The commentary on the video is asinine. "Thanks for doing it in the supermarket". The fuck? Were they supposed to wait until the knife wielding man went to his next errand at the Gap? What an asshole.

Goddamn the guy narrating this video is such a dipshit.

If you have to watch this video, mute it.

I love that this guy taking the video is so anti government but is on disability and lives off the government. Must be nice to retire in your fifties and have time to eat oatmeal weekday mornings at a Whole foods while taking asinine videos and spouting radical rhetoric while I slave away paying for his stupid ass.

I thought this might have been about the tazing that happened last night on 26th and Clinton. In that case, the person in question was (you guessed it) a young skinny white kid at a SE bar. At least 3 patrol cars were called to take down, taze and arrest some stumbly belligerent drunk who either needed a cab home or a night in the drunk tank. I'm not sure of the details or the altercation that took place (I was there, I just choose not to watch these things) but I'm pretty sure there were no knives or weapons of any kind in the altercation.

God, the narrator on the video is such an enormous asshole. Must be nice to antagonize the cops from the second floor. "You ruined my breakfast, by the way... They could have taken him outside... This is a supermarket!" OH, sure, just as long as you don't have to see it. Invoke James Chasse in one breath, insist on keeping your hot breakfast bar clean in the next. Got it.

I totally understand where the angry guy is coming from. Every time I look at the prices in a Whole Foods deli I have to immediately stifle the urge to grab sharpened metal objects and menace people.

"$8.00 for a fucking sandwich and you're not even going to put it on a plate with a pickle spear? Fffffffffuuuuuuuu"

The fact that this guy recorded the cops the whole time and at no point ever swung his camera over towards the guy with the knife was really annoying. Seriously, this video was crap.

I thought PPB and the city didn't comment when there is pending litigation?

The video taker is a jerk. The police spoke in more measured tones than I have ever seen Portland police employ. Still, the police seemed to tire of the event and tased him just to be doing something. Repeated tasing? There were a lot of police in evidence. Perhaps learning a hold, other than the now banned LLoyd B Stevenson sleeper hold, is in order. Or just, each grab a limb and get the cuffs on him.

The reality is that the vocal minority anti-cop-at-all-costs people in this city who, like the narrator in this video, feel police are just itching to kill anyone who gets in their way clearly don't actually believe that. This group feels very safe openly and rudely criticizing police even to the point of antagonizing them. They fear no repercussions. Actually oppressed people have no voice. People actually living in a police state don't openly criticize police.