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Okanagan
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posted August 02, 2011 06:33 PM
Looking out from a second floor across a four lane busy street today, I watched a complex arrest.
My first alert was when an unmarked but obvious police car slewed sideways across two lanes and stopped. The uniformed driver hopped out with his hand on his holstered sidearm and walked toward the corner of a restaruant across the street from me. I leaned over in time to see the second of two more police cars pull in the restaurant parking lot. Its driver hopped out, drew his handgun and approached a man on the sidewalk as two other officers approached, hemming the man in, pointing and obviously telling him to raise his hands and get down. A fourth police car arrived as they had the man kneel and handcuffed him.
After about five minutes the last officer to arrive left, his body language showing annoyance or disgust. I think he shook his head side to side as he walked to his car.
Another two or three minutes and they had the man stand up, and now I saw his homeless buggy cart full of stuff. The police removed his cuffs and the three remaining officers stood with him, all hands laughing and shooting the breeze like friends.
As they stood there, a white van pulled through from the back of the restaurant to the exit which was partly blocked by one of the police cars. The man in the van apparently called to the officers 40-50 feet away. After a brief exchange and the van driver pointing southwest a couple of times, all three officers walked quickly together to the van.
They talked to the driver for two minutes, then had him park in the restaurant lot. He got out of the van and spread on the side of it. The officers searched him and walked with him to one of the police cars. The homeless man called after them as if to regain the center of attention, then he pushed his cart up the sidewalk and left.
After considerably more talk and pointing southwest, the young man walked back to his van with two officers, who leaned with chests touching his back, peering over him as he looked for something in the van. When he turned around again, they spread and searched him again, seemingly quite cordially as he would point or gesture once in awhile.
Then they cuffed him and after more talk, loaded him in the back of a police car and took him away, leaving his van in the resuaturant parking lot.
Your surmises are as good as mine!
It appeared that the young man would never have come to police attention in this situation had he not stopped and initiated contact.
[ August 02, 2011, 06:41 PM: Message edited by: Okanagan ]
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Leonard
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posted August 02, 2011 06:49 PM
There is a lesson there, somewhere.
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Okanagan
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posted August 03, 2011 12:06 PM
It gets curiouser and curiouser.
The building I called a restaurant in the post above burned last night after midnight.
It is actually a work-out gymn, not a restaurant. Yellow tape around, more police than firemen, still invesitgating now at noon. One story brick building, gutted.
The young man arrested in my earlier post kept pointing toward the building yesterday, when I said he was pointing southwest.
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Okanagan
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posted August 14, 2011 10:36 PM
Been on the road and too busy to post but here is one more bit on the story above: the news said the fire was suspicious and being investigated as arson. The police spokeperson also said in regard to a report that a man had been arrested in the parking lot earlier in the day, that the police knew nothing about that and had no record of an arrest!
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