US cops shoot, kill man on street
The street was closed for hours as police investigated the incident.
Police shot and killed a man who officers say was stabbing another man on the city’s busy downtown Market Street on Wednesday.
Police Chief Bill Scott told reporters the shooting happened shortly before 11.30 am when officers walking their usual beat in a neighborhood crowded with shoppers and tourists enjoying a warm day came upon the stabbing.
He said a white man was stabbing an Asian man. The stabbing victim was taken to a hospital. “Loss of life is always tragic no matter how it happens,” Scott said. “We try to avoid it when we can, but we have an obligation to protect the public.”
The shooting occurred in the heart of San Francisco’s downtown above a congested transit station, across the street from a large, upscale mall with a popular food court and just steps from where thousands of tourists line up every year to ride the city’s famous cable cars. Scott said the suspect was shot while the stabbing “was in progress.” “In the course of intervening, one of the officers discharged a firearm,” Scott said. The street was closed for hours as police investigated the incident.