On KATU-TV 2 in the 5:00 PM news slug, they reported that the three Tasers each failed to operate.

If true, yet another indictment of the utter failure of management at PPB.

Surely they have to have an armorer who has responsibility for routine maintenance and testing of the friggin' equipment! Or is it another example of the cops without function radios who therefore can't communicate with each other?

Pathetic leadership and management, of which Reese is just anpother sorry example, in a mess which has been going on for 30 years.

One account says that the Tasers may not have worked because the target was wearing a hooded sweatshirt. Barney Fife would be so proud.

Hey, they fired the police chief and put in a new one. What do you want? Real change in the Police Bureau?

What I have yet to hear in the discussions of these shootings is the use of some petty pretext for a traffic stop.

Failure to signal!

Really now, how often is that ignored, except when they want an excuse to stop someone?

Seems to me a violation of equal protection: Either stop EVERY observed incidence of an offense or NONE. Anything else is a lack of equal protection.

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The more sorry joke is that in yesterday's paper version of the O (that I only saw because I was waiting for my dental appt.) was an article clearing the PPB of any racist behavior. Dayum, those are some powerful hallucinogens the PPB has to give its investigators.

And I have to wonder why it's taking so long to process the evidence on the bullets that Burley. Maybe a FIA is in order on that.

I've been stopped for lesser offenses (broken tail light), and I was sober, polite, and complied with the officer's instructions. I've also been frisked on a prior occassion (even though I am white!). In neither instance did I provoke the cop or give them any reason to fear me. I never shot at them either.

Fixed the tail light the first time (they waived the fine), and got no citation the second time. I don't believe the color of my skin had anything to do with their treatment of me, I do believe my attitude and behavior were duly noted.

What I have yet to hear in the discussions of these shootings is the use of some petty pretext for a traffic stop.

Well, according to the report cited by the Oregonian this morning, one of the officers in the car that first started following hims told another "kind of looks like he could be a gangster". You know the type: young, African-American male, wearing a hoodie, suspiciously driving a Corolla registered to some woman old enough to be his mother.

What I have yet to hear in the discussions of these shootings is the use of some petty pretext for a traffic stop

Probably because that WASN'T the reason for the stop. That was the reason for running the plates.

The traffic stop was for making lane changes w/o using a turn signal and for failure to pull over.

The more sorry joke is that in yesterday's paper version of the O (that I only saw because I was waiting for my dental appt.) was an article clearing the PPB of any racist behavior. Dayum, those are some powerful hallucinogens the PPB has to give its investigators.

So you have some proof it was racist?

The traffic stop was for making lane changes w/o using a turn signal

Because, you know, being followed by cops running your plates while you're a black guy in Portland would never make anyone nervous. And everyone else properly signals when they change lanes at all times, right?

for failure to pull over

It's getting tricky. They can stop you for failing to pull over? And once they've done it, don't forget that you waive your right to remain silent if you don't speak up!