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   On 29 Oct 2023, "ELON X."  posted some   
   news:uhmi2h$2jnm$7@dont-email.me:   
      
   > He'll be much more at home in prison with all the other Portlandian   
   > pole smokers.   
      
   Newly released dashcam footage shows a seething Portland man driving his   
   Chevy through a crowded parade, sending revelers at the city's annual   
   Rose Festival running for cover before evading police.   
      
   Due to a shortage of public defenders in Oregon, his former defense   
   attorney, Chris Howard, told Fox News Digital 42-year-old Sidney Mecham   
   has been waiting for new counsel since August.   
      
   The video was released into court records during an August hearing to   
   extend Mecham's preventative detention granted by Multnomah County   
   Circuit Judge Judith Matarazzo.   
      
   Mecham has remained in Inverness Jail in Northeast Portland since the   
   June 10 incident on 38 charges, including felonies for attempted   
   assault, multiple counts of unlawful use of a weapon, attempted assault   
   on a police officer and attempting to elude law enforcement by vehicle,   
   according to charges obtained by Fox News Digital from the Multnomah   
   County District Attorney's Office.   
      
   Each of 17 unlawful use of a weapon counts corresponds with one person   
   nearly hit by the man's Chevy Avalanche, according to the charges.   
      
   The video shows Mecham "nearly collid[ing] with dozens of pedestrians,   
   including small children, along the parade route," prosecutors wrote in   
   a probable cause affidavit. "Panic is visible in the pedestrians who   
   scream and scatter as Mecham's vehicle continues onward toward them."   
      
   Mecham has pleaded not guilty to all of these charges, according to the   
   Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. KGW8 reported that his previous   
   attorney argued at his first court appearance that Mecham was   
   "disoriented and trying to get through a difficult situation" while he   
   drove recklessly through the parade.   
      
   According to the outlet, he was also driving without insurance and with   
   a suspended license.   
      
   He also faces a series of traffic violations for other infractions   
   caught on his own forward, rearview and internal dash cameras, like   
   rolling through stop signs and red lights, careening through   
   construction sites and speeding.   
      
   Mecham's lengthy prior criminal history includes traffic violations and   
   sex crimes, per the Oregon State Police Sex Offender Registry. His first   
   sex-related charges date back to 1996. In 1999, he was convicted of   
   attempted first-degree rape and attempted first-degree sodomy, per the   
   registry. In 2016, he was convicted of third-degree sodomy and   
   third-degree sexual abuse.   
      
   danieltall   
   8 hours ago   
      
   They shouldn't have arrested him, he is a terrorist and we should have   
   gone Israeli on him and bombed Portland until we figured we probably got   
   him.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/raging-portland-driver-rips-through-rose-parad   
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