On Wednesday, September 2, at 5:47 p.m., East Precinct officers responded to the report of an adult man who was stabbing himself with a knife at a home in the 7800 block of S.E. Tolman Street, in the Mt. Scott-Arleta neighborhood of Inner Southeast Portland.
Officers assigned to the Enhanced Crisis Intervention Team – who have advanced communications training for crisis situations – were the ones dispatched to the address.
When they arrived, they learned that the man had barricaded himself inside the house and was cutting himself with a knife. Officers developed a plan to take the man into custody in a “Police Officer Hold”, so he could receive medical attention – but the man refused to come outside…