto the Bay Bridge amid rush-hour traffic.

The traffic might have been key to the ultimate arrest, as the male suspect ended up stopping the car on the middle of the bridge and climbing out onto the bridge structure in an act of desperation.

As KRON4 reports, police, with the help of CHP, were able to make an arrest.

"At this time, the suspect and the charges are not being released due to the active investigation," the SFPD said in a statement.

Motorists trying to cross the bridge toward the East Bay Wednesday night around 7 pm likely encountered the resulting traffic from the police activity.

While an arrest has been made, this is still an active investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the SFPD tip line at 415-575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with “SFPD.” Tipsters can remain anonymous.

Top image: Photo by Jack Nagz

Dozens of cyclists were spotted swerving in and out of traffic, riding directly at moving cars, and narrowly missing pedestrians before heading the wrong way up the ramp to the Bay Bridge — where they were greeted by the SFPD and CHP.

The San Francisco Police Department put out a pretty spectacular video of authorities detaining 85 cyclists who attempted to take over the Bay Bridge Saturday.

According to a press release from the California Highway Patrol, the CHP alerted the San Francisco Police Department Saturday about a large group of bicyclists driving recklessly on the streets of South of Market as they headed toward the Bay Bridge.

Using intelligence technology from the SFPD’s Real Time Investigations Center — presumably drones, Flock license plate readers, and public surveillance cameras, to name a few, authorities tracked the group as they rode en masse, reportedly weaving through traffic, riding toward moving vehicles, and coming close to hitting pedestrians.

The group then headed the wrong way up the Harrison Street off-ramp where authorities had blocked access to the bridge.

“What we saw yesterday was not harmless fun. This is no place for games or risky behavior,” said CHP San Francisco Captain Tim McCollister. “Riding the wrong way on the freeway poses a serious danger not only to cyclists but also to the motoring public traveling at freeway speeds.”

Officers detained 85 cyclists, seized their bikes, and then released them after giving them citations for riding a bicycle onto a freeway.

“Our priority is safety, and actions like this put lives at risk and disrupt critical transportation corridors,” said McCollister. “We will continue to enforce the law and hold individuals accountable to prevent a tragedy before it occurs.”

Related: 16 Vehicles Involved in Bay Bridge Sideshow Seized, Impounded

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An armed suspect connected to an assault barricaded themselves inside a unit at the Cadillac Hotel in SF’s Tenderloin District Tuesday, and the SFPD eventually took them into custody with the help of crisis negotiators.

As KTVU reports, authorities responded to a report of an assault on the 300 block of Eddy Street around 2 pm Tuesday, after which they discovered an armed suspect connected to the incident was barricaded inside a building on that same block.

According to KRON4, the suspect was located inside a room at the Cadillac Hotel, and officers from the San Francisco Police Department and a hostage crisis team worked to resolve the incident peacefully.

An AlertSF notification was sent out to residents around 3:15 pm to avoid the area of Eddy and Leavenworth streets. Traffic was reportedly closed on Eddy between Jones and Leavenworth streets, and a tactical medical team was also on the scene.

The situation was resolved and the area cleared a few hours later, according to a second alert at 6:12 pm.

KTVU reports that no other details were provided about the assault, and the investigation is ongoing.

Related: Man In Purple Ferrari Brandishes Gun, Barricades Himself Inside Nob Hill Building

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A witness at SFO Sunday filed a complaint that SFPD officers violated sanctuary laws by shielding ICE agents in plainclothes from bystanders who were asking them to identify themselves, as the ICE agents attempted to restrain a woman being deported with her young daughter.

Witness Nicole Killian filed a complaint with the California Department of Justice and the SF City Attorney, as Mission Local reports, alleging that SFPD officers assisted ICE agents who were restraining a mother and her daughter at San Francisco International Airport Sunday as they were being deported to Guatemala.

Attorneys knowledgeable about local sanctuary policies told Mission Local the actions of SFPD officers may have violated SF’s sanctuary ordinance as well as SFPD’s policy directives.

As SFist reported Monday, the arrest was not related to President Donald Trump’s recent directive to send ICE agents to some US airports amid the partial government shutdown — and SFO employs private contractors to manage security checkpoints, so therefore doesn't rely on federal TSA employees.

The Chronicle reports that the woman being restrained, Angelina Lopez-Jimenez, had tried to escape custody, and officials said she may have been detained elsewhere and was being transported through SFO. An immigration judge had reportedly issued a final order for Lopez-Jimenez and her daughter’s deportation seven years ago, in 2019.

