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Spoiling for a fight.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)

The New American

| July 21, 2008 | Williamsen, Kurt | COPYRIGHT 2008 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Police officers in Brookings, Oregon, were answering a call about a fight in progress at a McDonald's parking lot when they received a second call saying that one of the fight's participants had drawn a gun. When police arrived on the scene, they found one man pointing a gun at two younger men. The police drew their guns on the gun-wielding man and ordered him to set down his weapon. When the man, 59-year-old Kerry Von Pohle, did lower his weapon, only a few minutes passed before the police got a reality check and learned not to judge a situation by first appearances.

As it turned out, Von Pohle drew his legally registered pistol on the two unarmed men, 18-year-old Kevin Eber and 19-year-old Jacob Shelton, because he was being attacked by them. Inexplicably, "Kevin Eber had thrown a partially full ...

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