Portland Timber arrested during disturbance at apartment

 @Ms.Bennet Good report. Sounds like he should be arrested.

 

Doesn't sound like the person who called wasn't a racist but was concerned for the safety of the woman involved.

 

It took guts to even knock at the door. During domestic violence the male usually doesn't take kindly to having neighbors interfere.

     @Portlander29 You are certainly a racist. Up until this point no one even mentioned his race.

 

Maybe the person who called 911 was concerned that someone would get hurt. Did you ever think of that possibility? Domestic violence is one of the largest precipitators of violent deaths.

 @drosen There is the judicial process and there is company policy. Company policy can suspend people without pay if they want to.

 @Portlander29  @RalphCramden  @Portlander29 The cops were called because he was yelling at his wife in Spanish obscenities saying he was going to kill her, throwing things, breaking glass, and punching walls.  It was so loud I came out of my apartment to see what was going on because i thought someone was being beaten to death.  Everyone in the complex could hear all of the commotion, and were concerned for the welfare of the woman who was screaming and crying hysterically.

 

When the neighbor knocked on the door and no one answered, the police were called because of fear for the woman inside's safety.

Then he came barreling outside with blood on his had, and she had blood on her shirt two neighbors asked them if everything was alright.

The shouting continued and when he proceeded to get in his car to leave after the police arrived and was trying to get his attention is when they struggled with him to listen.

 

More officers arrived and he still was struggling with the police, and he was yelling : "pu*a policia" (Spanish obscenities) and other angry words about the police being there. He knew very well what was going on and that he needed to stop, but he didn't and kept on fighting.

You make it sound like oh, just someone arguing in their apartment, no big deal, but when the entire neighborhood can hear you destroying your apartment and a woman screaming bloody murder, yes it is a big deal.

I have to live next to someone with a hot temper and it it's unnerving.  I don't think it's right that you can get special treatment because you are a part of something as big as the Timbers.  Breaking the law is breaking the law no matter what country it's in. 

 

It's not an issue of paranoid racist. I'm Mexican, and the majority of the community is a mix of Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Asian, and Caucasian.   We are a tight-knit community who care about the welfare of the neighborhood and each other.  We have young children and really care about the well-being of one another.

Plus, this isn't the first incident where police have been called to his place before. Lots of yelling is heard from their apartment.

 

 

 @RalphCramden Except, Ralph, he was only arrested, not found guilty. Not everyone arrested is guilty. If he's guilty, that's another matter. But, to give a punishment prior to any sort of judicial process isn't the American Way, is it?

@RalphCramden @Portlander29 I said paranoid or racist. Maybe you shouldn't just choose which to go with. Someone called the police because people were having an argument at like 9 PM? Yes, i would guess they are one of those two things.

 @Ms.Bennet That is so often the case.

 

I have found that reasonable people never have an argument where police need to be called. And if that ever did happen reasonable people would listen to the cops and work to mitigate the issue.

 

Usually it is the unreasonable hotheads that just don't listen and end up going to jail.

@RalphCramden The cops came over because there was an argument. Imagine if the cops had to go over to every argument? I'm guessing a paranoid or racist neighbor called them. The guy had broken no laws and was merely trying to leave the situation. The cops had no reason to give him any orders as he had not broken any laws. I am a big fan of the police in general but they are not always in the right.

 @RalphCramden  Exactly! As a witness to the entire incident, had he stopped fighting back and calmed down, the whole thing could have seriously been resolved probably without him having to go to jail.

 @starshadow 

 

Exactly! Is there really any one college that has a NCAA football team --or any collegiate sport -- that doesn't pander to the players like as you described above? No, it isn't fair. It’s all about the money for the college, their board, and those freaking advertisers, who inundate us 24/7 with their asinine commercials and crap. And, to some extent, the rest of the study body are who pays though --blood, sweat and tears-- the high cost of tuition and books.

 @jallard A higher standard? You mean like the Quacks that get free college degrees without going to class or doing any schoolwork, drugging, fighting, partying, and playing their way thru, while some of us take ten or fifteen years to finish our damn degrees because we can only afford to take a couple classes a year???

@Portlande  No Timbers but how abot Brandon Roy...wait never mind he went to Minnesota today

@Ms.Bennet @Portlander29 @RalphCramden Except they are not public figures. I bet very few people can name more than a couple players on the Timbers, and I would bet most can name ZERO. This guy makes like 44K a year according to another poster. He would have to go on welfare if he were laid off or fired. So you would prefer supporting him with tax dollars than the organization's money. That's smart. Also, PARENTS need to teach their children that athletes and celebrities can rarely be trusted to be role models. A child's best role model is a good parent or two.