[Vision2020] Did Anyone See this in the Local Newspapers?

[Wayne Price]

by KREM.com
krem.com
Posted on May 7, 2010 at 4:10 PM
Updated today at 4:10 PM
PULLMAN, Wash. -- A federal trial date has been set in the excessive  
force case against a City of Pullman officer.  The civil rights  
complaint accuses Pullman Police Officer Rueben Harris of tasering Ed  
Kavanaugh "without any appropriate justification whatsoever."  The  
case will go to trial on October 18, 2010.
On a snowy night in Pullman in January of 2009, Kavanaugh was stopped  
by Officer Harris because an acquaintance he was walking with was  
reported to have kicked a car mirror.
Video taken from Harris' taser gun shows Kavanaugh standing with his  
palms up facing Harris asking him to "wait a hot second" as Harris  
maniacally yells at him to get down on the ground.  Apparently  
Kavanaugh's non-threatening request to wait a second did not sit well  
with Harris.  Harris tasered Kavanaugh as he stood with his palms up,  
sending him to the ground writhing in agony caused by thousands of  
volts of electricity.
Even the car owner, who witnessed the incident, was outraged by  
Harris's conduct.  A "victim impact statement" submitted to the court  
by the owner of the vehicle, characterized the tasering of Kavanaugh  
as "disturbing" and "premediated."
Kavanaugh was visiting Pullman from his home in Wenatchee when the  
incident occurred.  All charges against him were promptly dismissed.
Kavanaugh's Pullman attorney, Steve Martonick, says he got involved in  
the lawsuit because he thinks Harris possess a danger to the  
community.   Kavanaugh is also represented by well-known civil rights  
attorneys Ed Budge and Erik Heipt in Seattle.

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