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By Christine Schofelt, World Socialist Web Site, May 28, 2014 Brian Lindstrom’s 2013 film Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse, available through Amazon and in theatrical release, makes no attempt at an evasive “even-handedness” in presenting the case of 42-year-old James Chasse, a man [diagnosed with schizophrenia] who was cruelly beaten by […]
The Oregonian, 5/31/14, excerpt from “Oregon rural police: Sheriffs, district attorneys speak out on their challenges” If you have spent the last 7 1/2 years chained to the floor of a concrete bunker, underground, in Antarctica, while comatose, and worse yet, it caused you to miss the film Alien Boy – see it immediately. Then you’ll […]
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 […]
By Brian Lindstrom, in the Portland Tribune, Feb. 21, 2013 As parents of a 7- and an 8-year-old, my wife Cheryl Strayed and I often discuss what we hope to impart to our children. At the top of that list is resilience, which I define not only as the ability to persevere despite obstacles but […]
By Aaron Mesh, Willamette Week, Feb. 19, 2013 Barely 48 hours before the first police-involved shooting of Mayor Charlie Hales‘ term—the killing of an emergency room patient allegedly waving a gun outside Portland Adventist Medical Center on Feb. 17—the mayor sat through a crash course on what not to do. Hales attended the Feb. 15 […]
Former Portland Police Bureau officer Christopher Humphreys has won the position of Sheriff for Wheeler County, Oregon. A radio journalist who broadcasts in Central Oregon called yesterday to ask, “are persons with mental illness no longer safe in Central Oregon?” No, but they have never been safe in Central Oregon. If persons who live in […]
From The Oregonian, November 7, 2012 Chris Humphreys, the Portland police officer who faced public scrutiny for two separate on-the-job incidents in 2006 and 2009, and also gained notoriety for his involvement in the city’s most expensive settlement in recent history, was elected Tuesday as the Wheeler County Sheriff. Wheeler County elections clerk Barbara Sitton […]
Guest column by Jenny Westberg, published in The Oregonian, July 18, 2012 An arbitrator’s decision last week to overturn 80-hour suspensions against Portland police officers involved in the 2006 death of James Chasse will further erode community confidence in the police, particularly among those affected by mental illness. Although the police union considers the ruling […]
unsigned opinion by the editors of The Oregonian, July 17, 2012 No doubt, Chris Humphreys and Kyle Nice were pleased with an arbitrator’s decision this month related to the 2006 death of James Chasse. At least someone is. Portland residents have every reason to be disgusted, and the rest of Portland’s police force should be […]
In the past three decades, Portland police chiefs have fired officers who were convicted of driving drunk off duty, leaving dead animals outside a black-owned business, and selling “Smoke ‘Em, Don’t Choke ‘Em” T-shirts to officers after a man died in police custody from a neck hold. The chiefs had to bring them all back. […]
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