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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 Karen McCowan, The Register-Guard, Dec. 1, 2012 A Eugene man has filed a $3 million civil rights lawsuit against the Eugene Police Department and three officers for allegedly entering his home without permission and taking his mentally ill adult son to a local hospital, where he died of cardiac arrest after being “prescribed an […]
From The Oregonian, November 18, 2009 The City of Portland has filed expert testimony that indicates they’ll be arguing that a component of James P. Chasse Jr.’s death in police custody was due to “excited delirium,” a clue to the direction of the city’s defense as it prepares for trial. The case’s federal court docket […]
Unsigned editorial from the Portland Tribune, July 9 2009 The sad story of 42-year-old James P. Chasse Jr., who died in 2006 after a brutal encounter with police in downtown Portland, and the equally tragic case of 27-year-old Fouad Kaady, a Portland resident who was killed a year earlier by police in Clackamas County, have […]
From The Oregonian, July 1 2009 The city of Sandy and a former police officer have reached a $1 million settlement with the family of a 27-year-old Gresham man who was unarmed, naked, burned and bleeding when police shot him to death in 2005. The shooting sparked outrage from the family, high-profile media attention and […]
Oregon State Senate Bill 111, passed in 2007, in part requires each Oregon county to create a plan regarding the use of deadly force by police offices and sheriff’s deputies. Persons with mental illness and addiction, and their friends and family members are particularly concerned how police officers are trained to use deadly force, and […]
From the Oregonian, November 26 2008 What happened: A federal judge’s ruling Wednesday paved the way for a trial in the case of a Portland man shot and killed by police on a rural Clackamas County highway in September 2005. The case: Fouad Kaady was 27 when Officer William Bergin of the Sandy Police Department […]
The following names were chalked onto the sidewalk outside the Portland Police Bureau’s Central Precinct and the Multnomah County Justice Center on September 16 2007 Andrew “A.J.” Hanlon, shot July 30, 2008, by a Silverton police officer after a confrontation on a residential street corner. Glenn Shipman, died Aug. 26, 2007, three days after Scappoose […]
What Happened to Fouad Kaady Fouad Kaady was shot and killed by Clackamas County Sheriff deputy David Willard and Sandy Police officer William Bergin on September 8, 2005. We have collected every publicly available document and existing media article about what happened to Fouad and arranged it in order and in a permanent archive – […]
From The Oregonian, November 9, 2006 Two years ago deputies responding to a call of a resident disturbing the peace shot and killed the woman after she charged them with a knife. The residents, a Clackamas County mental health worker has advised the deputies, are still a little on edge. The visit is part of […]
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