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Dorner hunt: Hour after Portland man lands in San Diego, surrounded by cops with guns drawn
Man Mistaken for Manhunt Suspect In the midst of a state-wide manhunt for the suspect in multiple shootings, a man mistaken for the suspect was surrounded by police and handcuffed briefly.
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Police located the man and told him to drop his cell phone and put his hands in the air. Police put him in handcuffs as he told them he had just landed in San Diego less than an hour ago. They later learned that the man was Portland resident Greg Pruitt, not Dorner.
In a brief press conference following the incident, an SDPD spokesperson said Pruitt was just "in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Pruitt said he was sitting in his car in the hotel parking lot when he noticed a police officer out of the corner of his eye with a gun, but didn’t think anything of it. “All of a sudden I turn around and look back and see another [officer] behind a tree with a machine gun and thought, ‘this is not good,’” he said.
When he realized the officers were aiming their weapons at him, he dropped his cell phone and held his hands above his head. Police handcuffed him and looked at the contents in his wallet before releasing him.
“I didn’t even want to breath,” he told NBC 7 after the incident. “You have guns pointed at you, you don’t move, you don’t breath you don’t blink you don’t ask why, you just do what you’re told.”
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Police located the man and told him to drop his cell phone and put his hands in the air. Police put him in handcuffs as he told them he had just landed in San Diego less than an hour ago. They later learned that the man was Portland resident Greg Pruitt, not Dorner.
In a brief press conference following the incident, an SDPD spokesperson said Pruitt was just "in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Pruitt said he was sitting in his car in the hotel parking lot when he noticed a police officer out of the corner of his eye with a gun, but didn’t think anything of it. “All of a sudden I turn around and look back and see another [officer] behind a tree with a machine gun and thought, ‘this is not good,’” he said.
When he realized the officers were aiming their weapons at him, he dropped his cell phone and held his hands above his head. Police handcuffed him and looked at the contents in his wallet before releasing him.
“I didn’t even want to breath,” he told NBC 7 after the incident. “You have guns pointed at you, you don’t move, you don’t breath you don’t blink you don’t ask why, you just do what you’re told.”
Portlandia meets Fortlandia! Very glad the police decided to make sure they had the right guy before opening fire.
PB
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They at least can play with others.
