April 26, 2004
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Even blind old ladies terrify the cops
Sunday, April 25, 2004-
She was 71 years old.
She was blind.
She needed her 94-year-old mother to come to her rescue.
And in the middle of the dogfight -- in which Eunice Crowder was pepper-sprayed, Tasered and knocked to the ground by Portland's courageous men in blue -- the poor woman's fake right eye popped out of its socket and was bouncing around in the dirt.
When Nellie Scott, Eunice's 94-year-old mother, tried to rinse out her daughter's eye with water from a two-quart Tupperware bowl, according to Ernie Warren Jr., Eunice's lawyer, the cop pushed Nellie up against a fence and accused her of planning to use the water as a weapon.
Eunice was uncooperative. Worried a city employee was hauling away a family heirloom, a 90-year-old red toy wagon, she had the nerve to feel her way toward the trailer in which her yard debris was being tossed.
Hard of hearing, she ignored the calls of Officers Robert Miller and Eric Zajac to leave the trailer.
"Looking back, and I know the officers feel this as well, they may have done something differently," Police Chief Derrick Foxworth said Friday.
Comments (2)
they might want to try looking at what's in front of them
Gee, ya think?
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