The elevator went bad from the start after Portland City Commissioner Joe Ann Hardeste ordered a shop at Ilani Casino Resort in Washington last week.
Hardsty was upset over a mixup about what she was waiting for in the car, then she didn’t want to open the windows for ventilation because it was cold, then she didn’t get out when the driver tried to cut the ride short and put it down. Miles off at the gas station from home.
Nov. 1’s trip ended with dueling calls on 911 and a dispatch with a request from Hardstee to respond to police said no crime had taken place..
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This encounter draws an important attention to the hardness at a time when the PV politician has worked to remove money from the Portland Police budget and try to find alternatives to control the flood of 911 reports on circumstances that do not involve the police in crime. Strictly oversees Portland’s emergency dispatch system.
The commissioner did not respond to requests for comment, but his office released a copy of the complaint, which was sent to Hardst Lift.
She said the driver was angry and blamed her for the misunderstanding at the pickup location. “It was completely inappropriate to expect a woman to get out of a vehicle at night,” he wrote.
The two emergency calls are documented in Clark County Dispatch Records and the Audio Dio received by The Reagan / OregonLive Public Records request.
Richmond Frost of Beaverton, a lift driver for four years who has handled more than 18,000 rides, said he had no idea the fare was hardsty, until it was all over. He said he is now concerned about the publicity and how it could affect his lift license.
“She was not a pleasant person.” Frost said: “This has nothing to do with his political position as a Portland Council person. I am doing my job here. She was very disrespectful to me, upset me. I don’t feel like I should do anything in my own vehicle. I have to get in the car if anyone wants to argue rudely and be rude and insulting. “
Frost’s account begins when he says he’s clearing rent in Vancouver and “if n.” Accept the customer’s request to the named store.
He drove about 25 minutes north to Ridgefield’s casino and pulled towards the front entrance. He said he waited five minutes without a sign of fare. So he called her.
“He kind of went south from there,” Frost said. “She was not happy. She could not understand where I was. “
He immediately discovered that Hardy was waiting at the side entrance and took her there to meet him.
Once in her car, Sakhtai was so distraught that she had trouble finding her, he said. He grabbed her phone from the bindle on her dashboard and showed her where the pin drop indicated her location, but she didn’t seem to mind him, he said.
“I just want to calm him down, to convince him I’m not cheating. I know what I’m doing, “said Frost. “She did not want to hear anything. She just wasn’t happy with it. “
As she began to exit the casino space, Strictly told her that she needed to roll up the window, that she would not be able to ride with them.
The car window on the front driver’s side and the front passenger’s side cracked open to allow air circulation as a safe departure due to the coronavirus epidemic, he said. According to Lift’s website, the road company’s new rules recommend keeping car windows open during epidemics.
He turned the windows up slightly but kept them open with a sleeve, sternly saying that the windows were open for safety purposes as he could not be within six feet of his car’s limited space.
“I said, ‘It’s for my safety and your safety.’ But it was like pouring gas on his fire, ”Frost said. “She demanded that I close the window now. It was ballistic at the time. “
He pulled Interstate 5 to the south but decided to move on when he said Hardsty didn’t demand to close Windows.
Frost said, “So I decided that it would be in our best interest to cancel both rides. He took his first exit south of Ridgefield. He saw a Chevron west of the freeway and pulled over.
“It burns like a football field. It’s safe. It’s hot. All she has to do is order another lift or Uber, and I can, and I can move on with my work, ”he said.
But Hardness’s anger boiled over. Frost said he told him: “Well, no, either you can take me back to the casino or you’re taking me to my destination,” he recalls. Cruelty, he said, told her She would have already paid for the ride, but Frost said she had canceled the trip and the money had not been exchanged.
He said he went closer The front door of the gas station’s convenience store, but Hardsty won’t be able to get out of its four-door black 2019 Hyundai Ionic.
Frost asked her if she had to call the police to remove her and he told her to go ahead.
