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KATU News, Sept. 16, 2016 It’s been nearly 10 years since James Chasse, a man with paranoid schizophrenia, died in police custody after Portland officers beat him. An advocate for the mentally ill says despite many reforms, justice is still not served. Portland’s police chief told KATU Friday the bureau has come a long way […]
Portland Tribune, June 28, 2016 Clackamas County is refusing to pay the parents of a 19-year-old who was killed by police for the damages to their apartment by bloodstains and a tear-gas bomb launched by SWAT members. After living at the apartment in Oak Grove for more than 15 years, lrene and Antonie Kalonji didn’t […]
The Oregonian, Feb. 27, 2016 An Oak Grove teen fatally shot by Clackamas County deputies during an apparent mental health crisis at his apartment last month told authorities that he was going to die that day, court documents say. About ninety minutes before Christopher Kalonji, 19, was to appear for a 9 a.m. hearing in Multnomah […]
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 […]
by Jason Renaud and Jenny Westberg, Street Roots, 15 May 2015 For years, our organization, the Mental Health Association of Portland, has chronicled, eulogized and remembered persons who have been on the receiving end of Portland-area police violence. Today we’re sharing these names with you, recognizing early on that many were people barely noticed even […]
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