Man Found Guilty of Tackling, Punching, Trying to Steal the Firearm of SFPD Officer at UN Plaza

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/15/man-found-guilty-of-tackling-punching-trying-to-steal-the-firearm-of-sfpd-officer-at-un-plaza/A pretty brazen 1 am attack on an on-duty SFPD officer has drawn the exact response you’d expect, and a 31-year-old man is looking at likely serious jail time after being found guilty of three counts of threatening and battering an officer. We’ve all seen some pretty wild shit go down at Civic Center’s UN Plaza. But have you ever seen someone punch out a cop at UN Plaza, wrestle that cop to the ground, and then attempt to steal his gun? Meet 31-year-old Jonathan Bissell, who was just found guilty of doing exactly this according to the Chronicle, which is likely to ensure his incarceration for a great deal of the foreseeable futur