A defendant in custody attempted to flee the San Francisco Superior Court’s Hall of Justice Friday morning and was detained by deputies who chased him into the courthouse hallway.
Banging was heard in the hallway outside Department 11, where the defendant’s hearing was scheduled, before the heavy courtroom double doors flew open. A screaming man in an orange sweatsuit ran out, “with a deputy holding on for dear life,” one witness said.
Other deputies came running, and uniformed San Francisco Police officers sitting on a bench in the hallway jumped up and joined the scuffle. Law enforcement grabbed the defendant as he continued to scream and fight, the witness continued: “It was a good wrestling match.”…