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Friday, June 27, 2008

News Shot By Cop While On Phone To Cops

Posted by Matt Davis on Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:27 AM

Paul Stewart was on his cellphone negotiating with the police when Officer Stephanie Rabey shot him in the back of the head without warning last August, police records have confirmed this morning.
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Records associated with Stewart, who was sentenced to ten years in jail last week, have been kept under wraps since August 2007, when the shooting occurred. This morning, however, the Mercury was able to review almost 200 pages of those records at the Police Bureau's central precinct headquarters [a copy of all the records to take away would have cost $140, and my overdraft wouldn't allow it...]

The documents make it clear that Stewart was on his cellphone to Acting Lieutenant and Incident Commander David Golliday when he was shot. Stewart told Golliday "I'm changing my clothes" and "I'm putting some clothes on," before Rabey shot him, Golliday told investigators.

"So I don't know, I'm talking to the detective, right? And I tell 'em, I'm like, alright, let me talk to you, know what I'm saying?" Stewart told the investigators. "So I'm talking to the detective and then I'm in the back of the room and I tell him there are people out there yelling at me, just let me grab some clothes, let me grab a coat, you know what I'm saying, i'm grabbing a coat, I'm grabbing a shirt, I'm gonna grab some jeans, and I come out, man..."

An investigator asked Stewart whether he had told this to Golliday.

"Yeah, I'm telling him that," Stewart said. "I'm telling him that on the phone, and the next thing I know, I was shot."

"Following the Raymond Gwerder incident, everyone in the Police Bureau should have known how important it for officers on the scene to communicate with hostage negotiators and incident commanders before pulling the trigger," says Copwatch activist Dan Handelman.

In a further development it also emerged yesterday that Deputy District Attorney Traci Anderson, who was prosecuting Stewart, was the same Deputy DA who decided not to pursue a grand jury against the officer who shot him.

"It's an outrage that the same person who is considering whether the police committed a crime in shooting this man is the same person prosecuting him for his alleged criminal activity," Handelman continues. "It goes beyond the ordinary conflict of interest in the District Attorney's office prosecuting the police."

DA Mike Schrunk is yet to return a call for comment.

 

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Wasn't Traci Anderson in the lower third of her law school? This might go a long way in explaining her actions in this horrible fiasco. How about Mike Skank, the DA, doesn't he ride herd over his gang? As for Stephanie Rabey, I'd imagine this old gapped-tooth hag of an Amazon is about nearing retirement age and if so, we all ought to chip in a few bucks to have a going-away Retirement Party for her. I can't believe these most disgusting "public servants". They don't serve me, nor represent me in their total willful incompetence.
Posted by do they represent Y-O-U???? on June 27, 2008 at 2:00 PM · Report
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More on David Golliday, from a Nick Budnick piece in WW in 2005:

"Golliday's drunken actions at a bawdy Halloween party attended by off-duty cops and prosecutors sparked a yearlong investigation in 2001. Another cop's fiancée told investigators Golliday grabbed her breasts and reached under her skirt, and later sent cops to her home to pressure her not to complain. He was accused of grabbing at other women, too, as well as swearing at a female district attorney. Police reports also show an unusual level of smack-talk: One cop said, "Golliday was bragging about how he had killed a man with his bare hands in Detroit."

Golliday was demoted from sergeant but not charged. And this was not the first time his mouth and hands caused problems. One evening in 1994, two years after coming to Portland from the Pontiac, Ill., police department outside Chicago, Golliday responded to a family disturbance at a Northeast Portland house. When he asked the 22-year-old son, Christopher Dean, to come down from the porch and talk, Dean replied "Fuck you." Golliday and a partner dragged Dean off the porch and arrested him forcefully with mace. Golliday wrote in his report, "None of this would have happened if he had talked to us with some respect."

Accused of resisting arrest, Dean beat the charge, claiming Golliday took him to a dark, deserted corner of Lloyd Center's parking garage to rough him up before taking him to jail. In court, Golliday said he took Dean to the garage merely to search him. Golliday denied Dean's claim that the cop said, "That's how we take care of things in Chicago," and that he was forced to leave his previous job because he "kicked too many little motherfuckers' assholes like you."

Golliday did not return calls. But Golliday's former boss, retired Pontiac Chief Don Schlosser, confirmed to WW that concern among fellow cops led to Golliday's departure. Said Schlosser, "His methods were not something we wanted to perpetuate in our community.""
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Posted by Matt Davis on June 30, 2008 at 10:35 AM · Report
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Yeah, that DA was something else, wasn't she? I think the whole point Matt has been trying to make has nothing to do with the guilt or innocence of my son, but whether that female cop has any business being on the force after the many mistakes she has made. My son made a mistake, yeah, and fell in love with that crazy female that put him where he is today. Her, the DA, and probably the cop who shot my son were in cahoots, so my son sits in jail when he could be home with his family and getting help for the issues he does have, which isn't beating women. I say get the female he lived with out of Donald E Long, she has no business working in any kind of law setting. She should also be prosecuted for sleeping with my minor son, isn't that rape? Then get rid of the cop and the DA, and we might begin to have a justice system as apposed to an injustice system.
Posted by Mom on July 1, 2008 at 11:06 PM · Report
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Thanks again, Matt and Dan.
Posted by Mom on July 1, 2008 at 11:07 PM · Report
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We have some really terrific cops and politicians in this city, however we have a bad tenancy to try to cover-up mistakes when they happen. A culture of disclosure does not exist in Portland. Furthermore, I think that since many of our police officers do not deal with violent offenders on a daily basis as police do in other cities, some panic, jump-the-gun, or make careless mistakes in situations such as this one.
Posted by charlespaugh on July 3, 2008 at 6:24 AM · Report

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