After two stories ran in Friday’s San Francisco Examiner about the latest mentally ill person killed in an officer-involved shooting this year, an advocate for the mentally ill pointed out that a California law is meant to avoid such situations.
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The death of a man killed by San Francisco police inside a Portola neighborhood home Wednesday is the third fatal officer-involved shooting this year — and also the third involving confrontations with the mentally ill inside their homes.
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Authorities are forewarning drivers about DUI checkpoints around the Bay Area for the New Year’s weekend.In San Francisco on New Year’s, there will be a checkpoint at Eighth and Folsom streets between 8:30 p.m. and 3 a.m. SFPD also plans a six-officer motorcycle DUI patrol that night.Also, take heed on Bay Area highways. As many as 80 percent of all available California Highway Patrol uniformed officers will be out in force for the New Year’s holiday, CHP said.
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The latest in a spate of gang-related shootings left an 18-year-old San Francisco man dead Tuesday night.Police said they found Maurice Williamson near Cashmere Street and Dedman Court about 7:45 p.m. He had a gunshot wound to the head. The shooting is believed to be a gang killing, Police Department spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield said. No arrests have been made, and police are asking for the public’s help.
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A man shot by a San Francisco Police Department officer following an altercation in the Portola neighborhood Wednesday afternoon has died, a police spokesman said.The man, whose identity has not been released, was transported to San Francisco General Hospital with life-threatening injuries.
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A 42-year-old San Francisco man claiming he was beaten and robbed Tuesday was arrested for making a false report of an emergency.The man summoned emergency crews in the area of Haight and Stanyan streets around 2:30 a.m., police said.Fire Department paramedics found no injuries, police said.Police took the man into custody after discovering he was wanted on two local misdemeanor warrants for the same type of incident, police said.
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Police Chief George Gascón is preparing the department for a raucous New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.So, how will police manage to monitor all the nightlife hotspots while cutting down on overtime, as Gascón has told officers will be the case this holiday season?We’ll tell you more Thursday after Gascón holds a 10:30 a.m. press conference at the Hall of Justice.bbegin@sfexaminer.com
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A man was fatally shot in the head tonight near San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, a police spokesman said.Police responded at about 7:45 p.m. to reports of a gunshot victim in the 200 block of Cashmere Street, Officer Albie Esparza said.Officers found the victim, described only as a black man in his 20s, outside. He was suffering from gunshot wounds to the head and pronounced dead at the scene, Esparza said.
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Cops are hunting a man who beat up and choked an 18-year-old woman Sunday, police said.
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While last-minute shoppers were hustling to fetch gifts in the final days before Christmas, crooks in The City were working overtime.
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