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Friday, January 27, 2012

Film / Cops Actual Police Negotiating With Actual Man on Ledge in Downtown Portland

Posted by Sarah Mirk on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:47 PM

Tonight, a terrible Hollywood film has come to life in the worst of ways.

Portland Police press release sent at 8:58pm:


Portland Police Negotiating With Man on a Ledge in Downtown Portland

This evening, Friday January 27, 2012, Portland Police officers assigned to Central Precinct responded to the report of a man on a 2nd story ledge of the Henry Building Apartments, located at 309 Southwest 4th Avenue.

Officers arrived and have been talking with the man and have called for Crisis Negotiators and a limited deployment of the Special Emergency Reaction Team (SERT) to respond.

Anyone know how that movie ends? I hope this real-life drama turns out safely.

UPDATE:

Crisis Negotiators talked with the man, a 30-year-old male, for more than 2 hours. Just before 11:00 p.m., negotiators convinced the man to leave the ledge and climb back into his room. Once he was in the room, SERT officers entered the room and took him safely into custody.

 

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1
Sorry, but kind of crass to compare this situation to a stupid Hollywood flick.
Anyways, i so hope that this doesn't become yet another "suicidal person murdered by cop". Hopefully they've learned something in the last few days, years...ok, maybe not.
Still, they did a great job dealing with John Griffin. i knew him well & he is not a violent man, but he is seriously mentally ill. i was so relieved to learn that he came out of it alive. THAT is how it should be done. Whoever this person is, i hope that they fare as well. And they don't end up as yet another PPB murder.
Posted by kalikill on January 27, 2012 at 10:20 PM · Report
2
Did he just see the movie?
Posted by Spindles on January 28, 2012 at 12:04 AM · Report
3
... second story? Is he threatening to break his ankle?
Posted by Ovidius on January 28, 2012 at 12:22 AM · Report
4
So it's basically this:
http://improveverywhere.com/2005/12/10/sui…
or this:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/2348/saturday-ni…

(Just kidding, I hope everything works out, and if he somehow dies from a second story ledge, I'll feel like a real asshole tomorrow. But I doubt that.)
Posted by no one in particular on January 28, 2012 at 2:08 AM · Report
5
Crisis averted.

http://www.portlandonline.com/police/pbnot…
Posted by Sok on January 28, 2012 at 7:32 AM · Report
6
He wanted to jump from a 30 story ledge, but he was afraid he might change his mind on the way down, so he decided to jump from the second story 30 times, just in case. (Thanks Jam!)
Posted by spudboy on January 28, 2012 at 10:48 AM · Report
7
@1 pretty much, but Number Six expressed it better. Nice stupid "ironic"headline. Pathetic.
Posted by The Showstopper on January 28, 2012 at 11:49 AM · Report
8
These public jumpers never really want to jump, they want attention. That's why the attention getters always want to jump in a visible space. The people with real intent just do it.
Posted by Andy from Beaverton on January 28, 2012 at 2:27 PM · Report
9
Has it been verified that it was an actual ledge that this actual man was on?
Posted by Totalitariland on January 28, 2012 at 4:45 PM · Report

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