hmm, this makes you wonder if something fishy was up with his resignation. like the city saying to him 'we intend to fire you, and we have ample evidence to do that, our lawyers tell us it will happen, so why don't you just make things easier on everybody and quit.'

Makes you WONDER, Lyle? Change your name to Hercule Poirot, this instant.

In case any Beavertonians want to get up to speed on Sery, click my name for the hullabaloo as viewed through the lens of ye olde Communique.

haha. is that in insult or a compliment?

i can't figure anything out today, i have the flu and feel like i'm in an alternate universe.

A compliment, lyle. Get well soon.

I'm a little disappointed in you, Matt. I thought you might have learned something in the Citizen's Academy. Apparently not. How many times in the PRISM scenerios did you shoot a guy that was just taking out his wallet...or how many times did you not shoot the guy that pulled out a gun and shot you because you thought he was going to take out his wallet? I figured you may have learned cops have to make immediate decisions in intense and stressful situations. There is no luxury of hindsight. Make the wrong decision and you may not go home.

Looks to me like Portland's loss in Beaverton's gain. Sery is one of the best cops to ever work in Portland and the citizens in Beaverton are lucky to have him. It's just too bad he was treated so poorly after Perez forced him to take action...the appropriate action.

I know my comment here is likely to make waves and there may even be people who make snide comments. I'm not even going to respond to those. My opinion is you can't reason with unreasonable people.

Not at all—we like waves, mate. Thanks for commenting.

As I said the Perez shooting was before my time, but your statement that the officer he was forced to take the "appropriate action" is itself editorializing.

He shot an unarmed man. That's not appropriate. If an officer's training, the PRISM machine included, sets him up to believe that every suspect he encounters could be armed with a concealed 22, is that good training? Is it appropriate?

I don't believe it is.

Leave it to Not Matt Davis to over-generalize rather than address any of the specifics of the Perez case itself. (And I say that as someone who, despite Sery being the shooter, to this day believes that it was Macomber who was truly at fault.)

Several years ago, while doing a ridealong with PDX Cops, I witnessed a scene that greatly increased my respect for these men and women. I probably would have pulled the trigger, but they didn't - turns out the guy was just showing them that he didn't have a gun in his belt, but it sure looked like he was pulling one out (I was 30 feet away).

I expected to hear pop, pop, pop and see him drop. Instead, they showed incredible restraint.

I don't know that I'd ever want to be put in the situation where a split-second decision haunts me the rest of my life.

Hmmmm! Ask anyone in Beaverton that knows
BPD's Chief David Bishop and they'll tell
you that such a stunt as this is something
he'd pull, as he's not known to be one of
the sharpest knives in the drawer.

This is truly astounding "news", but when taken
into consideration the players in the little game
they've got going, it's not at all surprising.

My regards to the citizens of Beaverton that I'm
sure do NOT support Chief Bishop and his latest
silly stunt.

Sery is a known commodity and he's already
done a dastardly deed while under pressure
before and he'll no doubt do it again.

When he kills someone in Beaverton under what
will surely be questionable circumstances, I hope
the family involved sues the hell out Sery, Bishop
and the City of Beaverton and makes them pay
dearly for this latest act of deliberate in-your-face
STUPIDITY!

I'm coming to this a bit late, granted, but isn't this the same stink that's raised every time a minority person gets shot? As I understand it, the deceased disobeyed a number of lawful commands and appeared to be reaching for something. You need to remember, police don't want to die on the job anymore than you or I.

Now if he was issuing racial epithets at the deceased or was in the habit of derogating minorities, maybe a case can be made for a racial angle, but when a cop is pointing a gun at me and telling me to do something, I will do it, examining even innocent motions before I do them for how they might appear to the person with the gun.

Yes, teens and oppressed minorities resent the police for reasons both rational and irrational, but disobeying a policeman pointing a gun is NOT the way to go if you want to live.