A Portland State University student who’s been a persistent headache for local cops is back in action.
Richard Prentice, 34, gave notice to the city last Friday that he intends to sue for $10,000 after police allegedly broke down his door without a warrant.
“The whole apartment was shaking,” Prentice tells WWire. “They said, ‘we’re coming in no matter what.’ ”
Prentice says the incident happened in part as retaliation by police for his role in a well-publicized incident June 14, 2007. Prentice was arrested that evening while taping posters to the wall of the federal courthouse downtown that accused officers of murdering James Chasse Jr., a schizophrenic who died in police custody in 2006.
Prentice told reporters he was intimidated by officers in his cell after he was arrested that evening. He notified the city of his intent to sue over that incident, but a lawsuit has not yet been launched.
In his latest court filing, Prentice says he also plans to sue after police responded Feb. 12 to a neighbor’s noise complaint at his apartment at 3110 SW 13th Ave. He says police broke down his door and arrested him. His trial for disorderly conduct is scheduled for June 2 in Multnomah County Circuit Court.
Prentice says he has no doubt his latest arrest was connected with his poster incident last year. “They know who I am. They don’t like me,” he says.
The police and the city attorney’s office do not comment on pending lawsuits. 
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I smell bs in this douchebags story. I doubt the district attorney would have even filed a criminal charge if it truely was an illegal entry. F this jackass and his gold digging.
34 year old PSU student? College was the best 15 years of his life.
Maybe if he studied on the weekends (instead of baiting cops or playing house D.J.) he could graduate from PSU and start studying how to be an adult.
The PPB Goosestepping is alive and well….good luck Prentice….:)))
34 year-old student of what? What a clown, there are several ways to protest and actually get things accomplished. This is a loser who hasn’t graduated into adulthood, I bet his parents are real proud of him.