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A former Los Angeles deputy city attorney has been charged with assaulting
police with a pole after creating a scene at San Francisco International
Airport in which she vandalized a coffee kiosk, authorities say.
Angela West, 50, a Harvard Law School graduate, was seen by airport police
officers smashing merchandise, milk containers and other food items with a
3-foot-long metal pole at a Peet's Coffee kiosk at SFO on Christmas Eve,
said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. When officers tried
to speak to her, West raged at them and began swinging the pole, which she
had taken from a janitor's cart, Wagstaffe said.
An officer had to use a chair to fend off at least 10 blows, authorities
said. West then calmed down and sat in a booth, only to start throwing items
at the officers, Wagstaffe said. When the officers tried to arrest her, she
kicked one of them in the groin, Wagstaffe said. After being subdued, West
shouted out that she was a lesbian and that the officers should stop trying
to have sex with her, the prosecutor said.
West was taken to a hospital and held in a psychiatric ward for a week,
Wagstaffe said. At a court hearing Tuesday, Judge Barbara Mallach allowed
West to represent herself after learning that she had attended Harvard Law
and was admitted to the California State Bar in 1989. West, however, has
been inactive since 1997.
West pleaded not guilty at Tuesday's hearing, at which she also demanded a
copy of the police report. Prosecutors asked for more time to prepare a
redacted copy by removing witnesses' addresses, but West objected, saying
she was a former prosecutor and was entitled to the information, Wagstaffe
said. (In Los Angeles, deputy city attorneys handle misdemeanor criminal
cases, among other matters). West received the redacted report at a hearing
Wednesday. She is being held in custody in lieu of $10,000 bail, after she
argued successfully to have it reduced from $25,000.
-SF Chronicle, 1/9/11
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