Mission Local reports that a total of 20 SFPD officers were on the scene of the arrest. A group of bystanders filmed police officers forming a buffer around ICE agents in plainclothes, who witnesses say refused to identify themselves. SFPD officers were also filmed escorting ICE agents as they transported the woman in a wheelchair away from the scene.

SFPD released a statement that officers were responding to a 911 call about the incident, and they stayed on the scene to “maintain public safety.”

“The crowd was furious, but was giving them their distance and was only asking reasonable questions about the identification and documenting what was happening,” Killian told Mission Local. “I was like, you’re not supposed to be helping, but if you’re allowed to crowd control, how is that not helping them?”

Grisel Ruiz, ​​the senior managing attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, pointed out that SFPD’s crowd control role amounted to providing resources that supported ICE operations.

“Creating a perimeter around an ICE arrest to keep the public at a distance so that ICE can conduct an arrest appears to be the SFPD using its resources to support an ICE arrest,” Ruiz told Mission Local.

Bill Ong Hing, a longtime immigration attorney, professor of law at University of San Francisco, and a former police commissioner, told Mission Local that SFPD is only allowed to assist ICE in an emergency or if the public potentially poses harm to ICE agents. Otherwise, police may have violated both the city's ordinance and SFPD’s directive.

“SFPD may argue [the woman being arrested] created a situation where there was a danger to the public," Hing says.

Angela Chan, assistant chief attorney at the San Francisco public defender’s office, told Mission Local, “It does not appear there is any crime being committed by any members of the public.”

“A dozen officers stand in a circle to help officials to take or keep someone in custody, that seems to fit the definition of ‘assisting,'” Chan said, calling the incident “alarming and horrifying.”

Previously: ICE Not Deployed to Assist TSA at SFO, But They Were There Arresting Someone Sunday Night

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• The parents of Jon-Marques Psalms, the 30-year-old SFPD recruit who died while doing a training exercise last August, have now filed a wrongful death claim against the city. Psalms reportedly suffered from something called "rhabdo," or rhabdomyolysis, during the so-called "Red Man" drill in which trainees learn how to fight with and subdue combative suspects. [KRON4]
• SF's newest office tower, the 25-story, four-year-old 415 Natoma in the 5M development at 5th and Mission, now has only a single tenant, Thumbtack, they appear to be leaving, and the building is now being sold to new owners. [Chronicle]
• A 71-year-old Oakland grandmother is a finalist in a national fitness competition. [KTVU]

National:

• As Trump comes asking for $200 billion more for the war in Iran, cracks are beginning to appear in Republican support for the war. [CNN]
• Ever the asshole who can't help himself, Trump jokingly brought up Pearl Harbor in front of the Japanese prime minister during a gathering in the Oval Office Thursday. [New York Times]
• As the Trump administration continues dismantling the Department of Education, piece by piece, without approval from Congress, it is now moving the federal student loan portfolio under the auspices of the Treasury Department. [New York Times]
• Following a shocking video in which she's seen being physically violent and tossing kitchen schools while her young daughter sits crying nearby, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul's season of The Bachelorette has been pulled by ABC before it even started airing. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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• The world premiere of a new play, commissioned by ACT, ||: GIRLS :||: CHANCE :||: MUSIC :||, opened Wednesday night at the Strand Theater. Below, artistic director Pam MacKinnon speaks with playwright and Berkeley native Eisa Davis about this play, about the friendship between adolescent girls in a Bay Area music program. Tickets can be found here.

The SF Public Defender's Office filed a complaint this week with the city's Department of Police Accountability in connection with an August 2025 incident in which they say two men were wrongfully detained and abused at the hands of police in the Hunters Point neighborhood.

According to the complaint, SFPD officers were called to the area just before midnight on August 30, 2025 by a woman whose car had broken down. She told officers that her boyfriend had been physically abusing her and had just run off. She reportedly told the officers that her boyfriend was "Black, 5’5” tall, with curly hair, and wearing a black hoodie with red rhinestones in a spider design, as well as black sweats and Crocs." She also reportedly told the officers that he may have run to his grandmother's house on Quesada Avenue.

The officers then began searching the area and spotted a 22-year-old Black man on Quesada Avenue who is 5-foot-two-inches tall and who was wearing a brown hoodie with white lettering, and white sweatpants. Despite not matching the description, the Public Defender's Office says that the officers pursued the man, who is not being publicly identified because charges against him were dismissed.

