Video Shows 6 San Francisco Police Officers Shoot Armed Guard Near Union Square

Updated 3:40 p.m. Tuesday

San Francisco police on Monday released body camera footage showing the Dec. 20 fatal shooting of an armed security guard near Union Square.

Authorities also identified the man as Peter Hodge Jr., 50, during a video briefing.

Police were trying to arrest Hodge seven hours after he was suspected of driving onto the sidewalk at Sutter and Kearny streets, hitting two pedestrians and a bicyclist.

Body cam footage shows six officers discussing a plan to arrest Hodge, then confronting him in front of the Dior store at Grant Avenue and Post Street.

The officers shout at Hodge to put his hands up and turn around.

“For what?” Hodge says, walking toward the officers.

One officer uses a BolaWrap restraint device to fire a Kevlar cord at Hodge, but it does not restrain him. He puts his hands down and turns to walk away.

Another officer then fires a less-lethal beanbag shotgun at Hodge, who reaches toward his waistband and appears to raise a handgun before officers open fire, and he collapses to the ground.

Six officers fired their guns, police said during Monday’s briefing. Investigators recovered a loaded Glock pistol from the scene, they said.

Body cam footage shows one officer requesting an ambulance while using tourniquets and trying to treat Hodge’s gunshot wounds. Hodge later died at a hospital, according to SFPD’s report.

“I want to acknowledge the seriousness of this incident and the emotional and physical trauma to everyone involved,” SFPD Lieutenant Dean Hall said. “In response to this, we have requested the deployment of the Department of Public Health comprehensive crisis services team.”

Hall said that police are still trying to identify the bicyclist Hodge struck hours before his stand-off with officers.

That happened around 6:30 p.m. Dec. 19, when police got reports of a driver speeding and driving recklessly on the sidewalk in apparent pursuit of a man on an electric bicycle. The driver struck and injured an 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl who were coming out of a Chipotle restaurant, police said, then continued to chase after the bicyclist.

After the driver hit the e-bike a block away, the bicyclist got up and ran away as the driver tried to put the bike in his vehicle, police said.

The woman and girl were taken to a hospital with minor injuries, according to police.

KQED’s Gilare Zada contributed to this report.