Pierce County sheriff confronted Black newspaper carrier

[TexasTowelie]

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The sheriff of Pierce County, Washington, sparked a large police response in late January after confronting a Black newspaper carrier driving near his home, telling a 911 dispatcher the man “threatened to kill me.”

The Seattle Times reports that Sheriff Ed Troyer retracted that allegation upon questioning by Tacoma police. Following the newspaper's report about the incident, elected officials in Pierce County and others on Friday called for an investigation.

Troyer said he would be open to an independent investigation. “In 35 years, I have never had a complaint against me for racial bias,” he told the newspaper.

The 24-year-old carrier, Sedrick Altheimer, said the early morning encounter on Jan. 27 left him afraid and angry at Troyer — who was driving an unmarked, personal SUV and didn’t identify himself as law enforcement.

Read more: https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/northwest/pierce-county-sheriff-confronted-black-newspaper-carrier/article_bc153a3f-732c-5b8f-aaac-8745d53d3d11.html

[KT2000]

1. So the sheriff says the paper delivery man

threatened him and then retracted it later. Why did he say that in the first place? He needs to answer that.

[marble falls]

2. Where the sheriff tipped his racist hand ...

"“All he had to do is calmly say, ‘Hey, I am delivering newspapers,’ ” Troyer said."

Sedrick Alteimer didn't know his 'place'. The sheriff followed him up the street while he tossed the papers out both windows, he knew Mr Alteimer was delivering papers.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Sheriff walked back his claim to police that a Black newspaper carrier was stopping at houses on his

street and threatened to kill him

Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer is facing calls for his resignation after a January 27 encounter with Sedrick Altheimer, a 24-year-old Black newspaper carrier, according to the Seattle Times.

Troyer had followed Altheimer along his delivery route. Then he called Washington police, telling them repeatedly that Altheimer had threatened to kill him.

"He's in some sort of gray car, and he was in my driveway and in my neighbor's driveway, and he knows who I am and he threatened to kill me and I've got him blocked in," Troyer said during his phone call with the police, a recording of which was obtained by the Seattle Times.

"He looks homeless in his car," Troyer added on the call. "He was in my driveway and I got in my car and he was in my neighbor's driveway and tried to get in my garage."

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