Driver says Sonoma deputy pulled gun on him

[FreakinDJ]

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

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This guy wasn't playing with a Full Deck was he

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Full deck, no.

Full magazine, yes.

[icymist]

2. There's no link to this.

eom

[FreakinDJ]

3. Fixed

[icymist]

4. Thank you nt

[Ash_F]

5. Holy cow...read this:

"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]

6. Holy Shit Batman

[Tumbulu]

7. Clearly the policeman was mentally ill

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]

8. It could have been worse. "Turn the car off! Turn the car off! Bang."

[rhett o rick]

9. He should be arrested for murder. nm

[DeSwiss]

10. K&R

- Not surprised. Between this and the lower IQ requirements for recruits, this is the kind of person the system now demands.

K&R

[gopiscrap]

11. figures that's what happens when you let cops run amok!