A fired Forest Grove police officer who created a drunken disturbance outside a home displaying a Black Lives Matter flag wants a court to expunge his conviction for criminal mischief.

But the homeowner opposes the request by Steve C. Teets, so a judge has set a hearing next month to consider it.

“That night remains one of the most terrifying experiences of my life,” Mirella Castaneda said in a letter to the Washington County District Attorney’s Office.

Teets didn’t know the family when he stumbled into their driveway around 1 a.m. on Halloween Oct. 31, 2020, and began banging on the front door and garage, which had been draped in a Black Lives Matter flag. Teets was off duty and drunk.

“I have never feared for my family’s safety or my own as much as I did that night,” Castaneda wrot

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