Two undercover police officers arrested an unidentified man near the Mission and 16th Street BART station during a police raid at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday.
The suspect was riding a green bicycle when a police officer chased him down and threw him off the bike and onto nearby steps. Dozens of witnesses scrambled away as the suspect tried to escape.
Another police car and an officer on a motorcycle arrived within minutes, and the man was handcuffed. Two undercover officers searched him but didn’t find anything.
Officer Moody said that this was an undercover narcotics operation, but didn’t want to provide further details.
The suspect was taken to Mission Station for booking.
Witnesses were aggravated by the incident but not surprised.
“Sometimes they come and just grab anybody that they see,” said one witness, who refused to identify himself. “I think that what they’re doing is not right.”
Is this really a headline? How about “Drunk hipsters walk down Valencia Street” – about the same level of surprise as this headline.
I have to question the value of publishing quotes from persons who refuse to identify themselves. What does it matter who this anonymous person thinks?
Don’t get me wrong, I agree with your statement 100%, but I can’t help but point out the irony in that comment being made under pseudonym.
Every time I walk by the 16th and Mission BART plaza I see a drug deal, if not multiple drug transactions. It figures that SFPD would chase down a guy who had no drugs on him. And it figures that the “witness” faults the cops for trying to enforce the law.
It’s pretty obvious that there is no law at the 16th and Mission BART plaza. I see cops there now and then, but it never stops the same old same old.
relieved that it wasn’t a shooting. i was cuaght in the traffic jam that ensued along mission st. and saw the crime scene, originally thinking it was a shooting. i turned onto hoff st to bypass the backup and saw a police cruiser with a green bike in the trunk which pulled into the mission station.