A San Francisco man was charged with assaulting a peace officer with a deadly weapon after allegedly stabbing a Daly City officer with a pair of scissors in what he later told police was an attempt to get officers to shoot him, prosecutors said.

Anthony Sandoval Lopez, 23, also faces charges of making a false report and obstructing an officer, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.

“This young man is obviously suffering some mental illness,” said San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe.

“It was a felony act when he tried to stab the officer,” Wagstaffe added. “If the appropriate resolution is mental health treatment of some sort, the fact is a felony will have a better chance of getting the best treatment possible in terms of resources devoted to it.”

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