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SF cops honored for arresting suspect who tried to take officer's gun
SAN FRANCISCO – Body-camera video shows the moment two San Francisco police officers caught up with a suspect after he had been driving recklessly in a stolen red Hyundai and took off from them.
As rookie Officer Casey Chow and Officer Anthony Quimbo of Northern Station approached the suspect near Jefferson Square Park in November, he refused to cooperate and struggled with the officers.
“Didn’t want to listen to any commands, and he started fighting with both of us,” Quimbo said.
All three fell to the ground. That’s when police say the suspect grabbed Chow’s gun, using both hands to try to get it out of the holster.
“Get your hand off of his gun!” Quimbo yelled at the suspect.
He called into dispatch, “10-25!” requesting backup. “He’s grabbing our gun!”
“There’s definitely an adrenaline rush, definitely some fear. But at that moment, it’s either fight or flight,” Chow said.
Officer Quimbo hit the suspect to prevent him from grabbing Chow’s gun.
Sheriff’s deputies arrived to assist.
“Sheriff’s units are 97. Show us taking one into cuffs,” Quimbo said into his radio.
The suspect could have gotten shot, but he wasn’t.
“He was trying to grab my partner’s gun,” Quimbo told responding deputies.
Chow told KTVU, “I think definitely if it were a different circumstance or different officers, I think deadly force definitely would have been justified.”
Quimbo said, “At the end of the day, you know, I wasn’t seriously hurt, my partner wasn’t seriously hurt and, thankfully, the suspect wasn’t seriously hurt, either.”
At a City Hall ceremony on Wednesday, the officers were among those honored for their efforts.
“We call, and you come running,” said Mayor Daniel Lurie. “You don’t ask questions, you show up, and to me that is true public service.”
Public service, says Chief Bill Scott, often goes unnoticed.
“It’s always, ‘when it bleeds, it leads,’” Scott said. “And we see, usually, the worst stories. We don’t get to tell the best stories.”
Chow agreed, saying, “I think the police should be transparent about what happens, good and bad. I think it’s great for the public to kind of get a glimpse of what we go through in a day.”
Henry Lee is a KTVU crime reporter. E-mail Henry at Henry.Lee@fox.com and follow him on Twitter @henrykleeKTVU and www.facebook.com/henrykleefan
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San Francisco Giants Receive Intriguing Pitching Prospect in Rogers Trade
The San Francisco Giants recently made a deal to send one of their relievers, Taylor Rogers, to the Cincinnati Reds, and in return will receive right-handed relief prospect Braxton Roxby.
This deal comes as a likely money-saving move for the Giants, who are able to shed Rogers’ $12 million contract remaining from his initial three-year deal and get a prospect to do so.
Looking at Roxby, he was an undrafted free agent in the 2020 MLB Draft class, and at 25 years old has worked his way up to AA in the four seasons since being selected. He has split time between the High-A and AA levels for most of his minor league career, pitching in 49 games and 81 games, respectively.
The reason for the distinct split between those two feeder teams and having not made AAA yet is due to his significant production drop-off at the AA level. But, 2024 was an improvement for Roxby compared to his prior seasons, as he stuck in AA for the entire season and was able to post a lower ERA than his average there with 5.21.
With High-A Dayton, he had a combined 3.17 ERA, with a 1.202 WHIP, 152 strikeouts to 53 walks, 12 saves, and a 9-6 record in 110.2 innings pitched. Then moving up to Double-AA, those numbers inflated to a 6.41 ERA, 1.559 WHIP, 81 strikeouts to 26 walks, three saves, and an 0-4 record in 59.0 innings pitched.
The most intriguing part about his game is the strikeout totals mentioned, as 233 strikeouts to 79 walks (a 2.95 SO/BB ratio) are impressive coming up through the farm system. The difficulty has been keeping the exit velocity on his pitches down, and avoiding consistent contact in general.
In Double-A he had a whopping 28.8% strikeout rate in 2024, which is a huge positive when it comes to being able to develop him into a reliable reliever.
Fangraphs had Roxby within the Reds’ top 40 prospects entering 2024, ranked at No. 38. A glimpse at their analysis of him notes that he’s a side-arm reliever with a mid-90s fastball and a pair or breaking balls.
“He may not have the command to be a true on-roster middle inning guy, but he has rare arm strength for a pitcher with a slot this low and projects as an up/down specialist type,” per Fangraphs.
A Rogers trade had been somewhat anticipated, considering the financial implications in doing so. When it comes to getting a return prospect in a contract-dumping deal, usually the results are not spectacular. Getting a player back with strong slider motion, a high strikeout rate and some tools to work with for the future is a solid piece to get back for San Francisco.
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Final touches being made on floats for San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade
As San Francisco prepares to welcome its annual Chinese New Year Festival and Parade, to celebrate the Year of the Snake, the people who build the floats for the parade are busy with the finishing touches.
“It’s really cool that there is so much hand-built artwork on display,” said Lacey Bryant.
This will be Bryant’s 10th year creating sculptures for the floats in the parade.
“Every animal is going to teach me something new,” she said.
And creating for the Year of the Snake certainly has offered learning opportunities.
“This one was kind of a challenge because it had to float most of its body up in the air,” she said, pointing towards an intricate design. “So, it only touches the float in a couple of spots. It’s kind of a cool sculptural piece really.”
She’ll make around a dozen sculptures for the parade. It’ll take her anywhere from a few days to a week to carve each one. Some are small; some are quite big.
“This particular one is 9 feet this way, 6 feet this way, and 8 feet this way,” she said.
Bryant said she loves getting to work on large-scale projects like the ones in the parade.
“It’s a fun process. It’s like there’s a puzzle that I have to figure out,” she said. “They get to be big and exciting, and I like that.”
San Francisco’s Chinese New Year Parade is the biggest parade celebrating the Lunar New Year outside of Asia.
“The amount of manpower and women power that’s going into the design, the fabrication, the installation, the decoration — It’s a huge, huge effort by a very talented group of people,” said Stephanie Mufson, owner of the Parade Guys, the company that builds the floats. “They’re something that we put so much love and effort into this, just seeing it bring the joy to all the people around is really gratifying and rewarding.”
That is one of the many reasons why Lacey keeps coming back to create.
“It’s wonderful to be a part of it. It’s such an important event for the city and the community here,” she said.
Come parade time, when she sees people smile when they see her creations, it brings a big smile to her face.
“Oh, it’s wonderful. There’s really nothing like it,” she said.
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