90-day term for offences
By Delon Shurtz on February 19, 2021.
A confrontation with police officers didn’t end well for Troy Eagle Tail Feathers, who tried to goad the officers into a fight on Dec. 14, 2019.
The drunken Eagle Tail Feathers was causing a disturbance in the front yard of a westside residence when several police officers arrived. They kept their distance while trying to convince the upset man to comply with their orders, but he refused.
Eagle Tail Feathers, who had a bottle of vodka in his back pocket and would occasionally take a swig during the faceoff with police, continued to yell, and urged the officers to fight. At one point he got down on his knees as if to surrender, but as police approached he stood and again became confrontational.
And he wasn’t deterred when officers brandished a sock gun, which shoots small beanbag rounds.
“F— you guys. Come and get me,” he said.
The combatant was Tasered, but it was ineffective when one of the prongs didn’t attach. However, when he moved aggressively toward the officers, he was shot with the sock gun.
“That certainly took all the fight out of Mr. Tail Feathers,” Crown Prosecutor Clayton Giles said Wednesday, when he described the incident in Lethbridge provincial court.
Even after Eagle Tail Feathers was handcuffed and placed in a police vehicle, he continued to threaten the officers, and said he would come to their homes and kill them.
Eagle Tail Feathers pleaded guilty to single counts of uttering threats, resisting a peace officer, causing a disturbance and failing to comply with conditions of probation.
He was sentenced to 90 days in jail, which was reduced to 73 days for time he had already spent in custody after his arrest.
Defence told court Eagle Tail Feathers has been doing better since the incident, and he has received treatment and is in a new relationship. He also plans to enroll in educational upgrading and training.
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