Two San Francisco Police Department officers were injured Sunday, after a felon who was out on probation allegedly ran from officers suspicious of the shopping bag he was carrying.
Bay City News reports that at 2:53 Sunday afternoon, officers "working to abate auto thefts and auto burglaries" near 20th and Connecticut Streets in Potrero Hill saw a man they knew to be a felon on probation "carrying a shopping bag of the kind used by thieves to conceal stolen goods."
The man, who police have yet to publicly name, ran when police attempted to make contact, SFPD says.
As a condition of his probation, the man was required to submit to police searches when stopped, according to BCN.
The SFPD officers chased the fleeing suspect, police say. When they caught up to him, he "resisted arrest." In the end, both officers say they were hurt in the incident, with injuries police say are not life-threatening.
In addition to his alleged flight, police say that a gun was discovered in his backpack. According to a tweet by Bayview Station Captain Raj Vaswani, the man was booked into San Francisco County Jail, where he remains as of this morning.
Ofc on Potrero Hill looking 4 burglaries(20th Street) try to contact a person on probation who fights them/has gun, 2 ofcs injured /S-> JAIL
— Captain Vaswani (@sfvas) July 17, 2016