"Go ahead, make my day."
Posted on 01/28/2008 8:46:21 AM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- A man who was shot by a San Francisco police officer while fleeing to avoid a panhandling citation has died, authorities said today.
The man died at 6:25 p.m. Sunday at San Francisco General Hospital, according to the medical examiner's office. His name wasn't released pending notification of his family.
The shooting occurred about 3:20 p.m., after someone complained to police about a panhandler on the median strip of Van Ness Avenue at Greenwich.
An officer responded and went onto the median to cite the man, who was uncooperative, said police Sgt. Steve Mannina. When the officer tried to detain the suspect, he fled east on Greenwich, Mannina said.
The officer called for backup. At Polk and Greenwich, the officer and two colleagues who had pulled up in a marked squad car approached the panhandler, who turned toward them with a knife, Mannina said.
The officers repeatedly ordered the man to drop the weapon, described as a kitchen knife with an 8-inch blade, Mannina said. He said the man lunged with the knife at one of the officers, prompting one of them to shoot the man, who fell.
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A man who was shot by a San Francisco police officer while fleeing to avoid a panhandling citation has died,
Actually, he was shot while attacking a Police Officer, but why would the Comicle let the facts get in the way of an agenda?
Liberal Utopia has removed one of the lesser equals from it’s rolls.
Crap writing ... Internally inconsistent ... State of the MSM ... Morons
Who'da thunkit.
"Go ahead, make my day."
Budget cut-backs in the department in S.F> Monies diverted to other social programs? Cops don’t get paper targets for weapons practice any more? Poor panhandlers just another drain in the Liberal Mecca of the World?
More jackboots infringing on our creator-given right to lunge at people with 8-inch kitchen blades. Nazis!!!
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SF Goal: End homelessness?
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