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Clark: Perfect Shonto Pete Head Gear

Posted by DFO

March 17, 2009 9 a.m. • 13 comments

The responses I’m receiving about last Friday’s acquittal of Jay Olsen – the boozed-up off-duty cop who shot Shonto Pete in the head after a wild chase two years ago – can be filed under two categories. 1. Purple-faced anger and … 2. What the “BLEEP!?!” disbelief. Then we have Lee, a 47-year-old North Side Spokane resident, who took a more subtle approach, thanks to a diabolically creative mind. Lee, by the way, doesn’t want his full name in the paper because of fears of reprisal. Whatever. I’m more interested in what came out of his disgust with the aforementioned verdict. And that is the Shonto Pete Bulletproof Hat/Doug Clark, SR. More here.

Related: Police launch Olsen inquiry/Karen Dorn Steele, SR

Question: Why do the cops in Spokane seem to get in a lot more trouble than their counterparts in North Idaho?

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.