Good morning, Portland. Here are some links you should click.

First up, out in print as of yesterday (pick up a copy): The Portland Police Bureau publicly disavowed Trump's pro-police brutality speech and then argued a few days later it's ok to punch resisting suspects in the face.

Demonstrators at City Hall last year.
Demonstrators at City Hall last year. Dirk VanderHart

Also out in print as of yesterday is Dirk VanderHart's story on contentious police oversight changes and Portland City Council. On the same note, police accountability advocates had some good news yesterday afternoon.

The City of Portland will buy property that now has a strip club on Powell and SE 30th—Safari Showclub—to build 200 to 300 affordable housing units.

Oregon just became the the fifth state to raise the age to buy tobacco to 21, joining California, Hawaii, Maine, and New Jersey.

Two Panera Bread employees in Beaverton broke into a dude's hot van to rescue two dogs yesterday. “I’m sure they care about their dogs and everything, they just made a mistake of leaving them out here too long,” one of them said. “By the time we got them out, they had been in there for at least 45 minutes that we knew of.”


This is a wild story about a former Clackamas County detective on trial for robbery.

The Portland Tribune has a good long story about a Portland Public School teacher keeping his job despite multiple instances of violence against women and other crimes.

A lot of people are going to die because the president is dumb and uncontrollably impulsive.