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Incidents of the use of overwhelming force by law enforcement including physical violence and firearms
Supporters of the Mental Health Association of Portland are deeply disappointed in a Multnomah County Grand Jury’s failure to indict Portland police officer Zachary DeLong, who shot and killed Robert Delgado when he was in a mental health crisis on April 16. This decision shows that our community remains unable to hold Portland’s police officers […]
From The Oregonian, July 15, 2021 Body-worn cameras for all Portland police officers. A qualified civilian supervisor to lead the police training division. Identifying and holding accountable police lieutenants and above who didn’t provide adequate justification for approving uses of force by Rapid Response Team members during Portland’s past year of racial justice protests. Hiring […]
Below are a list of all persons shot and killed, shot and wounded, shot at and not killed, and killed by a conducted electrical weapon (CEW), also known as a Taser, in Oregon, in 2020, by state certified law enforcement. No officers received discipline for any of these incidents from their employers. No county district […]
Published in Street Roots, October 2020 Since Aaron Campbell’s death, at least 20 people with mental health or substance problems have been killed by Portland police. Say their names. Members of the Mental Health Alliance will vote YES on Portland City Ballot Measure 26-217 to form a new and empowered police review board and bring […]
Eds Note: This post is a little far afield for our archive but at a time where our city’s police are using undue and deadly force against relatively peaceful demonstrators everyday, serious proposals directly addressing systemic racism from within authoritarian organizations are particularly interesting. And we had a hard time finding this document online. READ […]
Author – Michael Hopcroft, Board member of the Mental Health Association of Portland On February 25th, a status conference was held in federal court about the settlement of a civil rights case on police use of force. In 2012, the US Department of Justice sued the City of Portland over multiple cases of excessive or […]
Koben Henriksen was the fifth person in a mental health crisis killed by officers of the Portland Police Bureau in 2019. Prior to Henriksen, Portland officers killed Andre Gladen, Jeb Brock, David Downs, and Lane Martin. In the surrounding area, David Engebretson suicided in the custody of deputies of the Clackamas County Sheriff, Dante Halling […]
East Oregonian, January 15, 2019 After seven years as Wheeler County Sheriff, Chris Humphreys found he could no longer connect with his family. The “gloom” in his head just wouldn’t go away. “I was never completely there,” he said, cleaning out his office during his last days on the job. “That’s a hard thing to […]
Family to file suit over police shooting death – Medford Tribune, October 26, 2018 A lawyer representing the parents of a mentally ill man shot dead by Eagle Point police in a Carl’s Jr. bathroom said they plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the Eagle Point Police Department after seeing bodycam footage of […]
Eds. Note – this post will be expanded as the story continues. June 7 – name of the person assaulted is changed in news stories from Kevin Straw to Tessa Lovelace. June 13, 2018 – Charges against Tessa Lovelace for resisting arrest and interfering with a police officer are either dropped or were never filed. […]
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