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By Denis C. Theriault, The Portland Mercury, October 20, 2011 They are questions, for any curious citizen, that ought to come with simple answers. How much does the use of excessive force and other inappropriate actions by Portland police officers—the stuff of tort claims and jury trials, but not always newspaper headlines—wind up costing taxpayers? […]
This post will collect the initial press clippings from the Portland Police shooting on June 30 & July 1, 2011. PRESS RELEASE, Portland Police Bureau – Portland Police Investigating Officer-Involved Shooting in SW Portland – June 30, 2011 PRESS RELEASE, Portland Police Bureau – Update on Today’s Officer-Involved Shooting – June 30, 2011 PRESS RELEASE, […]
From the Oregonian, November 10, 2007. Not available elsewhere online. Leo Besner, the Portland police officer at the center of a $500,000 city settlement with the family of a man he shot in 2005, was involved in another shooting six years earlier. When the settlement was announced Thursday, Robert J. King, the president of the […]
From the Oregonian, November 9, 2007. Not available elsewhere online. The city of Portland is set to pay a record $500,000 settlement in connection with a 2005 fatal shooting in which a 30-year-old college student was shot in the back by a Portland Police Bureau sniper following a 90-minute armed standoff. Any settlement more than […]
From The Oregonian, October 30, 2003 The state medical examiner’s office has ruled that the death of a teenager who traded gunshots with a Portland police officer after a traffic stop last week was a suicide. Eddie Homsombath, 19, put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger Oct. 21 after he crashed his […]
From the Portland Tribune, April 27, 2001 Portland police officers on Thursday were cleared of wrongdoing by a Multnomah County grand jury in the arrest and subsequent fatal shooting of Jose Santos Victor Mejia Poot on April 1 at a Sellwood psychiatric hospital. The grand jury ruled that Portland police officer Jeffrey Bell did not […]
All stories in the post are from The Oregonian – not available elsewhere online POLICE: MAN THEY KILLED IN SHOOTOUT HAD DEATH WISH September 24, 1997 From all that Portland police have been able to learn, the Southeast resident they shot to death Tuesday evening wanted to die. He had a long history of depression […]
From The Oregonian, December 17, 1991 – not available elsewhere online. To his friends at Roosevelt High School, Johnny Lozano George was a happy student who pulled down passing grades and was interested in basketball and track. But to police , he was a young man with a history of arrests dating back to 1987 […]
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