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By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, September 25, 2012 About 30 community members gathered outside Portland City Hall on Tuesday to condemn a state board’s ruling that orders the city to reinstate fired police Officer Ron Frashour. Attorney Tom Steenson, representing the family of Aaron Campbell — the unarmed man Frashour fatally shot in the back […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Wednesday, February 08, 2012 Members of the Albina Ministerial Alliance this morning stood with Aaron Campbell’s mother in support of the recent $1.2 million settlement of the family’s federal wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Portland. Marva Davis, Campbell’s mother who had lost another son the day a Portland […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Wednesday, February 01, 2012 The city of Portland has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by the family of Aaron Campbell, who was shot to death by Portland police two years ago. Civil rights attorney Tom Steenson said the $1.2 million Campbell settlement […]
About 100 people gathered this morning on the steps of the Downtown Justice Center in Portland to issue a call for justice in the Aaron Campbell shooting, a botched effort at crisis response that ended up taking a young man’s life. The rally was organized by the Mental Health Association of Portland and the Albina […]
In a three-page letter delivered to District Attorney Michael Schrunk, members of the grand jury in the Aaron Campbell police shooting case said that, although they did not return indictments against officers involved, “something went terribly, terribly wrong… Aaron Campbell should not have died that day.” “He was not accused of a crime,” the letter […]
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