http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/10/29/police_bureau_hits_out_at_merc_1 Comments On: Police Bureau Hits Out At Mercury Coverage by Matt Davis en-us Copyright 2009 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Mr. Newby did the best thing he could for himself that night, considering his options... he just happen to not have made it.
Now, it was unfortunate that Mr. Newby did have that out-standing fine, that's his fault. But without knowing any of that [at the time], the cowardly police would've simply beat & tasered him regardless.

The cops here in Portland are wild animals. You can [try] & run away, you can try & engage them (civily). Either way though, it won't do you any damned good.
Posted by DamosA]]> Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:50:43 -0800 Portland Mercury
Mr. Newby didn't really do anything other than be a drunk dick, which isn't a crime, but public intoxication is. Also, rule number one is: when a cop says stop I want to talk to you the first thing you shouldn't do is RUN AWAY FROM THE COP. It instantly arouses suspicion the the cop that you did something wrong and don't want to get caught. Then once the cop catches you don't swing at him with your fist. This makes cops angry and if you don't stop swinging at you they shoot Tasers at you.
Posted by BlackedOut]]> Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:58:00 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by DamosA]]> Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:06:59 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by BlackedOut]]> Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:39:11 -0700 Portland Mercury BS!
Cops NEVER follow their own procedures/proticals. And they fabricate (e.i. out-right lie) documents as a way of standard practice. This is pretty common knowlege, how cops behave. And only a cop [or an idiot] would argue otherwise.

Posted by DamosA]]> Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:32:57 -0700 Portland Mercury
I'd rather they not reach for the Taser when talking to someone would suffice.
Posted by Amy J. Ruiz]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:31:33 -0700 Portland Mercury
BS. The confrontational drunk/wanted suspects ask for it in the majority of cases. Cops have to follow procedure and document down to the millisecond.
All anyone else has to do is whine and blame cops.

As for the anti-taser fans, would you rather them shoot bullets?
Posted by D]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:23:43 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by newswatcher]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:54:01 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Matt Davis]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:37:45 -0700 Portland Mercury These NUMOROUS incidents just go to show what a LYING SACK OF COWARDS the police in this city(PPB) are! They already had Mr. Newby for trying to run away (though he aparently hadn't commited any crime at the time). So for these [cops] to beat & electrocute non-violent/non-confrontational citizens without cause, theeen to LIE about it in their reports (which they then make it awfully hard for citizens to obtain... i should damn well know) is down-right loathsome, to say the least!


Btw,
If anyone out there needs individuals who'd be willing to enter into a class-action suit AGAINST PPB/city of Portland, I'M IN!

nekrotical@yahoo.com
Posted by DamosA]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:24:39 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by jus-sayin...]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:45:47 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Kentonite]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:45:13 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Ansel]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:35:44 -0700 Portland Mercury
From the victim's perspective, he did not want anything to do with the cops and was going to keep on going until he was tackled, bitten and tasered.
Posted by citizen]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:21:12 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by one more time around]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:48:29 -0700 Portland Mercury
[sorry for the thread rot]
Posted by A cat]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:32:15 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by idrinktheline]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:31:09 -0700 Portland Mercury

Posted by Alf]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:46:02 -0700 Portland Mercury