You are about to see a video of an incident that should serve as a stark reminder of the dangers police officers face on a daily basis. What is terrible wrong with the situation here is that the SFPD’s Use of Force police prohibits officers from firing at a suspect in a moving vehicle.
The San Francisco Police Department has released this video of a bicycle officer being struck by a vehicle during an auto burglary investigation near Alamo Square on Feb. 1, 2018. Media: San Francisco Chronicle.
The San Francisco Police Department released a video Friday of an auto break-in suspect running over a plainclothes police officer and an alleged accomplice Thursday near Alamo Square.
The police officers union said the attack shows how the department’s policy prohibiting officers from firing at moving vehicles puts its “officers’ lives in danger.”
The Police Department released the video while identifying three suspects in the attack as young San Francisco men, two of whom were booked on suspicion of charges including attempted murder.
The video was captured just before noon from a security camera near Pierce and Hayes streets.
A black Infinity sedan pulls up and two people wearing gray hooded sweatshirts get out.
Police officials said the men were part of a team breaking into cars at the famed tourist draw, across from the Painted Ladies. Plainclothes officers were at the scene amid a spiking epidemic of car break-ins around the city.
Ten seconds after the men get out of the car, one of the alleged accomplices runs back into the vehicle. A second man, though, gets tackled directly behind the car by an undercover officer who had been patrolling on a bicycle.
Kinda lame they didn't tell us what happened to the officer or his condition. Judging from this, he did survive being run over.
Lofton and Butler were booked on suspicion of crimes including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and hit-and-run causing injury. They are being held on $2 million bail.
