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February 06, 2013 News » City

The Tragic Legacy of James Chasse Jr.

Alien Boy Revisits the Lessons and Lost Opportunities of the 2006 Police Death

by Denis C. Theriault @theriaultpdx

THE PHYSICAL INGREDIENTS that made up James Chasse Jr.'s death on a Sunday afternoon in autumn are both well known and awful. The police officers chasing an obviously terrified and mentally ill man. The tackle so forceful, witnesses could hear the "slap…

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Alien Boy Revisits the Lessons and Lost Opportunities of the 2006 Police Death

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