I’m just going to link you to this great story by Oregonlive reporter Steven Mayes. Steve: When they eventually lay you off over there, you’re more than welcome to freelance for peanuts at the Mercury news section. This is the kind of story we love:
When Robert J. Ekas decided to exercise his right to free speech, he didn’t open his mouth.
He hoisted his middle finger.
His single-digit protests, aimed at Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies last year, resulted in a verbal showdowns, traffic tickets and, ultimately, a federal lawsuit.
It’s such a beautiful story. Let us know, Blogtown readers, how your own first amendment protests are received here in Portland. Speaking of protests, there’s another one on Friday:
Rally for Justice: Stop Police Violence! Join the Struggle for Justice for Aaron Campbell—Where do we go from here?
Friday, March 5, 2010, 6:30 PM, Emmanuel Temple, 1033 N Sumner *Hear the voices of our youth*
I think the end of the story is poorly written and confusing. A casual reader might mistake teh unnamed West Linn man with Ekas. I suspect the editor made the writer go out and get “an opposing or contradictory angle.”
Yeah we never bother with that 🙂
@Matt – We provide them in the comments!
That guy deserves an award! Mr. Ekas, you are my hero.
I love when the trolls decide to troll real life.
while the ClackaDup’s will get thrown a better gig by the Federal Court than they threw this Citizen’s Hero, the best ‘n’ biggest gig is coming when Gerry Spence turns his case over to the Jury and the Clackamus County and City of Sandy’s Treasurer’s are told to bend over as result of the ClackaDep’s & SandyPo’s killing of an unarmed Faaod Kady as this will the Mother of all Gig’s, leaving a lot of sore-asses in Clackamas County when it’s withdrawn!
No doubt Bad Robot…
There’s no amount of money Clackamas County and the City of Sandy that will be enough to compensate the family of Fouad Kaady for the 2007 execution of Kaady.
For those who don’t know, Kaady lit up a cigarette in his mom’s car while taking a can of gas to refill his own car. Big mistake.
It caught fire and burned him alive. Well, almost.
When he ran away, after ripping off most of his clothes and collapsing , two knuckleheads posing as police officers apparently decided he needed to be electrically-shocked for not laying on the hot pavement, as they commanded – while paramedics stood bye (Does this sound familiar? Another brown skinned citizen denied timely medical assistance; see a pattern Justice Department?). When Kaady tried to run from is tormenters again, two cops murdered him in cold blood and got off, thanks to another dirty DA, John Foote.
Kind of like how your disabled son was treated Bad Robot, with a slightly better ending, although I was also sickened by the story you told. Nothing wrong with being litigious [Mercury] when the rights of your family or yourself have been violated.