[Vision2020] Battery Case # 10-M11747: Citation 50859 Attached: Moscow/Pullman Daily News Public Records Report Falsehoods

Wed Dec 22 15:06:34 PST 2010

Moscow/Pullman Daily News and Lewiston Tribune:

I request that the following short plea for possible witnesses of the
battery incident described in this email to come forward, be printed in the
letters to the editor section of your newspapers, in a timely fashion:

Possible Witnesses of Battery Please Respond

If anyone witnessed someone standing straddling a bicycle being aggressively
pushed
(resulting in loosing footing and falling) down horizontally to the
pavement by someone else on the crosswalk on the south side of Hwy 8
at the intersection with Mountain View Rd., that occurred about 6 PM,
Sunday Dec. 19, please contact me at starbliss at gmail.com, or call
208-882-8643, leave a message, or contact the Moscow Police Dept.
regarding Battery Case # 10-M11747 at 208-882-2677.

Ted Moffett
Moscow, Idaho

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From: Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:45 PM
Subject: Battery Case # 10-M11747: Citation 50859 Attached: Moscow/Pullman
Daily News Public Records Report Falsehoods
To: starbliss <starbliss at gmail.com>, Moscow Vision 2020 <
vision2020 at moscow.com>, Nancy Chaney <nchaney at ci.moscow.id.us>,
cgreen at ci.moscow.id.us, Dan Weaver <dweaver at ci.moscow.id.us>, pa <
pa at latah.id.us>, ATVPMoscow at turbonet.com, alford at dnews.com,
mcbride at lmtribune.com, lrozen at dnews.com, murf at dnews.com, clords at dnews.com,
wh at lmtribune.com, drokyta at dnews.com, alajr at lmtribune.com, cwells at uidaho.edu,
info at humanrightslatah.org

I was informed at the Moscow Police Dept. yesterday Tues. Dec. 21,
2010, that the police report regarding my battery complaint described
in this email was not finished, but that Moscow Police Officer Casey
Green was working on this report.

This email is being sent to Moscow Police Officer Casey Green, Moscow
Police Chief Dan Weaver, Moscow Mayor Nancy Cheney, the Latah County
Prosecutor, Alternatives to Violence of the Palouse (I have contacted
this organization regarding this case and received helpful advice),
the U of I Victims Rights Clinic, the Latah County Human Rights Task
Force and a number of Moscow/Pullman Daily News and Lewiston Tribune
representatives.

If anyone witnessed the incident described in this email, i. e.
someone standing straddling a bicycle being aggressively pushed
(resulting in loosing footing and falling) down horizontally to the
pavement by someone else on the crosswalk on the south side of Hwy 8
at the intersection with Mountain View Rd., that occurred about 6 PM,
Sunday Dec. 19, please contact me at starbliss at gmail.com, or call
208-882-8643, leave a message, or contact the Moscow Police Dept.
regarding Battery Case # 10-M11747 at 208-882-2677.

Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010 at about 6 PM I was bicycling on the Latah Trail
heading east across the crosswalk at the intersection with Mountain
View Rd. on the south side of Hwy. 8.  A vehicle was heading north on
Mountain View Rd. approaching this crosswalk facing a stop sign at
that intersection, a street light was illuminating the crosswalk that
renders occupants of the crosswalk clearly visible at night, even for
pedestrians who not required by code to carry light (unlike operators
of bicycles), and I was operating a front and back light.
Nonetheless, I was bicycling very slow, given the snow and ice, and
that it's best to assume vehicles may have trouble stopping or drivers
may be inattentive.

This vehicle entered the crosswalk in front of me, forcing me to apply
my brakes to prevent an accident.  There was no contact between my
bicycle and the vehicle, but the crosswalk was being blocked by the
vehicle.  I was then not riding my bicycle, but standing on foot
straddling my bicycle.  I merely stood in place straddling my bicycle,
waiting for the driver of the vehicle to either pull into Hwy. 8, or
what other courteous drivers have done in my experience in the past,
back-up to open the crosswalk.

