'Hot Cop of the Castro' arrested in S.F. injury hit-and-run

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Christopher Kohrs, a San Francisco police officer known affectionately on social media as the “Hot Cop of the Castro,” was arrested early Sunday morning after he allegedly plowed into two men in the city’s North Beach neighborhood and ran off.

Kohrs, 38, was off duty and driving westbound in his 2009 Dodge Charger on Broadway near Montgomery Street when he slammed into the victims, who were crossing the street around 2:20 a.m., police said. The driver ditched the car at the scene and ran away. Police found that the Charger was registered to Kohrs.

Officers later contacted and arrested Kohrs, who was booked in the San Francisco County Jail on suspicion of two felony counts of hit-and-run involving injury.

... Kohrs started getting attention for his chiseled looks and bulging muscles last year when residents in the Castro district, where he often patrolled from the city’s Park Station, began posting his photos on social media.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hot-Cop-of-the-Castro-arrested-in-S-F-6663731.php

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I'm sorry: He "...plowed into two men?" Snort.

[951-Riverside]

2. Hot Castro district Cop plows two men at the same time in San Francisco

I wonder why he ran away, DUIs are easy to contest in court. Felony hit & run is not, you'd think a cop of all people would know that.

[LeftyMom]

3. Go sober up, call your lawyer, come up with a story that you were on prescribed meds or

have a medical problem or generate some story about how somebody else was maybe driving. It doesn't have to be a great story, it just has to convince one juror who thinks a cop wouldn't lie.

No damning sobriety check video. No blood or piss test to tell the real story? And the DA will probably go easy on you because you're a cop and they need to keep the cops playing nice with their office?

Honestly, splitting was the smart thing to do. He'll probably walk or get a slap on the wrist if he gets a decent lawyer. If he sticks around and waits for the PD to show up he has to hope they'll misplace his test results and the dash cam accidentally malfunctions during his sobriety check. Which isn't unlikely (drunk cops tend to cause all kinds of machinery problems, funny how that works) but it's not a certainty.

[951-Riverside]

4. +1

That actually makes sense.