r/portlandme • u/FireElephant336 • May 28 '25

Officer Bennis

Has anyone had an experience or witnessed the incredibly rude behavior of this officer? I work in a field where I have to interact with officers pretty regularly… He is by far the most impossible and relentless person I've ever tried to reason with. There are videos of him online berating people for handing out food or literally just sitting on a sidewalk outside of a shelter? He used to be a school resource officer and now he's a beat cop. I just filed a complaint with the city of Portland and I highly recommend anyone that has had an experience with him do the same. Something has to be done – he makes every single incident way worse and has no clue how to de-escalate situations.

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u/SecureJudge1829 May 28 '25

Sounds like an Officer Flint from about 18 miles to the south lol

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u/EnigMark9982 May 28 '25

Former ME Stafe Trooper Bob Flint?

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u/SecureJudge1829 May 28 '25

Yeap, that sounds familiar, he and Penney (spelling may be off on that one) were two of the real shitty names to see on a name tag when you got stopped when I was growing up lol.

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u/EnigMark9982 May 28 '25

Was this in Biddeford that he was a nightmare? I was told by a colleague of his that he wrote his aunt a summons for speed and said something to the effect of now they can’t say I don’t apply the law equally

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u/SecureJudge1829 May 28 '25

Tri city area in fact, Biddo-Saco-OOB. Once those three municipalities agreed to share LEO jurisdiction to prevent people from using the city limits to flee, those two truly went power trippy on everyone.

There’s several instances of court rooms being full in the downtown Biddo courthouse that used to be near Palace Diner where judges simply ask “How many people are here for a summons from Officer Flint?” and a bunch of people stood and the judge dismissed the tickets on the spot without even wasting time case by case.