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By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, May 17, 2013 The City of Portland would pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who was injured during a March 2010 anti-police protest, under an ordinance that will go before city commissioners Wednesday. The encounter, captured on television footage, resulted in injuries to Clifford Richardson. He […]
By Jason Renaud and Jenny Westberg This article appeared in Oregon Trial Lawyer magazine, Summer 2011 The most discriminated against class of persons – in any place, at any time, within any society – are persons with an active mental illness. Race, religion, class – any and all of these biases are there as well, […]
From the Portland Mercury, July 13, 2011 In a unanimous decision quietly posted this month to the Portland Police Bureau’s website, the city’s newly activated, five-member Police Review Board has decided against any sanctions for the officer who shot Jack Dale Collins, a mentally ill homeless man holding an X-Acto knife, outside Hoyt Arboretum last […]
Here are the 103 documents circulated by the Portland Police Bureau on April 5 about the March 22, 2010 shooting death of Jack Dale Collins. Also included on this page are four 911 audio files, the PPB dispatch audio file and the complete 24 MB file of all documents. Cover Sheet – Portland Police Bureau […]
Guest opinion by Jack Hart, published in The Oregonian, April 4, 2010 The day before a Portland police officer killed Jack Collins, I stepped onto my deck to enjoy the sunshine. Incoherent shouts and mournful howls floated out of Washington Park, the ranting of some tortured soul perched on the John Reed Memorial Bench. Who […]
By Sarah Mirk of the Portland Mercury, April 1, 2010 What We Now Know About the Homeless Man Shot by Portland Police On Monday March 22, at 3:30 pm, Jack Dale Collins lay on the ground at Hoyt Arboretum, bleeding to death. Officer Jason Walters had just fired four shots into Collins, hitting an artery […]
Today or tomorrow the Multnomah County grand jury will finish reviewing why Portland Police officer Jason Walters shot and killed Jack Dale Collins on March 22 at Hoyt Arboretum. Based on all prior grand juries since at least 1981, this one will not instruct the District Attorney to file charges against officer Walters. No family […]
Just 11 days before he was killed by a Portland police officer, Jack Dale Collins, 58, walked into a police station and asked for mental health care, according to a police report. Police say the shooting was justified, but many Portlanders are questioning Officer Jason Walters’ decision to use deadly force, and hundreds of self-proclaimed […]
Jack Dale Collins, known to his friends as Jackie, was a late-stage alcoholic who also was known to cut himself on the arms and face. This cutting is sometimes a symptom of a mental illness, possible one of many, including trauma disorders, psychotic disorders, depression or personality disorders. Jack lived in Portland for several years […]
It may be months or years, if ever, before we learn what happened at the Hoyt Arboretum on March 22, 2010. Remember – the key witness is Jason Walters, a veteran police officer, but also the shooter and therefore an extremely biased witness to a potential crime. And remember – many of the reported facts […]
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