Posted on 11/29/2007 3:12:00 PM PST by SmithL
Oakland -- When Hans and Nina Reiser met at the Oakland Police Department to exchange their children, their exchanges were so hostile that one officer recommended she get a gun, according to courtroom testimony today.
Retired Oakland police Officer Ben Denson testified that the enmity between the two was apparent when they used the downtown police headquarters to pick up and drop off their children in 2005.
"It was almost an ever-present thing," Denson testified in Alameda County Superior Court. "They rarely talked for any length of time, but when they did engage in face-to-face conversation, it was my impression - this is what I observed - the defendant displayed hostility toward Nina, and I would call it barely restrained aggression."
During one particularly acrimonious visit, Denson said he gave Nina Reiser some chilling advice: "I told her, 'You need to get yourself a gun.' "
Nina Reiser was 31 when she disappeared in September 2006 after dropping off her son and daughter at the Oakland hills home of her estranged husband. Hans Reiser, 43, is on trial for allegedly murdering his wife, whose body has never been found. The defense has said that Nina Reiser might be living in her native Russia and could be avoiding her children until the end of the trial.
In court today, Denson said although he never witnessed any physical fights between the two at the Police Department, he was concerned to the point that he went outside the building to check on them during one exchange.
"He never put his hands on her but, you know, I could tell by the way he was looking at her, there was menace in his eyes," Denson said. "It was very hostile."
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Cops encouraging a sheeple to defend themselves...
Is this scrappleface?
How likely is it that if she got a gun, she could get a concealed carry permit in Oakland?
In CA, no less?
Probably forced out.
I am so glad I have no problems like some of these people do..If only everyone could just talk things out instead of so much violence..I believe every adult that has not been in trouble with the police should have a gun.. but first learn how to use it..
So what did she do to deserve those menacing looks..
Just Curious...lol
I don’t buy half the “helpless women act” anyway..
W
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