Arts & Entertainment Notes From An Occupation: Police Infighting Friend of SFist and dedicated Occupy SF participant Scott Rossi was on the scene at last night's big barricade event. Highlights include details about the crowd knocking down the barricades and an eye-witness
SF News S.F.P.D. Raids Occupy SF 101 Market Site [Updated] S.F.P.D. has cleared out the Occupy SF camp in front of the Federal Reserve Building at 101 Market tonight, and two buses worth of police are still in the area.
SF News Alleged Former Black Liberation Army 'Warrior' Ronald Bridgeforth Comes Forward in 43-Year-Old Shooting Successful fugitive Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth, who may or may not have been a member of the Black Liberation Army in San Francisco an extra-violent off-shoot of the Black Panthers was charged a few
SF News Three SFPD Officers Injured After Run-In With a Light Pole Three cops responding to a call about a knife-wielding man at 24th and York around 1:45 a.m. last night didn't quite make it to the scene when their unmarked blue Ford
SF News San Francisco Gets Its Own Special Victims Unit No, not an addition to the Law & Order franchise, an actual division of the San Francisco Police Department: Mayor Lee and SFPD Chief Greg Suhr announced yesterday the department would be consolidating
SF News Reports of Violence as Sunday Night Confrontation at Occupy SF Ends in Five Arrests [UPDATED: Video] SFPD and members of Occupy SF butt heads Sunday night as authorities attempted to forcibly remove the Occupy encampment at Justin Herman Plaza starting around 10:30 p.m. According to ABC7, Police
SF News SFPD in Search of Missing Lower Haight Man San Francisco police investigators are searching for Mark Marvin, 39, who was last seen leaving his home near Divisadero and Waller at around 4 p.m. on October 6th. He has not been
SF News John Avalos Releases Statement on Occupy SF Supervisor and mayoral candidate John Avalos released a statement following last night's Occupy SF tent city closure by SFPD. Avalos was at the brouhaha, and negotiated with authorities to keep the tent city
SF News That Wheelchair-Bound Man Shot By SFPD Last Winter? He Was Shot In the Penis Yesterday the trial began for Randal Dunklin, 56, the wheelchair-bound homeless man who was shot by police on January 4th of this year after he had been wielding a knife and refusing to
SF News SFPD Demands Occupy SF Encampment to Shutter Police asked residents, if you will, of the tiny tent town outside the Federal Reserve Bank at 101 Market Street to scatter last night. The shantytown occupying the area was built in support
SF News Woman Goes On Cop Car Window Smashing Spree in SoMa A presumably mentally-unhinged lady went on a smashing at least three parked police cars this morning. The San Francisco woman was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism at 3:27 a.m. after
SF News Police Cracking Down on Red-Light-Blowing Cyclists Following a spate of accidents involving cyclists who don't obey traffic signals, the SFPD is in crack-down mode this morning. Joe Eskenazi reports on The Snitch that "a phalanx of motorcycle cops" were
SF News SFPD Now Says Broadway Shooting Started With Mistaken Identity Late updates from the SFPD's investigation in to last Sunday's North Beach shooting that put two innocent bystanders in the hospital: The department explained to the Chronicle that the officers' eagerness to make
SF News SFPD Nabs Three Copper Thieves in Dogpatch Sting Finally, someone is taking action against the Bay Area's copper crime syndicate that has hit everyone from Facebook HQ to local schools and churches. To respond to these less-than-electrifying crimes, SFPD has set
SF News SFPD Officers Shoot at Suspected Drug Dealer, Hit Bystanders Instead An easy North Beach drug bust went awry early Saturday morning when two SFPD officers took a shot at a fleeing suspect, but ended up nicking two innocent bystanders instead. The officers witnessed
SF News Driving Down Market Street Might Now Get You a $176 Ticket Surprisingly, it's already been two years since the city started testing out this traffic-calming measure, forcing all private vehicles to make right turns at Tenth and Sixth Streets. It's a complicated thing, and
SF News We Need More LGBT Cops, Says SFPD Gay? Need a job? Want a tough job that requires patience, handling weaponry, and dealing with the public at large? Well, the San Francisco Police Department will accept Q2-Entry-Level Police Officer applications beginning
SF News Man Opens Fire On Officer In Silver Terrace A cop driving home was shot at this morning. "The off-duty officer drove away from a man, who police described as only a black man, who ran up to his car around Bayshore
SF News At Least 40 Arrested During Monday Night's BART Flash Mob During Monday night's (now regularly occurring) protest/party at the BART Civic Center station, at least 40 people were pinched by the fuzz during the melee. What initially started out as a rally
SF News Police Say They Found Kenneth Harding's Gun San Francisco Police claim they've recovered the gun involved in the shooting death of Kenneth Harding. No weapon was found at the scene initially, leading many to believe fare officers were at fault
SF News Kenneth Harding's Brother Arrested in Connection with Seattle Homicide While the SFPD continues to sort out the Kenneth Harding shooting-death case, Chronicle reports today that Harding's older brother Ondrell Harding is now wanted in connection with the beating death of a 50-year-old
SF News Bayview Pastors React Charitably to Kenneth Harding Shooting Death In response to tension sparked by Kenneth Harding reportedly shooting himself to death while trying to evade fare police earlier this month, several pastors "stood on a Muni platform Monday in San Francisco's
SF News Police Now Claim Kenneth Harding Shot, Killed Himself What authorities initially claimed as a justifiable self-defense killing, SFPD now says that Kenneth Harding died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. "Police had originally said Harding had turned and fired at the officers,
SF News Police Chief Greg Suhr Tries, Fails to Calm Angry Bayview Residents On Wednesday night, Police Chief Greg Suhr headed back to his old neighborhood to discuss Saturday's justifiable shooting death of 19-year-old parolee Kenneth Harding. Instead of answering questions, Suhr received a chilly reception
SF News 35 Arrested Following (Misguided) Protest In Dolores Park "They can't shoot us all -- fuck the police," reads a banner carried by a smattering of people following yesterday's protest in Dolores Park. The protest was over the unfortunate yet justifiable shooting
