Three San Francisco police officers shot an allegedly armed person in the Powell BART station, after chasing that person into the station on Friday morning, Mission Local has learned.ย
Tenderloin Station officers responded to reports of a person with a gun. Police set up โcontainmentโ units, but the suspect eluded them and fled. Officers followed the person on foot into the Powell BART station, where the three officers shot the person.ย
The person was conscious and speaking with medics after being shot, but their condition is not yet known, according to sources. Witnesses at the scene saw the person being wheeled into an ambulance by medics.
A police department spokesperson said that officers along with Healthy Street Operation Center workers discovered the man, armed with a gun, around 10:18 a.m. in a car near Jessie and 6th streets. Police approached the vehicle and the man fled on foot.
“When officers approached the vehicle, the suspect exited the vehicle and a foot pursuit ensued,” the statement from police said. “The armed suspect ran into a retail store in the area in an attempt to evade police officers. The suspect later exited the store and continued to flee from officers and ran down into the Powell BART station.”
A swarm of armed officers were seen gathered outside GNG Liquors on 5th Street between Market and Mission, and a man is seen leaving with his hand at his waistband, according to footage posted on Twitter by FriscoLive415.
๐ฅ๐ซUnreal Footage –> What happened in the moments leading up to this mornings wild Officer Involved Shooting incident at Powell Station? Here is our first cut of the available footage we have, and we still have LOTS more to comb through. Media ๐are circling overhead Powell!! https://t.co/otTAVpnHpy pic.twitter.com/uypY1Ipdfx
— FriscoLive415 (@friscolive415) September 13, 2024
Police and sheriff’s deputies with weapons drawn chased the man toward Market Street, and down into the BART station, where multiple gunshots could be heard in the footage. People gathered near the cable car terminus nearby are seen running away.
After the shooting, police recovered a gun at the scene, according to a statement from the police department on Friday afternoon.
This is a developing story and may be updated as more information becomes available.
FriscoLive415 looks like he almost got himself killed taking footage of this.
At any rate, quite a bizarre scene with dozens of cops doing nothing but yelling while the guy saunters away close to a bunch of tourists at the Powell street cable car stop.
Time, Distance, De-Escalate…
Reasonably “Necessary” Force…Make a plan… wait for a supervisor.
It’s what the people wanted. Can’t have a repeat of the Mario Woods shooting.
Spot on. Furthermore, the new ab 1506 law implemented this year puts cops in a weird spot in these types of situations. The law says deadly force can only be used if “imminent threat to the life or safety” is presented. In this case, holding a gun may not necessarily meet that threshold, without more, like threats or pointing the gun for example. This is what people wanted and if they want different, vote vote vote. I think this needs to change, give the police more tools to stop these threats.
Takes me back 40 plus years when I worked on Montgomery and my bf in the Flood Building. I’d take BART to Powell – more expensive than Muni at maybe forty cents vs a quarter but quicker as in those days BART really ran firmly on schedule and at 12:05 there would be a Daly City train at Montgomery. We’d have lunch at our fave diner on Powell (cheap, good and quick) and my only worry was getting to BART Powell at 12:55. Pickpockets were about the extent of crime then and they targeted tourists not residents.
This looks like an episode of Reno911. Couldn’t some officers they have approached from the other side and surrounded him? Forcing him into a crowded metro station and putting so many people’s lives at stake with their shootout omg ๐คฏ.
You have to watch for crossfire and be killed by friendly fire. A 45 degree angle could have been deployed because he should not have walked almost a city block, and then get shot, should have been contained in front of the liquor store.
Why didn’t they shoot him in the leg when he first walked out without his hands up?
New ab 1506 law implemented this year puts cops in a weird spot in these types of situations. The law says deadly force can only be used if โimminent threat to the life or safetyโ is presented. In this case, holding a gun may not necessarily meet that threshold, without more, like threats or pointing the gun for example. This is what people wanted and if they want different, vote vote vote. I think this needs to change, give the police more tools to stop these threats.