Last month a man was shot by police during President Biden’s visit and has been identified as Jeremy J. Rieck. He was shot in the arm around 6 p.m. on Oct. 14 by a Portland police officer who has yet to be identified. President Joe Biden flew into Portland the same day. Rieck was ultimately sentenced to three years of probation after agreeing to plead guilty to two counts of unlawful use of a weapon in a previous case.
A report said the man shot by police attacked a driver with a ‘sharpened’ tent stake. Police flooded the scene after receiving reports of the knife-wielding man who was said to be chasing people near Southwest 13th Avenue and Jefferson Street. This took place about a dozen blocks from the downtown hotel where the president was expected to stay.
In the court documents, it stated that Rieck ordered the driver out of the car, then tried to stab him as the driver began frantically kicking back from inside the car. The driver was unharmed. The victim was not identified in records.
It is also alleged that Rieck told officers he mistook the motorist’s parked car for his brother’s car, despite having lost all contact with the sibling since moving from Minnesota to Portland in 2018, court records say.
Rieck seems to have mental issues. He was unaware why he was shot by Cops given what he was doing to the driver. Rieck has been living on the streets of Portland. Police said he told them that he was high on methamphetamine at the time of the altercation, according to an affidavit.
There is a history with the cops. Police reportedly used a Taser last January on Rieck after police said he began beating a transgender woman with a sheathed machete, leaving her visibly bruised, according to court records. The report stated that Rieck had been using racial slurs and harassing her because of her race and gender.
