Why did they wait a month to ask us to look out for the assailant??

Why did it take the PPB 30 days to notify the public or ask for help with identifying this suspect?

@torridjoe & Graham: Yeah, the sketch appears to be dated 11/4. They *really* wanted to find this guy, didn't they? Apparently not.

The overpass on Powell a block away has a nightly homeless encampment that's gotten pretty large over the last couple of months. There looked to be about 10 or 12 people crammed in there, last time I drove by.

No reason to think this guy was associated with them. But is that area kinda going bad?

It's worrying that they were able to build a guerrilla skatepark without authorities noticing (?) but if people actually use it maybe that's the best thing that could happen?

Also, typo in the headline - 'perceived." Frowny face.

lol @ typo.

i'm also confused as to why police withheld this information? did you ask them?

If a different type of person had been beaten that severely in a different (say, more upscale) part of town, that sketch would've been on the local news shows four weeks ago, I'd bet. But I suppose that's always the way, isn't it?

'Fuckin' Powell, awesomely white trash...

By "after midnight on November 1st," I'm reading that as basically Halloween night. Right? Not that that information could narrow anything down, but maybe someone at a Halloween party in that neighborhood that night saw two random meat heads trolling around on bikes that night?

I used to live right across the street from that overpass, and it's always been a magnet for problems. The police presence in that area has always been pretty minimal, so it's not surprising that someone was beat up, or that the kids were able to build a skate park. The interesting thing is that there are a lot of high-priced homes in the area. It's a weird mix of industrial and residential. It sucks that assholes had to take out their issues on someone who was just minding their own business. All I can recommend it be careful when you are crossing the bridge at night. There are too many trolls living under it who are looking for an excuse to cause problems.