Within seconds, the driver quickly exited the vehicle and approached
me closely face to face, as the vehicle he had exited remained
blocking the crosswalk.  I do not recall the entire exact verbal
exchange between us, which was very brief, and I could hardly get a
word in edgewise, as they say.  I recall stating that I was operating
a light to the front of my bicycle, or words to that effect, but I was
baffled by what motivated this individuals behavior.  I have no
recollection of knowing anything about or meeting this person, either
directly or indirectly.

I did not move from the spot where I was standing during this time,
and was holding up my bike still straddling it on foot, while also
holding a flashlight.  Again, the crosswalk remained blocked by the
vehicle this individual had been driving.

I made no motions to initiate physical contact with this individual.

After the very brief "conversation" this individual forcefully shoved
me to the pavement, which resulted in my legs becoming tangled with
the frame of my bicycle, with I and my bicycle stretched out
horizontally on the crosswalk/pavement.

Again, to be redundant for emphasis, this physical contact/attack was
entirely initiated by this individual.

I told the driver I was going to contact the police, got off the
pavement though leaving my bicycle in the crosswalk, and headed for
Hwy 8 away from the individual who had attacked me.  I was promptly
trying to avoid any further physical violence.

I was quickly able to flag down a law enforcement vehicle that I think
coincidentally was heading east on Hwy. 8, close to Mountain View Rd.
I told this first law enforcement officer that I contacted in this
case that I had been physically attacked, and I pointed to the
individual that committed this act, who was, much to my amazement,
following me at that time.  The fact this individual who had
physically attacked me was following me on foot after this attack,
leaving his vehicle blocking the crosswalk referenced, while I was
attempting to contact police, I found highly alarming.

After other law enforcement personnel arrived, I was questioned, and
what resulted can be described as "Kafkaesque" (as in Kafka's book
"The Trial").

I was cited for battery.  The citation is attached to this email.  The
individual who attacked me was also cited for battery, and the
officers involved showed me a copy of that citation he was issued.

Apparently, a passenger in the vehicle the person who physically
attacked me was driving claimed that, according to what I was told by
law enforcement officers, I had initiated physical contact with the
driver who had confronted me.  This claim can be read on the citation
for battery I was issued that is attached to this email.

This claim is false, given the physical contact in this incident
(again  excuse the redundancy) was entirely initiated by the driver of
this vehicle who exited his vehicle, approached me closely while I was
standing stationary in the crosswalk straddling my bicycle, while the
vehicle he had been driving was left blocking the crosswalk, and
forcefully shoved me and my bicycle down horizontally to the pavement.

Again, to be redundant, my bicycle did not contact the vehicle in this
case, nor did my body initiate any contact with the driver of this
vehicle, or the vehicle he was driving.
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The Moscow/Pullman Daily news on Tues. Dec. 21, 2010 on page 4A in
their Public Records section under "Moscow Police" contains what
appears to be a description of my battery complaint, that is simply
false, as it reads below:

Sunday

6:04 PM --Officers responded to a verbal altercation following a
vehicle versus bicycle collision at South Mountain View Road and Troy
Road.
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What the officers were responding to was my battery complaint (I had
no complaint regarding the very limited verbal exchange involved),
there was no vehicle versus bicycle collision, nor did I indicate to
police that a collision had occurred between my bicycle and the
vehicle in question.
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Below is the description of this incident from the Moscow Police Dept.
daily activity logs for Dec, 2010, available from the City of Moscow
website as given below:

http://www.moscow.id.us/police/activity/2010_logs.aspx

10-M11747 Simple Battery
Incident Address : South Mountain View Rd & Troy Rd
MOSCOW ID 83843
Disposition : ACT
Time Reported: 18:04
Cad Comments:
RP advising of a verbal altercation that appears to have resulted from a
vehicle
vs bike. Officers responded and citations issued. Report Taken.
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