Source: San Francisco Examiner Contact: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 Website: http://www.examiner.com Author: Zachary Coile OF THE EXAMINER STAFF Website: http://www.sfgate.com/ COP HURT BREAKING UP FIGHT Struck by car while interrupting possible drug deal A police officer who was attempting to break up a fight possibly over a narcotics transaction was injured slightly early Tuesday when a car ran into him, police said. The incident at the corner of Sixth and Mission streets began shortly before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday when the officer and his partner saw two men in a rented 1998 Pontiac Grand Am arguing with a man holding a bottle. The officers pulled over and intervened. After managing to handcuff one of the men from the car on the street, the driver backed up the vehicle and hit one officer in the legs, knocking him onto the trunk, said Lt. Rich Reyes of Southern station. When the driver, identified as Jessie McBroom, 21, began pulling the car forward toward the other officer, both cops each fired three shots at the car, shattering the driver's side window, Reyes said. McBroom was treated at San Francisco General Hospital for a grazing head wound, according to Lt. Dave Robinson, head of the homicide detail which investigates all shootings involving officers. The injured officer, whose name was not released, was treated at the hospital for bruises and contusions of the right thigh and released. Robinson said McBroom and his brother, Jimmy, 22, were the two men in the car and that they had apparently just arrived from Astoria, N.Y. The man with the bottle, with whom they were arguing, fled when police stopped. A "saleable quantity" of suspected crack cocaine was found on one of the McBrooms, Robinson said. Robinson said the names of the officers involved and further details would be available after investigators had talked to all the parties involved. The McBrooms were being held, but specific charges are pending, he said. Malcolm Glover of The Examiner staff contributed to this report. )1998 San Francisco Examiner