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Woman Escapes Alleged Knife-Wielding Suspect with Help from Off-Duty Cop

JOCELYN MACDONALD
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Am I the only one that kept reading that as "Cienna"?
stinkbug on April 16, 2013 at 1:40 PM Report this
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nope!
in-frequent on April 16, 2013 at 1:46 PM Report this
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Breaking news: Gun saves a life.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on April 16, 2013 at 1:51 PM Report this
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guns don't save lives, people save lives.
in-frequent on April 16, 2013 at 1:58 PM Report this
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@3 Only as much as much as cars and shoes and radios and pants. It was the actions of the officer that saved a life this time.
Dougsf on April 16, 2013 at 2:05 PM Report this
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If this were a movie, "We're good people! Get in!" would be the last thing you'd want to hear from the driver of a car when you're being chased by a knife-wielding maniac.
Prettybetsy on April 16, 2013 at 2:05 PM Report this
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I expect that Sgt. Clenna probably was armed, and yet took calm action to remove the woman from danger rather than pulling any kind of cowboy move with the knife-wielder.
Proteus on April 16, 2013 at 2:10 PM Report this
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@6 That's what I thought, too! So glad it didn't go that way.
Guest Author on April 16, 2013 at 2:16 PM Stranger Staff
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Mental health budget cuts in action.
SPG on April 16, 2013 at 2:21 PM Report this
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"Patterson confronted the suspect at gunpoint"

Doesn't sound like it was shoes, cars, radios or pants that caused the suspect to stop.

Real world situations do not conform neatly to ideological narratives. Only fools or liars think like that.
Westside forever on April 16, 2013 at 2:41 PM Report this
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"Come with me if you want to live."
SchmuckyTheCat on April 16, 2013 at 2:46 PM Report this
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@10, Patterson was the uniformed cop who responded to the 911 call, not some random citizen with a gun.
SPG on April 16, 2013 at 2:47 PM Report this
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Dammit, it wasn't Hitchcockian! To be that, there would need to be suspense. And if you don't understand why a Hitchcockian film is different from a slasher film, then I pity you.
delirian on April 16, 2013 at 2:58 PM Report this
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@10 - What ideological narrative? I'm not against guns, but a gun was only a small part of this story, and a gun in less capable hands would've steered this situation into one of dozens of tragic endings. The gun was not the hero here. Coolheadedness, to a degree most of us do not posses, was.
Dougsf on April 16, 2013 at 2:58 PM Report this
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@3: What are you arguing? A gun controlled by the state was able to be used to calm down a situation while if any random passerby had an unregulated gun, there would probably be a dead body.
delirian on April 16, 2013 at 3:05 PM Report this
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Breaking News: Car and Human Kindness Save Life.
McGee on April 16, 2013 at 3:35 PM Report this
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i just saw Marnie, and it was Hitchockian, or Marniesian, only in that there was mental illness.

also, Marnie is the worst Hitchcock i've ever seen.

Max Solomon on April 16, 2013 at 4:08 PM Report this
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I liked the deadpan line "He submitted to a search, which yielded a knife."
Fistique on April 16, 2013 at 6:18 PM Report this
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If only the suspect had exercised his 2nd Amendment rights this whole situation would have ended just south of the light rail station at about 8:42. Traffic wouldn't have been interrupted no business would have had a commotion and no patrons disturbed.
Machiavelli was framed on April 16, 2013 at 6:31 PM Report this
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Sgt. Clenna and the victim both identified the suspect as the alleged knife-wielder. The suspect was coherent, but apparently ranting religious invective while being put under arrest.

And he'll probably eventually go on to murder someone.

Roma on April 16, 2013 at 6:41 PM Report this
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@9 yep. Being locked up with these dudes is fun, too. Especially when the aides at WSH don't think much of handing out nice sharp full sized pencils to the "recently rehabilitated."
stilettov on April 16, 2013 at 7:18 PM Report this
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@9: keep in mind that many severely mentally ill people refuse to get treatment, so it has nothing to do with budget cuts.
scary tyler moore on April 16, 2013 at 7:32 PM Report this
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I live two blocks away from where this happened and watch/read/listen to the news every day. Why have no other news outlets reported on this? It would be kinda nice to know about the homicidal crazy person roaming the neighborhood...Thanks The Stranger!
on April 16, 2013 at 9:53 PM Report this
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@13 - I was actually about to come in here and say it was more Cravenish than Hitchcockian. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks so.
MacCrocodile on April 17, 2013 at 10:22 AM Report this

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