Hardsty then dialed 911 from the back seat at 9:48 p.m.
Asked what her emergency was, she said, “Well, I have a lift driver who decided he would drop me off at the filling station. Well, I don’t get out of the car, in the dark, at a filling station, it doesn’t happen – all because I told him to put it on the window. I’m not leaving. ”
He said there was no violence here. No weapons were involved.
“He says I have to get out of his car, or he calls the police, so I decided to call them,” he continued.
The dispatcher repeatedly stated harshly that what she described was not a crime, as it was a civil matter, noting that the car was the property of the driver. Sakhtai still asked the police to respond.
“I don’t let him leave me on the side of the road,” he said.
The driver is trying to tell the dispatcher that they are not on the side of the road.
“I paid for the ride. He says he canceled it, “Strictly said.” So I’ll sit here until he sends me another ride. “
The departure asked sternly, “Do you just understand that you can order another ride?”
“I don’t walk until another car arrives,” Sakhtai said.
The dispatch records noted that she would not come out because “it was cold and she was a woman and alone.”
A section of Joe N. Hardstiz’s 911 dispatch record and the elevator driver’s Nov. 1. Ridgefield, Wash Wash call.
The two then waited in silence in the car for the police to arrive, so Frost decided to call the police to file his complaint.
She said she was a ride share driver, that she canceled a customer’s ride and she was refusing to get out of her car. Quickly dispatched the dispatch because its call is related to the one just received, which is confirmed by the dispatch records. The dispatch said a police vehicle would be dispatched, but would be diverted if there was an emergency.
King 9: At another time another lift driver also arrived and a Ridgefield police vehicle with two officers was pulled behind him.
Frost got out of his car and told police what happened from his point of view.
“It was just a ride that didn’t work. It wasn’t going well. I thought it best to cancel the ride, restart and reset. Frost said he told police. “I don’t see any point in sitting in a vehicle with that kind of stress and upset customer for 35 minutes.”
Frost said he did not notice any intoxication or the smell of alcohol from the softness. There was no reference to intoxication in the dispatch records. He said Hardest was wearing a mask.
Hardsty stepped out when an officer approached the rear passenger door. She eventually moved to another elevator, which, according to dispatch records, she had already ordered for the ride home.
“Peace restored restored and the parties involved sent their different ways,” read the entry at 10:10 a.m. on the dispatch report.
That same morning at Ilani Casino that night, Joe Ann Hardeste wrote a complaint to the elevator calling her driver an “angry person.”
The next night, Hardsty sent a complaint to Lift.
“I requested a ride, the driver came to the wrong pick-up location. He then blamed me. “He wrote.” I told him to roll over the window from my side and he started screaming, ‘I can’t because the rules have to break every window (which isn’t true). Then pulling in the dark next to the gas station he told me he was canceling the ride. I had no interest in being left on the side of the road by an angry driver. He threatened to call the police (sic). I called the police and another car. The two arrived at the same time. It is completely inappropriate to expect a dead woman to get out of the vehicle at night because any angry person demands it. This is a safety issue for your customer. There was no risk to your driver. “
A member of the lift safety team known as Gary responded sternly: “As a reminder, the draw-off purse is free to finish the ride for any reason as long as the drop-off is in a safe place. Safety is our priority. We take these matters very seriously. We encourage everyone who uses the elevator to respect others. This helps maintain a safe and inclusive community. “
The Chevron station’s convenience store was closed at 10 p.m., but the station’s night lights remain on because the pump is used 24 hours a day using a credit card, a clerk said.
Frost, 63, who has lived in the Portland metro area for 51 years, Said he got back into his car and got out of the hardsty rear seat. Once back south to I-5, he stopped at the shoulder and called the lift helpline to report a canceled trip.
Only when she was repeating what happened and the full name of the passenger – which she had given to the police – did she know that Hardsty was the Portland City Commissioner, he said.
“She was another passenger.” “I treat everyone the same. I try to be a professional. “
– Maxxin Bernstein
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