SF News Tense Standoff With Armed Man at SFO Causes Chaos For Some Travelers, Ends With Officer-Involved Shooting A standoff Thursday morning at SFO between multiple San Francisco police officers and an agitated man allegedly armed with two guns disrupted BART service and created a disruption at the airport's International Terminal, and ended with the man fatally shot.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Police Shoot and Kill Armed Man at SFO There was an officer-involved shooting at SFO following a confrontation with an armed man that closed the BART station there, and police in Santa Rosa arrested a suspect following a standoff and hostage situation last night.
SF News Police In Richmond Fatally Shoot Apparently Drunk Man Holding Airsoft-Style Handgun A man was fatally shot by San Pablo police Wednesday in North Richmond after he appeared to be playing with a handgun in a menacing fashion outside some businesses — but the gun turned out not to be real.
SF News SFPD Fatally Shoots Knife-Wielding Man at Fifth and Folsom Residential Hotel There was heavy police activity Friday morning on the 900 block of Folsom Street, after an officer shot and killed a man armed with a knife inside an SRO.
SF Politics CA Attorney General Says His Office Will Now Decide Charges In Officer-Involved Shootings of Unarmed Civilians Newly installed California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday laid out how he plans to enforce a law that he helped put on the books as an Assemblymember, which requires the AG's Office to get involved with all police shootings of unarmed civilians in the state.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Man Shot By Plainclothed Officer Staking Out His House Federal investigators recently seized over 40 lbs of fentanyl from an alleged Honduran cartel in the East Bay, the San Jose PD has a lot of questions to answer about a Monday night shooting of a man outside his home, and the 92-y-o Bellevue Club in Oakland is becoming a new location of The Battery.
SF News SFPD Officer Involved In Shooting Near South Park Just before 1 p.m. Friday, there was an officer-involved shooting near South Park in San Francisco, and details so far are scarce.
SF News Special Prosecutor Decides No Charges Will Be Filed Against Vallejo Officers Who Fatally Shot Willie McCoy After the Solano County District Attorney recused herself last year, a special prosecutor was assigned to review the February 2019 officer-involved shooting case in Vallejo that left 20-year-old rapper Willie McCoy dead following 55 rounds that were shot into his car.
SF News New Report Ranks How Much Bay Area Law Enforcement Agencies Pay For Violent Officer Misconduct You would think that how much a city pays in police misconduct settlements would correlate to the size of its police force. Such is not the case, according to information obtained by KTVU.
SF Politics SF Police Chief and District Attorney Insist They're Not Enemies, Chief Says They Don't Always Agree In a show of unity Wednesday on a live-streamed Zoom session, SF Police Chief Bill Scott and District Attorney Chesa Boudin discussed recent charging decisions implicating SF police officers, and the growing role of the DA's Independent Investigations Bureau.
SF News Grand Jury Indicts Rookie SFPD Officer Over December 2019 Shooting of Jamaica Hampton In the second instance of an SFPD officer facing charges stemming from an officer-involved shooting in just two weeks, District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Monday that a grand jury has returned an indictment of Officer Christopher Flores for the Dec. 2019 shooting of Jamaica Hampton.
SF Politics SF District Attorney Files Manslaughter Charges Against Cop In 2017 Shooting For what's believed to be the first time, a San Francisco district attorney has filed a homicide charge against a police officer for shooting a citizen while in the line of duty.
SF News Video Emerges of Police Shooting Outside Westfield Mall; Suspect Remains In Critical Condition An eyewitness video appeared on Instagram Wednesday showing, at least from one angle, how an incident unfolded on the Market Street sidewalk outside the Westfield shopping center Tuesday evening in which a man was shot by SFPD officers.
SF News SFPD Officers Shoot Man Wielding Large Knife Outside Westfield Mall A man who was reportedly acting erratically and refusing to comply with police commands while waving around a large knife on Tuesday evening was shot and wounded by police.
SF News SFPD Releases Body-Camera Footage Showing Police Killing of Cesar Vargas; Officers Involved Identified On Monday, the SFPD held a virtual town hall to discuss the Oct. 10 police killing of 21-year-old carjacking suspect Cesar Antonio Vargas, release video of the incident, and name the two officers involved in the shooting.
SF News Vallejo Seeks Change Of Venue And Gag Order For Civil Rights Case In Sean Monterrosa Shooting The city attorney in Vallejo is already seeking a change of venue and a gag order on the attorneys and plaintiffs involved in the civil rights lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court pertaining to the police shooting of Sean Monterrosa.
SF News Vallejo PD Moves To Fire Officer In 2019 Shooting As Family of Sean Monterrosa Sues For Wrongful Death In a federal court filing today, the Monterrosas and their attorneys say that the June 2 shooting was "brutal, malicious, and done without just provocation or cause."
SF News San Leandro Police Officer Fatally Shoots Car Theft Suspect In Oakland A San Leandro Police officer shot and killed a suspect in an allegedly stolen vehicle following a chase into Oakland Wednesday night, after the suspect allegedly emerged from the car with an assault weapon.
SF News Destruction Of Evidence In Vallejo Police Killing Of Sean Monterrosa Prompts Calls for FBI, State AG To Investigate The Vallejo Police Department continues to prove that it is incapable of inspiring public trust or investigating the actions of its own officers, and a revelation came recently that a key piece of evidence in the shooting of Sean Monterrosa has already been destroyed.
SF News Body Cam Footage Shows Vallejo Officer Shoot Sean Monterrosa Through Windshield, Then Ask If He Was Armed The body-worn camera footage has been released by the Vallejo PD in the June 2 shooting. And it shows an officer in the backseat of a police vehicle aim a high-powered rifle and fire five rounds through the front windshield before the vehicle had even come to a stop.
SF News Sheriff Releases Video Footage Of Woman Shot By Officers In Half Moon Bay The woman who was reported to have shot at San Mateo County sheriff's deputies with a shotgun, and who was then fatally shot by deputies herself on May 5 in Half Moon Bay, has been identified as 56-year-old Sandra Lee Harmon.
SF News Couple Shot By CHP Officers In Oakland Were Driving Vehicle Allegedly Looted From San Leandro Dealership A man and a woman who were shot by CHP officers in Oakland Saturday night were reportedly driving a vehicle identified as one of the 70+ cars stolen off a dealer's lot during widespread looting in San Leandro a week ago Sunday.
SF News Family of Man Killed By Vallejo Officer: 'They Executed Him' 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa, the San Francisco man who was fatally shot Monday night by a Vallejo police officer who believed he was carrying a handgun — which turned out to be a hammer — was the son of a longtime employee at Anchor Oyster Bar in the Castro. And his family is speaking out.
SF News 22-Year-Old Latinx Man Was Kneeling With No Weapon In His Hand When He Was Fatally Shot By Vallejo PD The case of the police shooting of 22-year-old San Francisco man Sean Monterrosa is certain to reverberate around the Bay Area in the coming days and months, as demonstrations continue and tensions remain high over police killings nationwide.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Man Holding Hammer Was Killed By Vallejo PD Over Alleged Looting A man firing a rifle from an East Oakland home was allegedly holding two children hostage, Pelosi joins protesters in DC, and the Vallejo PD will now have to answer for the shooting death of an alleged looter holding a hammer.
