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Saturday, January 23, 2010

City / Chow / News Cops 'n' Tacos

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:03 PM

Two items that haven't made it onto Slog yet:

1. Taco Del Mar (referred to by some as "Taco Del Merde") has filed for bankruptcy.

2. Paul Schene, the former sheriff's deputy who slammed a 16-year-old in her holding cell, got a mistrial when a jury split 11-1 about whether he had committed assault.

Here's the video that got Schene fired from the Sheriff's Office for excessive force (and, later, making false statements):

Schene's counsel claims the girl kicked her shoe at him and needed to be subdued. The prosecutors (and damning testimony from Schene's partner) says he used excessive force. County prosecutors plan to appeal, and federal prosecutors might go after him with a civil-rights case.

Two items about the second item:

1. Schene's lawyer, Peter Offenbecher, is the same lawyer representing Rick Wilson in the Cafe Corsair/speakeasy/gambling/meth-coke bust case.

2. Schene's trial was postponed for two months after officials revealed that Christopher Monfort, the man accused of torching police vehicles and killing SPD officer Timothy Brenton on Halloween, may have been partly motivated by the Schene case.

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How come in Taco del Mar all the murals of the beach are of guy surfers and there are no girls in bikinis?

Posted by Why? on January 23, 2010 at 5:14 PM

Are these the things that keep you up at night, Why?, mad with lust and unexplained desires?

Posted by normal people don't fixate as such on January 23, 2010 at 5:49 PM

geeze what it's the water there police beat up girls, startbucks sanctions abuse of a 16 year girl then sicks their lawyers on her when she complains.

Posted by Thelip on January 23, 2010 at 5:50 PM

re: TdM:

Why, why, why? Does this mean they're going out of business? No!

I thought tdm was one of the top gross(-ing) revenue fast-fresh chains in the country! How are they bankrupt?

I'll tell you what, tdm may not be a local chain anymore, but I'll try never to eat Chipotle. 'Cause I mean, ugh, it's run by freakin' McDonald's.

Re: peace officers

It really disappoints me that one person caused a mistrial to be declared.

As for Monfort, sometimes as much as I want to stick it to the man, that was not the way to do that.

Back to Schene: He still gets his retirement? Even though he assaulted a minor? Please. That makes me want to vote *against* tax increases. I'll be damned if my taxes go towards paying for the retirements of miscreants like him. Paying for retirements for those like him do not help peace officers' overall image at all.

[Remind me again, why are cops and tacos in the same post?]

Posted by cops & tacos aren't equal on January 23, 2010 at 6:49 PM

Schene deserves a nice jail sentence. The girl doesn't deserve squat though. Two stupid ignorant people.

Posted by SchmuckyTheCat on January 23, 2010 at 8:20 PM

That video seems to me to be sped up, maybe by 10 or 20%.

I find that weird, because what he's doing is violent enough without the exaggeration.

Posted by Orsh on January 23, 2010 at 11:46 PM

Vaya con vacas, Taco del Guano. Your overexpansion, and sneaky overpriced upsells will not be missed.

Posted by Karlheinz Arschbomber

on January 24, 2010 at 12:06 AM

This is a logical consequence of The Stranger's resistance to hiring any Hispanic-Americans as editors. The word is MIERDA, no "merde."

Espero que los editores de este periódico realizan que la comunidad latina igualmente es una parte integral de Seattle.

Posted by Harry Lime on January 24, 2010 at 3:45 AM

"Merde" est français.

They probably used that over "mierda" or even "caca", because of the way its syllabics and metering flowed with the actual brand name. "Mar" and "merde" sound far more similar to one another than "mar" and "mierda". It's incorrect, but admit it: it flows like the bowels.

I'm sure the editors know that la communidad latina in Seattle is equally integral to the Seattle area. As to their hiring practices, talk to Dan of the we-don't-hire-certain-kinds-of-queer-people-as-writers-editors-or-production-support set. They seem to only have one token on staff at a time.

So, uhm, you're on your own there, Sñr. Harry Lima.

Posted by Telsa Grills on January 24, 2010 at 5:21 AM

Now that is one cop I wouldn't mind seeing take a 5.56 round to the head. Monfort could have been a hero then.

Posted by Anc on January 24, 2010 at 2:13 PM

Though I'd never eat at Taco Del Mar when there are proper burrito options available I most certainly do when I am left stranded in Nowhere-ville.

Chipotle is not an option as it is not only owned by McDonald's but is disgusting.

Posted by funkathrusta on January 24, 2010 at 7:18 PM

I'm so glad the cop was fired and put on trial. I'd like to know what the fuck that one juror was thinking.

Posted by dwight moody on January 25, 2010 at 10:22 AM

Forget the merde/mierda debate. The correct way to refer to them is "Taco Sub Par."

Posted by locoyloco on January 25, 2010 at 12:24 PM