The City started the program, facilitated by Judith Mowry from the Office of Neighborhood Involvement, so that citizens could air their feelings without the pressure of a controversial incident hanging over their heads. Unfortunately tonight’s meeting at 6:30, at the AME Zion Church on Skidmore and Vancouver, comes following a hugely controversial police shooting. It’ll […]
Matt Davis
Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.
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Skanner Editorial: Readers, Don’t Call Cops
Read the whole thing here. Having an Emergency? Don’t Call the Police…The fact is, we at The Skanner News simply have to warn our readers away from calling the police when they are in a crisis situation. We cannot have faith that innocents won’t get caught in the firing line when trigger-finger officers arrive in […]
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Bradbury/Kitzhaber In Country Club Kerfuffle
Democratic Gubernatorial primary candidate Bill Bradbury has canceled a planned appearance on Thursday at the Oswego Lake Country Club. Here’s a quote from his campaign: “In a time when Oregonians are hurting, unemployment is at historic levels, hunger issues abound and people are losing their homes, I think it sends absolutely the wrong message as […]
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Republican Legislator Matt Wingard Plagiarizes Entire Global Warming Speech
MATT WINGARD AND HAMBURGLAR: ONE STEALS CLIMATE CHANGE DIATRIBES, THE OTHER ONLY STEALS “HAMBURGERS…” Good on Kari Chisholm, editor and publisher at Blue Oregon. He appears to have caught State Representative Matt Wingard with his hands in the cookie jar—plagiarizing a speech he gave on the house floor last week about global warming. Chisholm writes: […]
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Recall Recall Now Seems Dominated By Mannix—Updated With Mannix Response: “Bemused & Detached”
Recall 2 spokeswoman Avel Gordly told the Mercury in early January that the new campaign to recall Mayor Sam Adams is “not about Kevin Mannix and what he supports or does not support.” But at this point, it seems to be almost exclusively about the former head of the Republican Party in Oregon: Firms associated […]
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Jesse Jackson To Speak In Portland On Campbell Shooting Tuesday Night
Here’s a press release from the Albina Ministerial Alliance reprinted from Jack Bog’s blog. JACKSON: TO ADDRESS CAMPBELL SHOOTING IN PORTLAND, TUESDAY NIGHT Portland OR,—Rev. Jesse Jackson will be in Portland on Tuesday, February 16 in response to the shooting death of Aaron Campbell on January 29th. Rev. Jackson will participate in a news conference […]
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Sharpton’s Group Will Probe Campbell Shooting
As first hinted at earlier this week in Willamette Week, the Portland Tribune has now confirmed that the Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network plans to probe the January 29 shooting of Aaron Campbell. The request came during a broadcast of Sharpton’s “Keeping it Real” radio show. “We are not satisfied and do not accept […]
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Katu Covers Jamal Green Story
KATU briefly covered my Jamal Green story from earlier this week last night. Didn’t give credit, despite having called up on Thursday asking for pictures of the young man and congratulating us on the coverage. Still, I’m glad it’s getting wider play—even if KATU isn’t our official “news partner” like it is WW‘s. As usual, […]
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Campbell Shooting: Saltzman Will Review Police Interactions With Mentally Ill
Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman has responded to the Grand Jury’s letter about the Aaron Campbell shooting, released yesterday. He wants to review police interactions with people in mental health crisis, and specifically, wants to ask city council for money in the spring budget to fund mental health workers to respond to mental health crisis calls […]
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Mercury Excluded From Cops’ Press Conference?
Police Chief Rosie Sizer and Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman gave a press conference today about the shooting death of Aaron Campbell. The Mercury received no notice whatsoever, even though we’re on the cops’ email blast list. I’ve got an email in to police spokeswoman Mary Wheat, and Saltzman’s chief of staff, Brendan Finn, asking if […]
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County Chair Wheeler At City Club: “No crisis has focused my administration more than the death of James Chasse.”
Following hot on the heels of a surprisingly disengaged and disappointing speech by Mayor Sam Adams last week, Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler began a remarkable “State of the County” speech this afternoon with a Lincoln quote about adaptation to difficult circumstances: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present,” he […]
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BREAKING: Campbell Cop Frashour Has A History: Chief Sizer Testified Against Him In Trigger-Happy Lawsuit Last Year
It turns out that Police Chief Rosie Sizer testified against Officer Ronald Frashour, the officer who shot Aaron Campbell, in a separate “trigger-happy” lawsuit last year. Update, 7:11pm This story was referenced in Oregonian reporting later today. Original post: Frashour was one of the officers who Tasered Keith Waterhouse—who was video-taping police on the property […]