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Quick Flashes PPR #61 Although Sunnyside, Washington librarian Thomas Warren was arrested for videoing a SWAT team search, a judged ordered charges of obstructing an officer dropped and police offered an apology for unlawfully arresting him. Officers arrested and cited Warren in August for failing to leave a secured perimeter when requested by Sunnyside Sgt. Olie Hernandez. The police report claims Warren had crossed the perimeter and would not leave when asked. However, Warren's footage shows there was no warning tape and that Sgt. Hernandez threatened to arrest Warren if he didn't stop filming. "We made a mistake, we own it," stated Sunnyside Deputy Police Chief Phil Schenck, after the charges against Warren were dropped at the request of both the police and the prosecutors. Schenck scheduled a refresher training course in constitutional law and search and seizure procedures for the department (Yakima Herald, August 21).
In September and October, three Oregon police officers faced accusations of sexual misconduct. On September 5, Oregon State Police detective Richard Narvaez was charged with patronizing a prostitute and official misconduct; he resigned the next day. Narvaez was suspended by the OSP without pay on August 6 after he was discovered having sex with a woman in an empty lot near the Fred Meyer on SE Johnson Creek Boulevard. He pleaded guilty in Clackamas County Court to one count of official misconduct and was sentenced to seven days in jail. He has been required to relinquish his state law enforcement credentials (Oregonlive, September 6 and October 14). In Lake Oswego, two former police officers had their credentials revoked by the state Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Martin Bradford and Joshua Day can never work in Oregon law enforcement again after they were found to have violated Oregon moral fitness standards by being "dishonest, disregarding the rights of others, misusing authority, engaging in misconduct and gross misconduct and insubordination" (Oregonlive, October 24). While on duty, Bradford and Day each had sex with two different female employees. The women were were off duty, thus were not disciplined. The two officers resigned in October 2012 during internal investigations.
On-duty Portland Officer Lino Pavon (#51792) arrested a man for slashing his police car's tires in September, but ended up being the subject of an internal investigation because he was with a married woman with whom he was having an affair at the time of the incident. The District Attorney dropped the charges against the alleged tire-slasher, apparently because he was acting on behalf of the woman's husband (Oregonian, December 6).
A YouTube video showing Portland officers yelling at, firing a Taser at, then piling on a man suffering a mental health crisis in a supermarket on November 15 prompted the cops to post a news release on the incident. Using passive voice, they say the man "suffered a bloody nose while on the ground."
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January, 2014
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