A Black Oregon food truck owner reportedly was beaten, stomped out and called the N-word by a random white person during a brutal altercation in front of his business, and his attorney claims police did not properly tend to him after the ordeal.
Darell Preston’s attorney said he was viciously assaulted in an unprovoked attack and officers failed to transport him to a hospital to check his injuries on June 15. She also questions the “timeliness and sufficiency of the government’s response.”
“We are deeply disturbed by this assault, which has left the community shaken and outraged,” attorney Alicia LeDuc Montgomery said in a statement Monday. “We call upon law enforcement to thoroughly investigate this despicable act of violence.”
However, representatives for the Portland Police Bureau said the victim was not cooperative, and the officers did the best they could under the circumstances.
Part of the attack was reportedly captured on surveillance video footage.
According to reports, Preston was on the phone with his wife in front of his LoRell’s Chicken Shack food truck when a man in a black jacket ambushed him on the sidewalk on Southeast Foster Road and 52nd Avenue. The lawyer reports that witnesses rode by in cars, but no one stopped to help.
Video of the attack shows cars honking at the assailant and someone shouting for him to stop. He calmly walks away after beating Preston down to the ground.
The video reportedly shows a bald white man assaulting a person crumpled on the sidewalk, which LeDuc Montgomery identifies as Preston. The white man punches and kicks him, and as he struggles to sit up, Preston is repeatedly beaten down to the ground.
“Mr. Preston suffered severe facial injuries,” the attorney said to the Daily Beast. “Portland police arrived on scene, but to the family’s knowledge, did not call an ambulance or provide medical care to Mr. Preston.”
“Mr. Preston was driven to the…
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