PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury in Kootenai County, Idaho, has acquitted Portland police Capt. Todd Wyatt in a road rage case.
The Oregonian reported (http://bit.ly/yJkPLC ) the verdict on a misdemeanor charge of “exhibition or use of a deadly weapon” came Thursday.
Wyatt was returning from vacation in August with his wife and two teenage children in a pickup truck on Interstate 90 near Post Falls. A driver in a car said he pointed a pistol.
Wyatt’s lawyer said the officer held his badge and holstered gun to the windshield because the vehicles nearly collided and the other motorist cut him off several times and slowed down.