BREAKING: Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer has been found NOT GUILTY in the criminal trial against him. FULL STORY:
also testified. The officers arrived to find Troyer and Altheimer sitting in their vehicles facing one another after their 2 a.m. standoff in a Tacoma neighborhood near Troyer’s house.The trial continues in the case against Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer. On Thursday, the jury got to listen to the 911 call at the center of the false reporting case.
Altheimer wasn’t arrested, but was detained by officers and frisked. Body camera footage showed Altheimer frustrated by the large law enforcement response, telling police he had made no threats. "He just talked down to me, like I was just lost. Like I didn’t know where I belonged. He accused me of being a porch pirate," said Altheimer.
"When you are sitting in a vehicle and you're Black and cops surround you, guns are drawn. They don't know what my threat level is, they don't know who I was. And they came to that scene because somebody has lied to them," said Altheimer.Trial of Sheriff Ed Troyer: Newspaper carrier testifies
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