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Oregon police officers are rarely held accountable for undue violence. Here are six possible reasons. by Jason Renaud and Jenny Westberg | Street Roots, June 9, 2015 Whenever police officers use lethal force, they well know there could be consequences, including being charged and prosecuted by the district attorney. Charges may include assault, manslaughter, even […]
Dane Reister was a Portland police officer when, on June 30, 2011, he shot a 20-year-old man with bipolar disorder, William Kyle Monroe. Reister thought he was shooting beanbags, but he had mixed up his ammunition and shot Monroe with live rounds, causing serious and disabling injuries. For more information, click a tag: Dane Reister […]
The Oregonian, Oct. 7, 2014 Portland jury awards Jason Cox $562,000 in police brutality case Jurors 9-3 found that Portland police committed battery against Jason Cox in a beating and tasing incident that was caught on video. A jury’s decision last week to award more than $562,000 to a 40-year-old man who was repeatedly punched in […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Nov. 21, 2013 Portland Police Officer Dane Reister, fired last month for mistakenly loading lethal buckshot into a beanbag shotgun and critically wounding a man two years ago, was never certified to carry the gun — one of a handful of officers who carried beanbag guns on patrol for years […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Oct. 16, 2013 Portland Police Chief Mike Reese has fired Officer Dane Reister, citing his unsatisfactory performance when he mistakenly fired lethal rounds from a beanbag shotgun, critically wounding a man in Southwest Portland on June 30, 2011. READ – MHAP’s response to shooting “This has been a long and […]
From the Oregonian, June 5, 2013 Portland’s City Council on Wednesday approved a $2.3 million settlement to resolve a federal lawsuit filed by William Kyle Monroe, a man diagnosed with bipolar disorder and permanently disabled after Police Officer Dane Reister fired lethal rounds at him from his beanbag shotgun two years ago. The amount marks […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, April 30, 2013 The city of Portland will pay $2.3 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed after Police Officer Dane Reister wounded William Kyle Monroe in 2011 when he mistakenly fired lethal rounds at him from a beanbag shotgun. The proposed settlement was reached after city attorneys and Monroe’s […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, April 11, 2013 Portland Police Officer Dane Reister should lose his job for suddenly firing a beanbag shotgun that he mistakenly loaded with lethal rounds at a man obviously suffering from a mental illness, a federal lawsuit filed Thursday says. READ – Complaint – William Kyle Monroe v City of […]
From the Oregonian, July 3, 2012 A Multnomah County judge ruled Tuesday that prosecutors can admit Officer Dane Reister‘s prior 2006 firearms mistake as evidence in his pending trial stemming from his June 30, 2011 shooting of William Monroe in Southwest Portland. But Judge Jean Kerr Maurer dismissed a negligent wounding charge that the district […]
From The Oregonian, May 17, 2010 A Portland police sergeant testified Thursday that he saw a similarity between Officer Dane Reister‘s mistaken firing of a lethal round from his beanbag shotgun in 2011 and a firearms mix-up Reister made years earlier during training. In both cases “a round was fired improperly out of a weapon,” […]
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