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From the Oregonian, January 31, 2010 Portland police on Saturday identified an apparently suicidal man shot and killed in Northeast Portland on Friday evening and said an officer was involved in the shooting. The man, Aaron Marcell Campbell, 25, died at the scene. A friend of Campbell’s girlfriend called 9-1-1 about 4:20 p.m. to report […]
Press release from the Portland Police Bureau, January 29, 2010 On Friday, January 29, 2010, at 4:22 p.m., Portland Police Officers responded to a 9-1-1 call regarding a suicidal man who was armed with a gun at an apartment complex located in the 12800 Block of NE Sandy Boulevard. The 9-1-1 call was from a […]
By Steve Duin, The Oregonian – January 30, 2009 As so often happens when you move in the wake of a gifted reporter, there’s not much to add to Maxine Bernstein‘s Saturday story about the exile of Portland police Officer Thomas Brennan. Brennan made the mistake of speaking up about the conduct of Sgt. Kyle […]
From The Oregonian, January 30 2009 Portland police Officer Thomas Brennan was worried his sergeant seemed to be under too much stress while working the streets after his involvement in the controversial death of James P. Chasse Jr. in police custody, the ensuing publicity and pending federal trial. Brennan met with his precinct commander last […]
From: THOMAS BRENNAN [mailto:PRIVATE@msn.com] Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:57 PM To: Reese, Mike; Commissioner Saltzman; Westerman, Scott; Leonard, Randy; maxinebernstein@news.oregonian.com; jpitkin@wweek.com; Auditor, IPR Mail; PRIVATE@comcast.net Subject: Dereliction of Duty Commissioner Saltzman, Let me start off by saying that as a father of a 12 year old boy, and a Police Officer with 16 years […]
From the Oregonian, January 29, 2010 More than two months after Portland police began an internal investigation into Officer Christopher Humphreys‘ Nov. 14 beanbag shotgun shooting of a 12-year-old girl, investigators ordered Humphreys in for his first interview Friday. Humphreys went off work on stress disability leave, shortly after the Portland Police Bureau announced an […]
This page holds a fairly comprehensive archive of all media stories and public documents about what happened to Aaron Campbell on January 29, 2010. Now 400 items to 2/24/10. Man dies in shooting at NE Sandy Blvd. apartments, KATU.com, January 29, 2010 Suicidal man hit with bean bag rounds, then AR-15 rifle shot, KGW.com, January […]
Our friend Joe Parker once told us, for some people with mental illness, “it’s not a question of whether a person will commit suicide, it is a question of when. We who are on the outside should honor the strength and integrity it took to fight off the demons for so long.” Here’s a note […]
From the NY Times, January 26, 20 Judi Chamberlin, whose involuntary confinement in a mental hospital in the 1960s propelled her into a lifelong leading role in the movement to guarantee basic human rights to psychiatric patients, died on Jan. 16 at her home in Arlington, Mass. She was 65. The cause was pulmonary disease, […]
From The Oregonian, January 21, 2010 The ambulance company that responded in 2006 to a police call involving James P. Chasse Jr. and the paramedics who examined him without taking him to a hospital are settling their part of a wrongful death federal lawsuit. American Medical Response Northwest Inc. is the second party to the […]
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