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From the Portland Tribune, November 20, 2008 Schrunk’s top assistant, “Maximum” Norm Frink, has said his office will criminally review whether officer Christopher Humphreys lied to detectives. But it’s an open question about what that means. A jail video released last month shows that on the night James Chasse Jr., died following an altercation with […]
From the Portland Tribune, November 1, 2006. Late Wednesday afternoon, Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk released a scathing report finding that the county has “some of the most expensive jails of any urban area in the nation,” citing a variety of mismanagement including “rampant” sick-time abuse at the jail system overseen by elected county […]
From The Oregonian – October 4, 2006 James P. Chasse Jr., the 42-year-old man who died Sept. 17 after three officers struggled to arrest him, suffered more than a dozen fractured ribs, some that punctured his left lung and caused massive internal bleeding, according to an autopsy report released by his family’s attorney Tuesday. The […]
From The Oregonian, November 24, 2005. Not available elsewhere online. “You’re not in trouble. We want you to get help. That’s why we’re here.” — Hostage negotiator Rae Klein, trying to persuade Raymond Gwerder to put down his gun shortly before he was shot Several Multnomah County grand jurors who reviewed the police fatal shooting […]
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, August 26, 1994 When Portland-area police fatally fired on Gale E. Moody and Janet Marilyn Smith in separate incidents this week, they were doing exactly what they’ve been taught to do. Police training and tactical weaponry now offer little middle ground between negotiating with someone threatening harm and using deadly force. Once […]
All stories in this post are from The Oregonian. They are not available elsewhere online. WOMAN DIES IN CONFRONTATION WITH POLICE August 26, 1994 Two Portland police officers called to investigate a neighborhood dispute Wednesday evening shot and killed a woman after she refused to drop a fake handgun she had pointed at them. According […]
From The Oregonian, October 9, 1993 – not available elsewhere online Eds. Note – Officer Erickson was later reinstated by Mayor Katz. Portland Police Chief Charles Moose fired Officer Douglas Erickson on Friday for excessive use of force after the policeman fired 22 shots at a man who ran from a Tri-Met bus in July. […]
From the Oregonian, September 10, 1989 Overdose: cocaine and crime in Portland – the first of twelve parts READ – all parts of Overdose: cocaine and crime in Portland Sgt. John Bunnell, an undercover narcotics officer with the Multnomah County sheriff’s department, made big news back in 1979 when he seized 5 ounces of cocaine. […]
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