A little after 6 p.m., an intoxicated man holding a drink assaulted another man on the corner of Mission and 22nd Streets. The victim, who works for San Francisco’s Department of Technology, was checking a red and blue Department of Electricity box in front of the Skechers store, when he was approached by the man.
“He just came up to me and started saying, ‘What are you doing,’” the victim (who declined to be named) said.
After the victim told him that he was testing a fire alarm system, the man “just kind of snapped,” he said, and hit him in the chest.
The victim called his dispatcher on a radio, and the cops arrived within a minute and a half, he said. He fled to the other side of Mission Street, as cops restrained the man with plastic handcuffs in front of Popeyes.
On his stomach on the sidewalk, the man yelled profanities at the cops. A crowd gathered as more cops arrived on the scene. “Don’t use excessive force on him,” one bystander told the eight cops surrounding the man. “He’s restrained.”
Just before 6:30 p.m., the man was transferred to a black and white S.F.P.D. van and taken away for being intoxicated in public.
A cop at the scene said that the victim does not wish to press charges.
“Don’t use excessive force on him.”