A case is pending in Lewis County 2nd District Court involving a 76-year-old Kamiah man who has been charged with a felony after allegedly striking another man who was displaying an “F-Biden” flag on his pickup truck.
Chad R. Erickson has been charged with aggravated assault using a deadly weapon during an altercation April 17 with David Bowers. Erickson’s arraignment in Nezperce on Tuesday was postponed because Judge Adam H. Green was not available. A clerk at the Lewis County district court office said the arraignment has not yet been rescheduled.
According to court records, the incident occurred in the Cloninger’s grocery store parking lot in Kamiah on April 17 when Erickson allegedly asked Bowers to remove the flag from his truck.
Erickson told Lewis County Deputy Morgan Saul that Bowers was driving through town with the flag. “I was raised better than that,” Erickson said to the deputy. “So was he … and we have laws against language like that in public.”
When Saul reminded Erickson that Bowers had First Amendment protection of free speech, Erickson reportedly replied that the “F” word was not protected speech.
“So I asked him to take his flag down and he said no,” Erickson reportedly said, according to court documents. “We got belligerent and I turned to leave. He pushed me from behind. … So I got to the truck and I pulled my wrench out to defend myself.”
Saul reported in an affidavit that eyewitness and video accounts of the altercation contradict some of Erickson’s description of events.
Erickson is represented by Wesley W. Hoyt. Lewis County Prosecutor Zachary Pall is representing the state.
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Putting the finishing touches on my F*ck Eugene flag that I'll be driving through Arimo, McCammon and Downey the next few days.
Get ahold of me I'll ride with you!!!!!
Sure you will.
Ha ha.......you're in your 80s? It's a free country
Douchebag, you enjoy yourself.
I'm pretty sure he's going to out live you by about twenty years. You should get your affairs in order.
You mean smite all my enemies? That's what I had in mind.
The two party system is dysfunctional and does not work for us. Because it looks like that next year we'll be facing a choice between two hostile senile old men again. One of them is a war monger and the other is a selfish liar. This is the root cause of all the political violence we are seeing now. This Country is great, and there are many honest talented hard working leader fit for the job. It is time to brake the two party strong hold on power. Do not let them divide us and concur. Love your neighbor as yourself. Be peaceful and civilized. Let's all get together next November with voting for a reasonable nation-wide independent candidate.
Selfish liar? Biden has lied about meeting foreigners who bribed him and Hunter....
Are you stupid or something? Love your neighbor
Unless it's a radical leftist commiecrat kook.
Good for Mr. Erickson!!!
Yep, democrats are the true fascists, from forced
Vaccines to telling you what flag you can fly. They
Really need to move to a blue state......better for
Me, better for you, better for the country.
Yeah and republicans are just a bunch of moral midgets driving around with stupid flags on their pickups. They really need to act more like the patriots they pretend to be. I would like to give this 76 year old man a pat on the back!
And you're a stupid old nazi punk that should move to northern california and take your conservative idiot friends back to where they belong.
Your new name is Ricky......Ricky Retardo.
You should take time to read a book before you burn it.
I would rather burn democrats, I hear they go up
Like a vat full of pork fat.
Well why don't you stop talking about and see what you can make happen.
Ok
I'll pick up your bud light cans in the morning.
Come by any time, my dogs haven't had BBQed
democrat in weeks.
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