Idaho charges Portland road rage cop
Maxine Bernstein at the O has all the details on the charges filed against the Portland police captain who allegedly pointed his gun at a passing motorist in a road rage incident on I-90 in Idaho this past August.
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Maybe this was a turning point, thanks to an unidentified Mult.Co. prosecutor quoted by Wyatt (he could be lying, though) in that 2005 WWeek article:
* Once, at 18th and Sumner, a teenager was running with a gun in his waistband. Wyatt drove up alongside, his right hand on the wheel, his left hand pointing a pistol at the kid, yelling at him: "Drop it! Drop it!"
The boy stuck the gun under his arm, said "don't shoot me," and ran away. He turned out to have shot a girl earlier that night and was charged with attempted murder.
"I remember the prosecutor telling me, 'You know, Todd, if you had just shot this guy we wouldn't have had this trouble of convicting him,'" says Wyatt. "He was serious."
Wyatt did not always behave with such restraint. And he soon became a focus of police Internal Affairs complaints and threats of lawsuits (see sidebar) from the residents of Northeast.
Posted by Mojo | November 23, 2011 12:03 PM
The sad part is the Shooting, Beating and Pepper Spraying by the Portland Police is actually considered a crime in other parts of the North West.
Sounds like the "Sailors" need a briefing on how to behave in the host country when they leave ship.
Posted by dman | November 23, 2011 12:07 PM