Friday at about 3:03 p.m., Brainerd Police Officers attempted to stop a vehicle at SE 13th and Oak Streets in connection with an order for protection violation. The order for protection violation had occurred in the 1300 block of Portland Avenue. Officers believed the driver of the van was the suspect in that incident. Officers also had knowledge that the suspect had an active arrest warrant.
As officers activated emergency lights, the vehicle sped up and began to flee. Officer’s pursued the vehicle south on 13th Street, continuing south onto County Road 45. The fleeing vehicle reached speeds well in excess of 80 mph. The fleeing vehicle continued south at this high rate of speed, turning west on County Road 2. As the suspect vehicle again reached high speeds, the pursuit was terminated by police.
The vehicle involved in this incident is described as a 1997 GMC Safari van, white with a blue stripe, displaying Minnesota License 909 GZG. The suspect involved is a 49-year-old man from Garrison. He is described as a white male, 5 feet 10 inches, with black hair and hazel eyes. He has an extensive history of contacts with law enforcement.
Assisting in this incident were the Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Department and Minnesota State Patrol. Anyone with additional information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Brainerd Police Department at 218-829-2805.
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chase
I bet the normal traffic on Co. Rd. 45 and the Dewing was honking at the cars involved in this chase to pull over so they could get around.
Why can they describe his race
when they can't if the bad guys aren't white?
heh heh
"running for the bunker now!!!!!!!!!!!
Police chases
Way too many people are hurt during police chases. When police KNOW who the person is and most likely WHERE they are heading, they should immediately abort apprehension when it turns dangerous. This has never made sense and Crow Wing County is famous for this cr*p. I have a scanner and more often than not, officers report who the person is and where he/she is heading, yet usually continue the chase and endanger everyone along the way. Jeez, just go to their home the next day and arrest them.
Fair and Balanced: they describe everybody's race because it's descriptive, just like brown hair or a dragon tattoo. Has nothing to do with racism.
Sorry gramps, you're wrong.
This paper and a lot of others refuse to put race in descriptions for criminals a lot when they aren't white. If you need some examples look back in the archives.
If they are white, they are
If they are white, they are described as " White males" if they are any other race they are called "Youths" or a "Group of" males committed the crime. This is done on purpose nationwide and it's not secluded to the Dispatch. The reason for it is to make the "White male" appear more dangerous. It's newspeak.
This is pretty simple to figure out just by looking at nation wide coverage of the Trayvon Martin case.
Trayvons 14 year old innocent looking pic was floated around the nation to pull at the heart strings of the population. In fact he was 17 with gold teeth, tattooed all over and living the thug life.
George Zimmerman was toted as a "White" male who committed the horrendous crime in EVERY newspaper for months. Yet, even a child can look at George Zimmermans picture and see that he was Hispanic. The papers must have received some grief about that so they changed their Modus operandi and started referring to Zimmerman as a "White/Hispanic" male. Making sure to still put the "white" in the beginning.
With this type of newspeak thinking. We can now refer to Obama as a "White/African"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AzmHiuale0
Double thumbs up
there mav and today's Gold Star!