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Travis Anthony Moore, 38, was shot to death by one or both of two Oregon City police officers, David Edwins and David Plummer, on May 21. The officers were attempting to serve Moore with an arrest warrant for failure to appear on a previous charge. Moore had schizophrenia, according to his brother, Adam. +++ Man killed […]
UPDATE: March 14 – Clackamas County declined to repair the $15,000+ damage the Clackamas County Sheriff’s deputies did to the Kalonji apartment with bombs and bullets on January 28. Clackamas News Review – March 7, 2016 A Clackamas County grand jury has concluded that county deputies were justified in using deadly defensive force in the […]
Portland Tribune, Feb. 15, 2016 At the rain-and-tear-soaked funeral of 19-year-old Christopher Kalonji on Thursday, family and friends were able to gather and grieve the death of the 2014 Rex Putnam High School graduate. Not laid to rest, however, were the questions surrounding why he died from a gunshot wound following a mental health crisis […]
KNOWN FACTS – Chris Kalonji was shot and killed by a Clackamas County Sheriff’s Deputy on January 28, 2016. He was 19, a person of color and a persons with mental illness. Parents say son killed in Oak Grove SWAT standoff was a ‘bright boy’ in ‘mental crisis’ KPTV.com February 5, 2016 The family of […]
Eds. Note – the text below is from The Portland Indymedia Video Collective. Their online film was an important inspiration to the makers of Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse. In the early afternoon of September 8, 2005, police encountered Fouad Kaady shortly after he was in an accident that left him […]
By the Associated Press on AZCentral.com, April 26, 2013 An Oregon police officer fired for driving drunk in an unmarked police car while off-duty has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the city, the police chief and others, alleging his rights were violated under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The lawsuit filed in Portland says […]
By Rick Bella, The Oregonian, Jan. 15, 2013 A Hubbard-area man shot by police after a five-hour standoff was set to face an attempted murder charge Tuesday for allegedly pointing a gun at a deputy. But the charge was dropped after police could not find a weapon. Authorities then canceled a court appearance scheduled for […]
By Rick Bella, The Oregonian, Jan. 14, 2013 A tense, five-hour standoff with a heavily armed, suicidal Hubbard-area man ended early Monday when the man was shot by a Clackamas County SWAT team member. The man, Paul Jeffrey Smith, was wounded in the arm. He was rushed by ambulance to Silverton Hospital, where he was […]
By Andrea Damewood, Willamette Week, Dec. 12, 2012 It’s an otherwise slow Monday night, but Officer Casey Hettman is tense. He and two other Portland police officers move through a dingy hallway and flank the locked apartment door. Behind the door is an agitated man who believes President Obama is ordering him to kill. The […]
Summary: On August 15, 2012 Michael Justin Evans was shot and killed by Gladstone police officers in front of his home. Police knew Evans was a person with a mental illness. Man dead in officer-involved shooting in Gladstone From the Oregonian, August 15, 2012 The incident took place about 10:30 p.m. in the 300 block […]
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