A man harassed a teenage girl while impersonating a police officer on Sept. 29 in Berkeley.
A man attempting to impersonate a police officer on Sept. 29 harassed a teenage girl in Berkeley.
The girl was walking along Gilman Street after 6 p.m. when a man began following her, according to a statement issued Thursday by the Berkeley Police Department.
According to police, he told her that he was an officer with a gun, and demanded she give him a hug.
She rebuffed him and tried to walk away when he pursued her, telling her again that, "he was a police officer, had a gun and that she needed to listen to him," and blocked her path, according to the statement. The girl was able to escape and after getting somewhere safe, she phoned the police.
The man was then captured on video fleeing the area.
Berkeley police said that the suspect is a "white male, in his 30s, about 5'8" to 6' tall, with an athletic build, with short hair, wearing a black baseball cap, a dark short sleeve (possibly a gray polo shirt with a light logo on the left side of the shirt), cargo pants and an American flag neck gaiter used as a face covering."
Community members with information about the suspect are asked to please contact BPD’s Sex Crimes Unit at (510) 981-5735. Police also ask that anyone living in the Gilman Street, Acton Street and Hopkins Street area who might have a security camera please look over the footage from that day in case the suspect might have been captured on camera.
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