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Proof that you don’t mess with Pulitzer Prize winners, the San Francisco Chronicle proudly reports that one of their former, Prize-winning photographers, Kim Komenich, single-handedly broke up a bank robbery this week. Komenich won the Pulitzer back in 1987, shooting a series about the revolution in the Philippines (though for the Examiner, not the Chronicle). He had also covered stories in El Salvador and Iraq, the paper reports, among a number of other places at their most dangerous, which helps explain how he decided to take the law into his own hands when he suddenly found himself in the middle of a bank job:

When Fernandes reached into his pocket, Komenich said he thought to himself, “If anything bad is going to happen, it’s going to happen next.”

So Komenich walked over to the suspect. “I clamped him down in a bear hug,” said Komenich, who stands 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 260 pounds. Fernandes is about 5-foot-10 “and maybe 180,” Komenich said.

Komenich said he wasn’t sure, but that he may have lifted the suspect off the ground for a moment. “That sort of established that I had him,” he said. Fernandes didn’t resist, he said.

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