On Saturday, October 22 at 1:54 a.m. a police officer found himself in the midst of a bizarrely escalating fight—bystanders screaming, testicles being threatened, spit being spat—all after conducting a routine stop to question a woman allegedly caught throwing a trash can into the middle of a Capitol Hill Street.
According to the police report, East Precinct Officer Auderer was patrolling the intersection of Olive Way and Broadway Avenue when he saw a woman on the street corner push a city garbage can into the street, causing cars to swerve and stop. As he pulled over to question the woman, she reportedly screamed, “Cops, get out of here!” before running away. Naturally, the officer followed her in his car, leaning out the window to shout back “Seattle Police, stop running, this is getting silly.”
The woman did not stop running. So Officer Auderer had to leave his patrol car and pursue her on foot. Surprise! He caught her.
But as Officer Auderer was arresting his suspect for obstruction and pedestrian interference, the police report states that two men showed up and started yelling, “That’s my friend” and “She’s a good person! Get off her!” The officer told the men to back the fuck up (in so many words). They did not back the fuck up. Officer Auderer then shouted, “You get back from me or I’m going to kick you in the nuts!”
The threat worked—for a little while. But after a few minutes the men approached again, prompting Officer Auderer to draw his baton and yell, “You come any closer and you’re getting knocked out!”
Eventually, the woman was taken into custody. As she was read her Miranda Rights, she allegedly “spit directly into” an officer’s mouth, the report states, earning her an assault charge on top of obstruction charges. Later, while in a holding cell, the woman apologized for spitting “in that dude’s face.” The report doesn’t explain why she threw a trashcan into the street, but when asked why she ran from the officer she reportedly replied “I was afraid I was going to get arrested.”
The police report notes that the woman was arrested in August for assaulting another police officer.
Hooray for our robust mental health care system.
Oh, no, wait.
This story is so stereotypically “Seattle”.
“Here’s to alcohol. The solution to, and cause of, so many of life’s problems.”
-Homer
Go ‘Occupy Seattle!’
You guys really are a bunch of class acts!
Was her name Victoria Liss?
@4: Read it again and go fuck yourself, Seattleblues.
Metnal illness or bad bahavior? It really doesn’t matter. I suggest 10 years for officer assault and 5 probation for discorderly conduct and disrupting traffic.
@7: 10 years in prison seems a little harsh for spitting at a cop. I mean, seriously… ten… ten years? A decade?
Seattleblues are you really, really that retarded and lack reading comprehension. Please cite the word Occupy, Westlake, or City hall or whatever else led you to think this was related to OWS.
sounds like crusty street rats to me.
Probably up from portland or california. Fucking scum.