The District Attorney’s office has dropped its case against Richard Prentice, the 33-year-old PSU senior allegedly arrested and intimidated for taping an anti-cop poster to the wall of the Federal Courthouse at SW 3rd and Salmon on Flag Day, June 14.PRENTICE: Angry with cops…

If you fancy ruining a good mood, you can read more about what happened here, and about one accused cop’s response to our reporting here. Prentice went to community court yesterday, planning to contest the charges against him for “advertising on the street”—hoping to force the officer who arrested him to testify on the stand. But he was given a slip of paper reading “no complaint,” telling him the District Attorney has decided not to pursue his case, but that it reserves the right to do so for a year.

“But I don’t think they’re going to do that,” he says. “It would look pretty obviously retaliatory if they pressed charges against me after filing a complaint.”

“I hope they don’t change their minds when Mr. Prentice files a lawsuit against the Portland Police Bureau for violating his right to free speech,” says Prentice’s attorney, Benjamin Haile—Prentice plans to sue the police bureau for breach of his first and fourth amendment rights to free speech and against unreasonable seizure.