SF News Saturday Links: Driver Tosses Grenade Out Car Window While Fleeing CHP In North Berkeley The founding guitarist from Bay Area death metal band Possessed was killed by police during a standoff over a tree debris dispute; the Hello Kitty Cafe Truck is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Walnut Creek on Saturday; and a driver fleeing CHP threw a grenade out of a car window.
SF News Police Fatally Shoot Armed Man Who Was Firing Gun In South San Francisco South San Francisco police shot and killed a man Monday evening in what's been described as a shootout.
SF News Attorney for Man Shot In Outer Sunset Police Confrontation Disputes Claim That He Shot Himself A man who was injured by a gunshot wound during an encounter with San Francisco police officers earlier this month didn't fire a single shot, his attorney argues, and police are trying to save face.
SF News BART Releases Bodycam Video of Incident Where BART Police Shot a 32-Year-Old Woman We now have bodycam video of the November 18 BART Police shooting of a woman at the Union City BART station parking lot, after BART Police responded to reports she was doing donuts in the parking lot.
SF News SFPD’s Non-Lethal ‘Lasso’ Tool Failed Three Times In Lead-Up to Union Square Police Shooting Just-released bodycam video shows that a September 13 Powell Street BART station police shooting was preceded by three attempts to use a sort of “lasso gun” called a BolaWrap, but that tool failed to subdue the suspect three times.
SF News City of Vallejo Settles for $5 Million In Case of Willie McCoy, Whom Police Shot 55 Times Another huge settlement for the family of a victim shot by Vallejo police, or in this case the family of a victim shot 55 times by Vallejo police, as the city has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of Willie McCoy for his 2019 shooting.
SF News Oakland Police Make 'Several' Arrests In Connection With Fatal Shooting of Officer Following Dispensary Burglary The investigation continues into the tragic killing of an on-duty Oakland police officer last week who was among several officers responding to an alleged cannabis dispensary burglary. And over the holiday weekend, the OPD says it made "several" arrests.
SF News [Updated] Oakland Police Officer Shot and Killed In 'Ambush' Near Jack London Square Details are starting to emerge in an early Friday confrontation near Oakland's Jack London Square, which ended in a crashed pickup truck and one Oakland police officer shot and critically wounded.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Footage of Shooting of Man Who Drove Into Chinese Consulate We still don’t know the motive of the man who was shot and killed after driving into the SF Chinese consulate last week, but at a town hall meeting showing the officers’ bodycam videos, we see that the suspect was indeed swinging a knife.
SF News Car Crashing Into Chinese Consulate In SF Considered an International Incident, Just Weeks Before APEC Information about the suspect shot and killed by police and his motivations are not being released quickly, the SFPD says, because Monday's crash is being treated as an international incident.
SF Politics DA Jenkins Sued by One of Her Former Investigators, Who Claims She Lied in Dismissing Police Shooting Case Some old Chesa Boudin-era drama is rearing its head again, as DA Jenkins’s former assistant chief of investigations is hauling her to court, saying she lied when dropping the charges against a police officer who shot and killed someone.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Footage From Tenderloin Shooting of Knife-Wielding Man As part of its transparency protocol, San Francisco police held a town hall meeting Thursday and presented body-camera footage from an August 28 incident in which multiple officers shot and wounded a man who refused to drop a knife he was carrying.
SF News Knife-Wielding Man In Tenderloin Shot and Gravely Wounded By SFPD A man with what appeared to be a machete or long knife was shot by San Francisco police Monday night on Jones Street in the Tenderloin, and the incident was widely captured on cellphone video by bystanders.
SF News Fired Vallejo Cop Who Killed Sean Monterrosa Gets His Job Back — With Back Pay and Benefits, Too It took the Vallejo Police Department 15 months to fire the officer who shot and killed 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa. But now less than ten months after that firing, the officer is getting his job back, and with back pay to boot.
SF News Video Surfaces of Wednesday's Police Shooting in Bayview, Victim Identified Graphic video of SFPD shooting a man in Bayview Wednesday afternoon has been posted to social media, and it does appear the victim was pointing a gun at officers. He’s since been identified as a 41-year-old San Francisco man.
SF News DA Jenkins Will Drop Charges Against SFPD Officer In 2017 Shooting of Mentally Ill Man SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has cleaned house in one regard, now having dismissed charges in all three police shooting cases brought by her predecessor Chesa Boudin.
SF News Vallejo Settles Lawsuit With Family of Angel Ramos, Who Was Killed By Police One of five men fatally shot by Vallejo police in recent years, Angel Ramos, will be getting some kind of justice after the city has agreed to pay his family $2.8 million to settle a wrongful death case.
SF News Vallejo Cop Who Fatally Shot Sean Monterrosa In 2020 Is Finally Fired A Vallejo police detective who fired the gun that killed 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa during civil unrest at a Walgreens in June 2020 has been fired following the conclusion of a third-party investigation into the incident.
SF News Medical Examiner Suggests SF Police Officers Fatally Shot Two Men, One of Whom Was Unarmed, One Had Knife The SFPD will be under scrutiny in the coming months for the fatal shooting of civilians, in this case two men who were possibly both homeless who were engaged in an altercation at Mariposa Park when officers arrived last week.
SF Politics Former Investigator Sues SF District Attorney In Whistleblower Complaint The embattled San Francisco District Attorney's Office has one more headache to add to the pile this week as a wrongful termination suit has arrived from a former investigator.
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 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 Approves Largest-Ever Settlement for a Police Shooting, $5.7 Million, for the Family of Ronell Foster A Vallejo Police officer is on paid administrative leave after killing two people in less than a year, as police misconduct settlements are piling up in Vallejo.
SF News SFPD Trumpets Drop in Use-of-Force, Shooting Incidents It’s been nearly a full year since the San Francisco Police Department shot anyone, which they say shows a successful implementation of new use-of-force policies.
SF News No Charges in Stephon Clark Shooting, Family Seeks State Prosecution Wounds are reopened in the case of an unarmed Sacramento man who police shot six times in the back.
