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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 […]
From the Oregonian, September 3, 2008. Not available elsewhere online. A $350,000 settlement has been tentatively reached between the city of Portland and the family of a man who was shot and killed by police in 2004. The proposed deal would end four years of litigation and provide payments into the future for the son […]
From the Willamette Week, February 4th, 2004 – by Nick Budnick Officer Bill Ollenbrook‘s police radio crackled with what sounded like life or death as he entered a low-income downtown apartment building last May. Details were sketchy, but according to the dispatcher, a man, possibly armed, was facing off with cops in a fourth-floor hallway. […]
From The Oregonian, May 12, 2003 They gathered on Mother’s Day to pray and protest. The prayers were for Kendra James, a 21-year-old mother of two shot dead by a Portland police officer May 5. The prayers were sweet and compelling and full of heart. The protests were forceful and filled with a deep concern […]
From The Oregonian, Wednesday, May 7, 2003. This is the first Oregonian news story about the killing of Kendra James. More than 36 hours after Portland Officer Scott McCollister shot and killed a 21-year-old woman who was attempting to drive away from a traffic stop, Portland police said Tuesday they did not know why he […]
Unsigned opinion editorial, The Oregonian, May 7, 2003 Critics said it would be a lapdog for the Portland Police Bureau. And it’s true that, in its first year of operations, the Independent Police Review Division hasn’t found the occasion to do much snarling. Nevertheless, we think the division has demonstrated that there’s a happy medium […]
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