Excessive force (and then some) in Portland OR

[unixronin]

Thank ilcylic for these two accounts of Portland, OR police beating up and pepper-spraying a blind, half-deaf, 71-year-old woman and her 94-year-old mother for the heinous crime of trying to make sure a city employee wasn't mistakenly hauling off a 90-year-old antique wagon along with her yard waste.  Portland PD continue to insist they did nothing wrong, and were in fear for their lives from these two handicapped geriatrics.

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[jilara.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of justifiable public uproar over these incidents. The Vietnamese woman was holding a vegetable peeler, understandable for a kitchen, and the officer said he "thought she had a knife and feared for his life." This from an armed cop, facing a 110 lb woman in her kitchen.