The 22-year-old reportedly then ran into the nearby home of his friend, 23-year-old Carlos Espana-Quintanilla. The officers pursued him into the home, and the Public Defender's Office says the 22-year-old repeatedly told officers he had done nothing wrong. Espana-Quintanilla reportedly tried to defend his friend and was holding onto his shirt and refusing to let go. When the SFPD officers tried to separate the two men, per the complaint, one officer allegedly shoved Espana-Quintanilla by the neck with two hands.

As more officers arrived on the scene, the complaint alleges that the 22-year-old was "pinned" to the side of the house and "body-slammed... onto the cement," causing injuries to his nose and chin.

Espana-Quintanilla, meanwhile, was allegedly punched multiple times and shoved onto a bed inside his home, and when his wheelchair-bound sister attempted to intervene to defend her brother, the complaint says she was pepper-sprayed by an officer at close range.

Espana-Quintanilla was reportedly crying out for his mother as he was then taken into custody.

Espana-Quintanilla was later charged with resisting arrest and battery on an officer, but those charges were later dismissed after a court found the officers had not acted lawfully. He was defended by the Public Defender's Office, and a judge reviewed body camera footage from the incident.

The 22-year-old was charged with one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest, and that charge was also later dismissed.

"These SFPD officers compounded their profound errors with violence," says Brian Cox, head of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office Integrity Unit. "They pursued the 22-year-old to his friend’s house—even though, aside from being Black, he had no resemblance to a suspect they were looking for. From there, they violently intruded into a family function and made arrests, shoving the 22-year-old’s face into the sidewalk in the process. Family members protested and demanded to know why police were there, and officers pepper sprayed them."

The complaint alleges that the SFPD officers engaged in racial profiling and lacked reasonable suspicion to detain the 22-year-old, and that they "had ample time to see and realize" that the man did not match their suspect description.

Further, the Public Defender's Office says the officers should be held accountable for the use of excessive force against both the 22-year-old and Espana-Quintanilla, and the illegal detainment of Espana-Quintanilla. The officers are also accused of entering the home of Espana-Quintanilla without a warrant.

As Mission Local reported Wednesdsay, the SFPD has declined to comment on the incident or the complaint.

Top image: Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

On Monday morning, SFPD officers patrolling the 7th and Market area came upon the scene of a suspected aggravated assault that left the female victim lying on the ground with life-threatening injuries, and they detained the suspect who was attempting to walk away.

Cole Wright, 31, of Oakland was arrested Monday after patrol officers from the San Francisco Police Department came upon the aftermath of a violent attack at 7th and Market streets, near UN Plaza, around 8 am, as KRON4 reports.

According to a statement from the department, police quickly detained the suspect who was attempting to leave the scene. The officers then found the adult female victim on the ground with life-threatening injuries and rendered medical aid with the help of paramedics who transported her to the hospital.

Police later arrested Wright after developing probable cause, and he was booked into San Francisco County Jail on charges of aggravated assault and battery causing serious bodily injury. Wright also had three previous active out-of-county warrants.

"This kind of violence will never be tolerated in San Francisco,” said Chief Derrick Lew in the department’s statement. “I want to thank our patrol officers for their excellent police work in taking this violent suspect off the street.”

The investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information should contact the SFPD at 1-415-575-4444 or Text-A-Tip to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.

Image: Guilhem Vellut/Flickr

There was heavy police presence on Cedar Street, an alley on the edge of the Tenderloin, following Thursday’s violent scuffle involving SF Mayor Daniel Lurie’s security detail, with two additional arrests Friday, and neighborhood advocates worry about potential overreach.

As Mission Local reports, police officers conducted a major sweep on Cedar Street near Jane Cafe in Lower Nob Hill Friday, following the scuffle that occurred Thursday between San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s bodyguard and 44-year-old Tony Shervaughn Phillips, who was reportedly blocking the mayor’s SUV, along with multiple others.

As SFist reports, a second video of the incident surfaced Friday that shows the bodyguard shoving Phillips into a pile of debris — while Lurie stood a few feet away — prior to Phillips pushing the bodyguard to the ground, resulting in an abrasion to the bodyguard’s head.

At least two people were reportedly arrested during Friday’s sweep, as seen in the below video footage by X user jj smith, per Mission Local.

While advocates had hoped the incident would help shed light on the need for improvement on Tenderloin streets, they emphasized to Mission Local that heavy policing does more harm than good without the support of crucial community-based programs, which have been drastically cut in recent months, per the SF Examiner and Mission Local.

