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The Portland Mercury, April 23, 2014 “WE TACKLED HIM.” The words are indistinct—sort of blurred at the edges, bleeding into one another. They are surrounded by other hazy noises, and followed by the laughter of jail deputies engaging in a bit of collegial bonhomie on a September evening. But less than an hour later, the […]
From KATU.com, July 29, 2010 While the city’s settlement payment to the family of a man who died in police custody may bring an end to a wrongful-death lawsuit, some said Wednesday the case can’t be resolved with money. Many people, including city commissioners, said they hope the lessons learned from the death of James […]
From The Skanner, March 31, 2010. Guest opinion by Jason Renaud. The board of the Mental Health Association of Portland do not endorse the tactics taken Monday evening by protesters in the streets of downtown Portland. We don’t endorse violence in any form – verbal or physical, active or threatened, against persons or property. Simply […]
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 […]
From the Oregonian, November 3, 2009 Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman is proposing that two officers involved in the stop of James P. Chasse Jr. , who died in police custody in 2006, be suspended without pay for 80 hours each for failing to have Chasse transported by ambulance to a hospital, both before and after […]
From KATU.com, August 28 2009 An ambulance company general manager took the stand Friday defending his company in a $5 million lawsuit. WATCH – KATU.com video by Anna Song Randy Lauer of American Medical Response of Oregon said he takes complaints about his paramedics seriously. But Royshekka Herring, who is suing the company, said she […]
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 30 page document includes Page 1-3, Prehospital Care Report by American Medical Response, signed by EMTs Tamara Hergert & […]
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 […]
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