Another blow to the Corvallis Police Dept. is about to fall, fresh on the heels of a controversial killing and the revelation of Corvallis police officers posing with scantily clad coeds at a party where minors were drinking, and of a subsequent resignation following on- the- job- trysts, apparently with one of the same coeds, by one of "the panty raid officers" who has been reported repeatedly as "married with children" - although the latter is really an issue only between the officer and his family.

DISTRAUGHT LOCAL MOM TALKS OF 'NIGHT OF TERROR' AT THE HANDS OF CORVALLIS POLICE

A Corvallis mom, Caterina Rosenfeld, has been contacted by a television news show about last night's , 'Night of Terror'. As she describes it, she received a phone call sometime after 10 o'clock. Police officers had come upon her 16 year old daughter, a 'brilliant student' at Corvallis High, seated in a car at the riverfront next to Michael's Landing with her escort, a local boy. The 2 had been at a rock concert (a "rave") at Oddfellows' on 2nd St. and had then gone to the park with some wine coolers furnished them by other kids after the concert. Ms Rosenfeld's daughter told her she had sipped from one, a story apparently borne out, she says, by the low alcohol content in a subsequent breathalyzer test. The officers, she says, had spied the empty bottles in the car and the daughter confessed to drinking from one. When Ms. Rosenfeld arrived a police officer informed her of the situation and told her that he was going to give her daughter an MIP citation. He then, she says, advised her to retrieve her daughter from the car and accompanied her as she approached the car. Ms. Rosenfeld walked to the car expecting to drive off with her daughter and the MIP citation. As she neared the car, says Ms. Rosenfeld, the accompanying officer unsaddled his taser and pointed it, aiming through the car window at her daughter's head. From the other side of the car says Ms. Rosendfeld, a police officer pulled his gun and pointed it, also at her daughter's head, while a third officer then began smashing the car window with a baton. Ms. Rosendfeld says "I thought they were going to kill my daughter", and she says her daughter was equally petrified with fear. Ms. Rosenfeld says she began screaming at the officers to let her approach the car, so she could get her daughter, and pleading with them to call (Police Chief) Gary Boldizar, who is an acquaintance of hers. The police pulled her away from the car, she says, her daughter's face streaming blood, glass from the shattered car window in her eyes. By this time, other police officers arrived and Ms. Rosenfeld says she heard one officer say "I can't believe this is happening." As the police tried to wash the blood off, and then carted her yet-bleeding daughter to the hospital, she says, they in turn sent Ms Rosenfeld to jail, where they later held her for an hour and a half, citing her for "interference". She then went to the hospital, where an emergency room doctor was trying to perform his duties on her daughter, who was subsequently released. The local TV news are featuring the story, complete with photos of the smashed car window, bloodied seat and clothes, to the further embarrassment of the citizenry of Corvallis. It seems as though this city and its officials, whether police or legislators, simply can't stay out of the lurid spotlight of of the TV cameras.