Driver says Sonoma deputy pulled gun on him
Source: Henry K. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle
The Sonoma County sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy after mistaking his toy AK-47 for a real rifle pulled a gun on a motorist twice during a traffic stop on Highway 101 two months earlier, the driver said Thursday.
Jeff Westbrook of Santa Rosa said he was mistreated by Deputy Erick Gelhaus after being pulled over Aug. 21 in Cotati for failing to signal a lane change in his BMW. The interaction troubled Westbrook so much that he recalled asking Gelhaus at one point, "Sir, is there something wrong with you?"
"I felt like I was watching somebody I needed to help," said Westbrook, 57, a program manager at an information technology company. "This was not right. He did not manage this correctly."
Gelhaus is on routine paid leave after the Oct. 22 shooting of eighth-grader Andy Lopez Cruz, who was walking with a replica AK-47 pellet gun near his home just outside Santa Rosa. His attorney declined Thursday to comment on Westbrook's allegations.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Driver-says-Sonoma-deputy-pulled-gun-on-him-4944495.php
This guy wasn't playing with a Full Deck was he
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Full magazine, yes.
icymist
(15,888 posts)eom
icymist
(15,888 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)"There wasn't much room on the side of the highway, Westbrook said, so he rolled down his window and offered to move the car. That's when Gelhaus pulled a gun on him and yelled at him to turn the car off, Westbrook said. He said he responded that the car was already off."
Let's see how the usual suspects spin this one.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Tumbulu
(6,292 posts)and should not have been out on duty.
The sorrows from wars (never ending sorrows from W) just go on and one and create more sadness in a terribly long trainwreck.
PTSD anyone?
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R