drunk off duty cop pounds on house displaying BLM flag, challenging for fight. cop drives him home

[Demovictory9]

Off-duty officer 'terrorized' family displaying Black Lives Matter flag, and police drove him home without arrest



https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/An-off-duty-cop-terrorized-a-family-displaying-16164698.php

Just after midnight on Halloween, a blaring car alarm and a loud banging sound startled Mirella Castaneda and woke her young son.

A man stood in her driveway in Forest Grove, Ore., slamming his fist into the Black Lives Matter flag draped over the metal garage door as the security alarm on the family's pickup truck continued to beep.

Castaneda immediately called 911 - but when police showed up they recognized the man as an off-duty officer named Steven Teets.

Instead of arresting Teets, though, one of the responding officers simply drove him home.

Now, Teets and that officer, Bradley Schuetz, face criminal charges in the incident that Castaneda's lawyers say "terrorized" her family.


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Steve Myers, who is representing Schuetz, told The Washington Post that his client had limited options after confronting Teets because the local center where police take intoxicated individuals had been closed and the county jail was not holding people charged with misdemeanors, because of the pandemic.

Myers said Schuetz said taking Teets to his nearby home was the best way to handle the unusual situation.

https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/507921-406356-forest-grove-police-officer-charged-over-steven-teets-incident

Another Forest Grove police officer has been arrested in connection with an incident last October in which a family reported being terrorized in the middle of the night by an off-duty cop.

Bradley Schuetz allegedly picked up Steven Teets, the off-duty cop, and gave him a ride home after Forest Grove homeowner Mirella Castaneda told a 9-1-1 dispatcher that Teets — a stranger to her — was on her front porch, pounding on her door and challenging the residents to come out and fight.

Beaverton police were asked to investigate the Forest Grove Police Department's response. The Beaverton Police Department announced Friday afternoon, May 7, that its investigation led to Schuetz being arrested and charged with first-degree official misconduct, a Class A misdemeanor crime.

A grand jury formally indicted Schuetz on Thursday, May 6, according to Beaverton police.

Teets is charged with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct, for which he is awaiting trial.

Castaneda has also filed a lawsuit against him. She believes Teets' behavior was triggered by him seeing a "Black Lives Matter" flag above her garage.


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Investigators ultimately revealed that Teets appeared to be “highly intoxicated” when Schuetz and Daniels arrived on the scene, according to a memo reported by the Portland Tribune last month.

Teets allegedly “squared up” with the two officers, fists raised as if he wanted to fight them. He did not recognize his colleagues, the memo said.

The responding officers did not check Teets for weapons, according to Castaneda’s tort claim. Then, Schuetz drove Teets to his nearby home, “only blocks away from the Castaneda family,” according to the claim, and helped the intoxicated officer to his front door.

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Her lawyer, Michael Fuller, also alleged that police did not document the possible political motives at play when Teets targeted Castaneda’s home. The responding officers did not turn on body cameras during the investigation as required by department policy, nor did they note the existence of the Black Lives Matter flags prominently displayed on Castaneda’s property in their reports. (Myers said Schuetz simply forgot to turn his body camera on while determining how to handle the incident and noted that the Forest Grove Police Department had recently implemented the body-worn cameras in January 2020. He also said the victim’s Black Lives Matter flag had not been damaged.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/10/oregon-police-blm-flag-attack/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[multigraincracker]

1. Great example of police using " Professional courtesy" to break the law.

It is a violation of their Oath of Office and of the Constitution..

It always begins with a minor traffic violation or minor DUI. It then leads to corruption as well as dangers to the citizens.

In a nearby town about 10 years ago a drunk off duty cop passed out in his parked car. A fellow cop investigated and decided to drive the other cop home rather than arrest him.
The drunk cop got home and had his wife drive him back to his car so he could drive it home. On the way home he hit another car injuring the driver. When the truth came out, both cops were fired.

[RockRaven]

2. All cops...

Until they start proving otherwise, all cops...

[tonedevil]

3. The thin porcine line. /nt

[Celerity]

8. oink the blue

🐽

[uponit7771]

4. "Schuetz simply forgot to turn his body camera on" Someone should simply forgot NOT to fire his ass

[Fullduplexxx]

5. An argument for not having the ability to turn them off

[mitch96]

7. Fine their ass if they "misstep" and "forget"... hit them in the wallet.. nt

[Best_man23]

6. And if he had been a homeless person

The cops would have immediately taken him to jail, I don't buy for one second this "explanation" that this "was the best way to handle the unusual situation".

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. maybe they need more training

[StarfishSaver]

10. This is how cops often treat any white people they encounter (not just fellow cops)

Drunk and disorderly white people are driven home to sleep it off while Black people - even if sober as a priest and very compliant - are attacked, manhandled, abused and sometimes killed.

It's disgusting.

[uponit7771]

11. +1,