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Butcher Shop Owner: Off-Duty Officer Pulled Out Gun Over Jerky

POSTED: 6:03 am PST December 22, 2007
UPDATED: 2:05 pm PST December 22, 2007

A Vancouver police officer is on paid administrative leave after witnesses said he flew into a rage and pulled out a gun at a local butcher shop.

Vancouver police were called to a butcher shop on Northeast Fourth Plain Boulevard around 4 p.m. Friday to investigate a disturbance involving an off-duty officer.

The owner of the Top Choice Meat Market, Mike Brannan, said the off-duty officer was upset because 4 pounds of his deer jerky was seasoned incorrectly.

Brannan said he told the officer he didn't have to pay for the jerky, but he continued to yell in the store.

When Brannan gave the officer his meat and told him never to come back to the shop, that's when he pulled out a gun, according to Brannan.

"At that point, he jumped back with the gun and says if I come any closer he'd shoot me," said Brannan. "I turned around and ran for the door. All of the customers were freaking out and trying to hide."

According to police, the officer at some point felt threatened by the actions of the employee and that is why he pulled out his handgun.

The name of the officer has not been released and the case has been turned over to the Clark County Sheriff's Office for investigation.

The officer is on paid-administrative leave, which is part of standard operating procedure.

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