Four sue police, alleging "dirty tactics"

It looks like the Portland, Oregon police department needs a lesson in civil liberties and will be needing to make out a very large check.

Frank Waterhouse is suing for unlawful seizure with excessive force, alleging that police fired a Taser and bean bag rounds at him on May 27, 2006 because he was videotaping their search of a friend's property in the 5800 block of Northeast Portland Highway.

Normally, I give the cops the benefit of the doubt.  Unfortunately, there's video taped evidence AND the laughable excuse of this:

Officers wrote in their reports that Waterhouse ran off, they chased and then bean-bagged and Tasered him. One officer wrote, "He had refused to drop the camera which could be used as a weapon."

Article has video of the last few seconds of the incident.

Time to break out the checkbook fellas, you've been caught red handed.

 

Travis

travis@rightwinglunatic.com