SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – The San Francisco District Attorney's Office is investigating its first police shooting since Brooke Jenkins assumed the office last month.
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San Francisco police said in a press release that officers fired their guns while pursuing a man on foot whom they tried to detain in the area of South Van Ness Avenue and 16th Street on Saturday morning. Neither the man, nor the officers sustained gunshot wounds, according to police.
Officials didn't identify the man, nor did they specify the crime he was suspected of committing. San Francisco police didn't say how many officers pursued the man, and officials didn't specify how many officers fired their weapons.
Police said the man "continued to shoot at officers" as he "concealed himself behind a vehicle," before the San Francisco Police Department's tactical unit took him into custody and transported him to a nearby hospital for an injury that officials said was not life threatening.
Under city policy, the district attorney's office, the police department's investigative services division, its internal affairs division and the Department of Police Accountability will now investigate the shooting. It's the first such case to occur under Jenkins' purview to occur since taking over for her recalled predecessor, Chesa Boudin.
Jenkins appointed veteran prosecutor Darby Williams as the Independent Investigations Bureau's managing attorney on July 21. Williams served as an Assistant District Attorney in the bureau under current Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón, who served in the same role in San Francisco from 2011 to '19.
Rebecca Young, a former assistant district attorney in the bureau whom Jenkins fired a week before Williams' appointment, told the San Francisco Chronicle in July that Williams has an "inherent bias in favor of an officer’s story." Williams served in the bureau, but told the paper she didn't make the decision not to charge two San Francisco police officers in the 2016 Mission District killing of Luis Góngora Pat.
The San Francisco Police Department will hold a town hall within 10 days of Saturday's shooting, during which officers will share updates on the investigation.
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