“We just don’t want to be in this cycle of moving folks around. We want to find a pathway to getting people healthy,” a law enforcement source told Mission Local. “If you get people healthy, you just eliminate so many issues.”

Randy Shaw, executive director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, said the Tenderloin is largely ignored in city policies. “The Tenderloin needs a higher level of service than it is getting,” he told Mission Local. “That seems kind of obvious, but it hasn’t yet translated into a policy action.”

Shaw said the city’s neglect of the Tenderloin helps fuel MAGA rhetoric, and predictably, as Mission Local reports, both the New York Post and the account, Libs of TikTok, took the opportunity to mock Lurie for failing to step in during the scuffle.

The Chronicle spoke to Art Tilis, a local private investigator and former police officer, who says he considers Lurie’s habit of engaging with people on the street a security risk, especially when he's not willing to step in to help during conflict.

“I can’t believe he just walked away,” Tilis told the Chronicle. “All it takes is one other person to help put somebody on the ground.”

“You are not only putting yourself as mayor in harm’s way, you are also putting officers in harm’s way,” he added. “He shouldn’t be doing stuff like that if he doesn’t expect to help.”

Del Seymour, founder of the nonprofit Code Tenderloin, told Mission Local that people on Tenderloin streets are often dealing with addiction and mental health struggles, which makes their behavior unpredictable.

“You can’t be driving through the Tenderloin jumping out trying to be Mother Teresa,” Seymour told Mission Local. “You think you’re a celebrity being the mayor and you think everyone loves you, and most of us do, but there are people that don’t know who you are and you mean nothing to them.”

The mayor “has learned that now,” he added.

Image: Leanne Maxwell/SFist

Image: Mayor Daniel Lurie's Security Detail Attacked In Tenderloin Scuffle, Two Injured

A local law firm filed a lawsuit against Flock alleging federal agencies accessed data from the SFPD’s cameras more than 1.6 million times, and a recent audit by El Cerrito's police department found that several federal agencies briefly accessed its data.

As KTVU reports, Oakland-based law firm Gibbs Mura filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday claiming that data from Flock Safety’s license plate readers was obtained by federal and out-of-state agencies more than 1.6 million times during a seven-month period, and Los Altos’s readers reportedly shared information to out-of-state agencies more than a million times. No further details have been provided about the case.

“The problem that we allege, is that Flock is sharing this information on California drivers with out-of-state law enforcement and the federal government, which is illegal under California law,” says David Berger, a partner with Gibbs Mura, per KTVU.

“They have to be beholden to the laws they claim they are trying to enforce, just like everybody else,” Berger added.

Flock released a statement, saying the company “takes privacy, legal compliance, and data security extremely seriously,” adding, “Flock intends to vigorously defend itself against the asserted claims and allegations.”

NBC Bay Area reports that an audit by the El Cerrito Police Department verified that federal agencies accessed the department’s data from Flock's cameras without its knowledge, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the GSA Office of the Inspector General, when the cameras were first installed in June 2023 until the police department took administrative control of the system two months later.

As Contra Costa News reports, federal agencies gained access to the ECPD’s database two more times after safeguards had reportedly been installed. Between September and November 2023, the United States Postal Inspection searched ECPD’s database. Additionally, over two days in May 2025, the Loma Linda Healthcare System Veterans Affairs Police searched the database.

Per Contra Costa News, Flock reported that the company promptly fixed flaws in the department’s settings that allowed the agencies to access the database. Regarding the Loma Linda Healthcare Systems Veterans Affairs Police, Flock says the agency was incorrectly labeled as a state agency.

“We found these two other incidents of federal sharing that came as a surprise to me,” Chief Paul Keith of the El Cerrito Police Department said.

Per KTVU, the San Jose Police Department implemented safeguards, including requiring more documentation from outside agencies, limiting camera locations, and reducing data retention to 30 days instead of a year, per NBC Bay Area.

Additionally, as KTVU reported Wednesday, the Mountain View City Council voted unanimously to end the city's contract with Flock, and pressure is also mounting in the city of Richmond. As Axios reports, a federal agency accessed the Richmond Police Department's Flock cameras last year before the department blocked access to all federal agencies.

Per NBC Bay Area, Keith will provide further details about the El Cerrito police department's audit at El Cerrito’s city council meeting on March 10.

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Previously: Report: Flock Safety, Maker of SF’s License Plate Reader Cameras, Had Gobsmacking Security Flaw