Raw Video: BART Officer Breaks Window With Drunk's Face
Authorities say a transit police officer was hurt and a suspect is in custody after an incident at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station Saturday evening.
BART police Cmdr. Daniel Hartwig says officers responding to a report of a disturbance around 5:40 p.m. Saturday at the West Oakland station found a man police identified as Michael Joseph Gibson, who appeared to be intoxicated, challenging others
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Hartwig says when an officer tried to take the 37-year-old Gibson into custody, a window in the train station shattered, injuring both the suspect and the officer. Hartwig says the officer suffered several lacerations and a concussion. The officer has been treated and released.
Hartwig says the suspect was treated for "minor lacerations" and arrested on suspicion of battery on an officer, resisting an officer and other charges. Less..
Added: Nov 22 2009 In: news_politics
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