An SFPD officer assigned to Oakland was nearly killed on the job Tuesday, in an eventful car chase that featured a murder attempt, a wrong-way chase on I-580, and Oakland Police opening fire for reasons even they can’t explain.
A San Francisco Police Department officer can occasionally be assigned to work in Oakland. One SFPD officer had such duty Tuesday, with SFPD’s Community Violence Reduction Team. And that officer was almost killed by a vehicle driven by a wanted SF criminal, in a story full of puzzling and bizarre chapters.
But the long and the short of it is that the suspect is charged for trying to murder an SFPD officer with his car, as KTVU reports. (He did manage to hit and slightly injure the officer). 26-year-old Joseph Willis II is now charged with attempted muder of a peace officer, plus a slew of other charges, after a highly eventful Tuesday afternoon…