BART Riders and Police Injured In Some Sort of Pepper Spray Incident at Powell Station

An assailant may have sprayed pepper spray at police officers on the platform of Powell Street Station, or someone did, and the incident led BART trains to temporarily bypass the station Saturday afternoon.

The incident happened sometime around 12:30 pm Saturday, and BART issued an alert at 12:45 pm to avoide Powell Street Station due to police activity.

As KTVU reports via BART rider Carlos Hernandez, a BART train was stopped in the station and Hernandez says he was exposed to the pepper-spray cloud…

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