Film from police body-worn cameras and surveillance footage presented by police today reveal Juan Antonio Serrato lunging at San Francisco police officers with a small metal scissor before being shot.
The footage was part of a town hall held after last week’s shooting of the 40-year-old on a highway ramp after he had purportedly climbed onto a woman’s roof and limped across all lanes of Highway 101.
The officer who delivered the single shot to Serrato’s chest is Michael R. Scott. Serrato is presently recovering from his shooting at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
Officers believe Serrato was trespassing onto a woman’s property next to the highway on Holiday Avenue, and jumped off her roof. He then purportedly stumbled across both southbound and northbound Highway 101.
In an 11 a.m. call to 911 on Sept. 4, a woman reported that a man matching Serrato’s description had trespassed into her backyard before climbing onto her roof.
Footage shared at the town hall shows Serrato limping across Holiday Avenue and yelling in pain before jumping over a chain link fence separating the city street from the highway below.
Minutes before Scott shot Serrato in the chest, three drivers commuting down Highway 101 called 911 to report the man stumbling across the highway, holding small metal scissors.
Ingleside police district officers, who had arrived to respond to the call of a man on the roof, confronted Serrato on the shoulder of the Highway 101 onramp, and a brief but bloody standoff ensued.
“You alright?” asked the approaching, unidentified officer in body-camera footage on the Highway 101 median, as Serrato, approximately 10 feet away, walked dangerously close to oncoming traffic on Bayshore Boulevard.
“Come over here,” said the officer. “There’s cars.”
In an instant, Serrato turned to face the officer and began quickly limping and stumbling towards him, making a stabbing motion in the air with his scissors.
That’s when another officer, Michael Scott, standing beside his police vehicle on the opposite side of the divider, shot Serrato in the chest. Serrato quickly collapsed to the ground, dropping his scissors.
“It hurts, man. It hurts,” exclaimed Serrato, lying on his back and bleeding profusely from his chest as officers and paramedics attempted to render aid.
According to San Francisco interim police chief Paul Yep, Serrato is now “stable” and recovering at San Francisco General Hospital.
It is unknown at this time whether Serrato may have been experiencing a mental health crisis or under the influence.
Earlier this year, the San Francisco Police Department updated its use of force policy to require officers to “utilize strategic communication, crisis intervention, and de-escalation strategies” while engaging with people with mental health disorders before resorting to the use of force.
“We are grateful that the officers involved are safe, and that no bystanders were involved,” said Officer Gerald Newbeck, police captain of the Ingleside Police District. “Officers developed remarkable courage during extremely challenging circumstances,” he said.
Thank you SFPD. You have a dangerous job and most of us are grateful to you for doing it.
Oh yes such remarkable courage by police! LOL
I talked to a cop recently and told her that if she sees someone brandishing a dangerous weapon, she shouldn’t risk her own safety and instead she should just shoot him right away. There was controversy in San Jose about a woman who was shot while threatening a cop with a mere apple peeler, but she could have put his eye out with it so the cop did the right thing.
Yes. Lock up the cop. He should have offered this hero a cup of coffee and a hug. Morons
Glad the headline got changed from “edged weapon,” which is ridiculous copaganda speak.
Mel —
The headline always said “scissors.” It’s the text on the body-worn camera screen-cap that says “edged weapon.”
Best,
JE
Lock him up.
Could you be more specific about who you are referring to?
Specifics come from reading the articles, so no. They can’t.
Two questions,
Had Officer Scott ever shot anyone before ?
Is Officer Scott a Lateral Transfer on the Brady List like the Mission Station boss ?
go Niners !!
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Why is there no critical analysis here?
First off, did anyone notice that there was no ERIW (bean bag shotgun) on scene? There absolutely should have been.
In addition, there’s a deputy sheriff there. They carry tasers. Instead of having their taser out, the deputy had their gun out, which really wasn’t necessary given the two SFPD officers with guns basically standing in between the SFPD and the guy that got shot.
This person did not need to be shot.