X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Message-ID: <54283629.2070001@sbcglobal.net> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 09:24:09 -0700 From: Richard Childers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: derler@ci.fortuna.ca.us Subject: Expertise With Blindsiding Suggests Prior Experience. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Officer Erler, About two years ago, during the Fortuna Auto Show, my brother was assaulted, in the vicinity of 12th Street. At the time, I suspected someone in the Park West Apartments might have had something to do with it - but there was no way to be sure, because my brother had been struck on the head, from behind, with a rock, and didn't remember what had happened ... and when the Fortuna police responded to the incident, they decided that my brother needed a 72-hour hold in Semper Virens, instead of treatment as an assault victim. (Frankly, the only thing that saved from my brother was the fact that he was wearing a thick wool cap. I didn't appreciate my brother being kidnapped and help incommunicado for over 48 hours by the police - I didn't know that was in the job description. My brother tells me that the officers forcibly denied him access to a telephone to call his family, while he was at RMH. And when citizens are being held on a 5150, they disappear - they aren't listed as being in the custody of the police. Just sayin'.) And so, I wonder ... while striking people from behind is hardly a novel approach to strong-arm behavior ... has there been any pattern of such assaults, and, perhaps, robberies, in the vicinity? It seems to me that the process of rendering a person semi-conscious or temporarily unconscious is not something that is learned in one lesson, and the expertise, and strategy, revealed, yesterday, suggests that Richard Henson, his buddy, or both of them, have done this before. And so I wonder if a review of recent assaults in the Humboldt Bay area might reveal a pattern of either of these individuals' cell phones consistently within walking distance of any recent robberies, muggings, or assaults. Regards, ~richard