A real-estate loan originator says she suffered a beat-down by Portland cops three days before Christmas 2006, in a federal lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court.
Margarita Beutel of Northwest Portland claims in the lawsuit that officers Darrell Shaw and Matt Delenikos of the Portland Police Bureau’s Central Precinct tried to serve an arrest warrant on her employee, Thomas Johnson, on Dec. 22, 2006.
According to the lawsuit, the police had the wrong Thomas Johnson. The suit says Beutel “attempted to inform officers that they have the wrong person.”
“Officers Shaw and Delenikos grabbed Ms. Beutel, shoved her face and head into a concrete wall, hit and kicked her and threw her head-first to the ground and handcuffed and imprisoned her,” the lawsuit says.
According to the lawsuit, Beutel was treated for “a broken nose, head trauma, a concussion, multiple contusions, bruises and abrasions,” and she “suffers permanent scarring, physical injury and emotional trauma.”
Beutel currently is a licensed loan originator with Morgan Financial Inc. in Portland, according to the state Department of Consumer and Business Services. But the lawsuit does not make clear where the alleged incident took place, and Beutel could not be reached for comment.
After radio host Amy Goodman was arrested at the Republican National Convention in September, Beutel wrote a comment in an online report about Goodman’s arrest saying Beutel had “been brutally assaulted, kidnapped and charged with misdemeanor crimes fraudulently” by Portland police. But a WW search of state court records turned up no such charges.
Readers may remember Officer Shaw from a 2003 story by The Oregonian’s Maxine Bernstein. Shaw had to apologize to then-Chief Derrick Foxworth after Shaw drove up to Ringlers Pub on hip-hop night with a stuffed gorilla on the front grille of his police cruiser. Shaw denied it was meant as a racist gesture.
The lawsuit, filed by Portland lawyer M. Christian Bottoms, seeks unspecified damages from the city, Shaw and Delenikos. The city has a policy against commenting on pending litigation.
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