SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) -- Suspended Oakland Raiders player Aldon Smith was detained Thursday morning in San Francisco after a vehicle he was a passenger in collided with a San Francisco police car near police headquarters, authorities said.
Smith, 27, was detained after he and two other passengers in a Yukon sport utility vehicle were questioned after the vehicle struck an undercover police car on the China Basin Street side of the city’s Public Safety Building around 8:30 a.m., police said.
Two San Francisco police officers were taken to San Francisco General Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, police said. Their identities were not immediately released.
Smith was detained for public intoxication and expected to be released when he is sober and no charges will be filed, police said.
This is a very sad story out of San Francisco today. Aldon Smith, who was possibly weeks away from NFL reinstatement, was detained by San Francisco police for public intoxication after a car he was a passenger in hit a cop car.
We will refrain from commenting on the video. You can draw your own conclusions about the state of Aldon Smith...
Hopefully he gets the help he needs. Forget football.