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By Christine Schofelt, World Socialist Web Site, May 28, 2014 Brian Lindstrom’s 2013 film Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse, available through Amazon and in theatrical release, makes no attempt at an evasive “even-handedness” in presenting the case of 42-year-old James Chasse, a man [diagnosed with schizophrenia] who was cruelly beaten by […]
You can now download and read new and important documents from CHASSE v HUMPHREYS, released to the public July 2 2009. These documents are posted here as an independent, impartial and permanent public service. The attached 76 page document includes Page 1-10, Transcript of video deposition of eyewitness Mark J Ginsberg, taken on behalf of […]
You can now download and read new and important documents from CHASSE v HUMPHREYS, released to the public July 2 2009. These documents are posted here as an independent, impartial and permanent public service. The attached 44 page document includes Page 1-9, Transcript of video deposition of Deputy Philip A Hubert III, taken on behalf […]
From the Portland Mercury, November 26, 2006 The official police investigative reports into the in-custody death of James Philip Chasse Jr. on September 17 appear to have ignored—or at least heavily re-interpreted—the direct testimony of several independent witnesses. The police investigation found that Chasse was killed because Officer Christopher Humphreys “accidentally fell” on him, as […]
From The Oregonian, November 10, 2006 When a Project Respond mental health worker and a Portland officer came to check on James P. Chasse Jr. on Sept. 15, Chasse came out of his apartment, spotted the uniformed officer and repeatedly chanted, “Don’t hurt me,” before he ran out of the building. Project Respond, an agency […]
From the Associated Press, November 10, 2006 Two days before James Chasse died, a mental health worker asked a Portland police officer to put him in the department’s data base as a patient and to call her agency if he was found. Medics and police check on a man who later died in police custody. […]
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