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Man dies after being shot by SF police
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 1/28/8 | Tyche Hendricks,Henry K. Lee

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: bum; deadcriminal; sanfranciscovalues; sfpd
Stupid is as stupid does.
1 posted on 01/28/2008 8:46:23 AM PST by SmithL
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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?

2 posted on 01/28/2008 8:48:57 AM PST by SmithL (My tagline dropped out)
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Liberal Utopia has removed one of the lesser equals from it’s rolls.


3 posted on 01/28/2008 8:51:19 AM PST by blackdog
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To: SmithL
Actually, he was shot while attacking a Police Officer, but why would the Comicle let the facts get in the way of an agenda?

Crap writing ... Internally inconsistent ... State of the MSM ... Morons

4 posted on 01/28/2008 8:54:57 AM PST by TexGuy (If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
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To: SmithL
Wow, they let the cops have GUNS in San Francisco??

Who'da thunkit.

5 posted on 01/28/2008 8:55:39 AM PST by red-dawg
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To: red-dawg

"Go ahead, make my day."

6 posted on 01/28/2008 8:56:53 AM PST by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: red-dawg

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?


7 posted on 01/28/2008 9:00:21 AM PST by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: SmithL

More jackboots infringing on our creator-given right to lunge at people with 8-inch kitchen blades. Nazis!!!

/s


8 posted on 01/28/2008 9:02:12 AM PST by RabidBartender
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To: SmithL

SF Goal: End homelessness?


9 posted on 01/28/2008 10:00:52 AM PST by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: SmithL
One less panhandler to drag down property values in Nan Pelosi’s oh-so-trendy (and breathtakingly wealthy) neighborhood.
10 posted on 01/28/2008 4:30:16 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Wanna see how bad it can get? Elect Hillary and find out.)
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