Officer-involved shooting

Officer-involved shooting in Inner Richmond

SF Citizen

Scene of an officer-involved shooting this morning.

SF Citizen has this pic of the scene at 636 Funston Ave., where an officer reportedly shot and wounded a man this morning. According to the SF Appeal, the man had stabbed two elderly residents. When police arrived, they found a victim outside bleeding, and then entered the residence, where they found another victim, an elderly woman. As they were tending to her, police say a man appeared, holding two knives above his head. Officers apparently tried a less lethal weapon, which didn’t stop the man, before opening fire.

UPDATE: The non-lethal weapon was a bean-bag rifle and the suspect is related to the two victims.

FILED UNDER: Police, Officer-involved shooting, San Francisco Police Department

June 3, 2011 | 12:11 PM | By Ali Winston

Oakland Police arrest man who aimed shotgun at officer

Oakland Police Department

Tyrell Coulter is accused of menacing an Oakland Police officer with a shotgun on June 2nd, 2011.

19-year-old Tyrell Coulter of Oakland is in police custody this morning after he brandished a shotgun at a police officer while fleeing from a car stop.

According to OPD’s account of event,s two OPD officers pulled over two people in a car last night around round 8:07 PM on 67th and Bancroft Avenues to cite them for a violation of the vehicle code. Coulter, dressed in black jeans and a black hooded sweatshirt, jumped out of the car and ran eastward on Bancroft Avenue. An unidentified OPD officer pursued Coulter, who produced a shotgun from his clothing and aimed it at the cop.

The officer fired several shots at Coulter from his duty weapon, all of which missed. Coulter ran to a nearby yard and eluded police for roughly four hours before he was located by a police dog. Coulter’s shotgun was also recovered, and police were questioning him as of this morning.

Coulter will face charges of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and unlawful possession of a firearm. Continue reading →

FILED UNDER: Police, Oakland, Oakland Police, Officer-involved shooting

November 30, 2010 | 1:03 PM | By Ali Winston

Why won’t officials release info on police shootings?

Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley appears to have done an about-face on her office’s transparency policies and is now withholding reports on officer-involved shootings that her office considered public eight months ago.

The document in question is a district attorney’s report – sometimes called a findings letter – that includes details of the incident, the account of separate reviews by police and district attorney’s investigators and a legal explanation of why the officer is not being charged with criminal conduct. These letters are issued only if the district attorney does not charge a police officer with a criminal offense – for example, Nancy O’Malley’s office filed a criminal complaint against Johannes Mehserle rather than issue a findings report.

On November 16, I submitted a request under the California Public Records Act for all the findings letters produced by the Alameda County DA for officer-involved shootings in 2010. The next day, I received a response indicating these records are exempt from disclosure under California Government Code section 6254(f). In plain English, O’Malley’s office considers these reports exempt from public disclosure because they are investigative reports prepared by a law enforcement agency.

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FILED UNDER: Courts, Alameda County District Attorney, Nancy O'Malley, Oakland Police, Officer-involved shooting

November 9, 2010 | 3:52 PM | By Ali Winston

Oakland Police kill unarmed man, fired on in separate incidents last night

Ali Winston

Charles and Maurice Jones, cousins of Derrick Jones, at Oakland Police headquarters following a press conference today

A 37-year-old business owner was shot to death in East Oakland by police officers last night, just hours after Oakland police officers were fired on in West Oakland while questioning a parolee.

Derrick Jones, 37, was shot to death by two OPD officers near the corner of Bancroft Avenue and Trask Street after a foot chase. At a press conference today, Deputy Police Chief Jeff Israel said officers had received a call about a man “attempting to kill a woman” at a laundromat on Bancroft Avenue by allegedly choking her and slamming her head. When the two officers stopped Jones for questioning inside the Kwik Cuts Barbershop he owned nearby, Jones took off running. Continue reading →

FILED UNDER: Community, Police, Aramiya Burrell, Copwatch, Derrick Jones, East Oakland, Kwik Stop Barbershop, Oakland, Oakland Police, Officer-involved shooting

September 27, 2010 | 8:22 AM | By Rina Palta

The Blotter: Monday, September 27

S.F. police officer shoots, kills man Michael Lee lived at a residential hotel on Sutter near Van Ness; an officer was responding to a noise complaint at the hotel when Lee allegedly “presented a weapon” and the officer opened fire. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Armed men in black create a ripple at Mineta San Jose International Airport But not much of one–assault rifle-laden men attract stares, but no calls to 911; apparently, they were security from Lawrence Livermore Lab. (The San Jose Mercury News)

Man Reportedly Causes Disturbance In Starbucks, Barricades Himself In Franklin St. Apt. For Day Police believe drugs were a factor. (SF Appeal)

Kidnapping survivor Jaycee Dugard writing memoir The book, covering Dugard’s life while living with Phillip and Nancy Garrido (and according to authorities, bearing two daughters by Garrido) will come out next year. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Discovery Bay attorney sentenced for false asylum fraud And may face deportation. (Inside Bay Area)

Oakland robbery victim hospitalized After being robbed early Sunday in East Oakland. (Inside Bay Area)

FILED UNDER: Courts, Police, ICE, Officer-involved shooting, San Francisco, San Jose, Sex Offenders

September 9, 2010 | 5:55 PM | By Ali Winston

Lack of transparency hurts police-community relations in LA, SF

For the past three days, Los Angeles’ Westlake neighborhood has been roiled by protests following the fatal officer-involved shooting of a Guatemalan day laborer. 37-year-old Manuel Jamines was shot twice by Los Angeles Police Department officer Frank Hernandez after he waved a knife at Hernandez and two other officers.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Hernandez has been involved in two previous shootings, both nonfatal and determined to be in compliance with department policy. However, concerns about officer misconduct have been raised today after a woman who claimed she witnessed the shooting told reporters that Jamines was not holding a knife when he was shot by Hernandez. Continue reading →

FILED UNDER: Community, Police, Politics, Bernal Dwellings, Frank Hernandez, Joseph Wolf, lawsuit, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Commission, Los Angeles Police Department, Manuel Jamines, Officer-involved shooting, San Francisco Police Commission

August 30, 2010 | 3:01 PM | By Ali Winston

SFPD: Four arrests in Saturday night officer-involved shooting

Three juveniles and a 20-year-old San Francisco man have been arrested as suspects in Saturday night’s officer-involved shooting in the Bayview district. According to SFPD Sgt. Troy Dangerfield, the four will face assorted gang-related charges and one will be charged with a weapons offense. Dangerfield did not name any of the suspects or specify who will be charged with what.

One round was fired at two SFPD plainclothes officers around 9:40 PM on Saturday when they approached a group of people gathered at Kiska and Reardon roads near a San Francisco Housing Authority project. The officers returned fire. No one was struck during the exchange of gunfire. Continue reading →

FILED UNDER: Police, Bayview, gang, Gang injunction, Oakdale Mob, Officer-involved shooting, San Francisco Police

August 13, 2010 | 9:25 AM | By Rina Palta

The Blotter: Friday, August 13

In Antioch, a man suspected of burglary was shot and killed by police this morning. Police say they were called to a home where a burglary was in progress and attempted to use a police dog to capture the suspect. Gunfire was exchanged and the suspect was killed and a police dog was injured. . .

Sheriff’s deputies discovered a body in a remote area near Gilroy this morning. . .

A Tuesday shooting that put a Novato teen in the hospital has been attributed to “taunting” that took place between the teen and a group of people in a car. . .

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