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Members of the Proud Boys shake hands during a August 2019 rally in Portland. Karen Ducey / Getty Images By now, you may have heard: The Proud Boys, a national far-right organization rooted in white nationalism and male chauvinism, is visiting Portland this weekend. The group has planned a noon rally at Delta Park, where […]

Mathieu Lewis-Rolland According to the Portland Police Bureau’s (PPB) calculations, the ongoing protests that have called for cuts to the bureau’s budget will contribute to PPB going over its approved annual budget by at least $1.5 million. PPB outlined this prediction in a memo to the City Budget Office in preparation for the city’s upcoming […]

Mayor Wheeler, shortly after being tear gassed by federal police. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland It’s been more than one hundred days since Portlanders first asked Mayor Ted Wheeler to stop his police officers from coating crowds of protesters in CS gas—a commonly used tear gas. Now, after hundreds of Portlanders have experienced the debilitating effects of the […]

Lane Martin. Martin family . Portland City Council approved a $975,000 settlement deal Wednesday with the family of Lane Martin, a man fatally shot by Portland police during a mental health crisis. Martin, a 31-year-old art student at Portland State University (PSU), was killed by Gary Doran, an officer with the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), […]

A Portland police officer pulls out a knife to cut a truck’s tires during a August 15 protest. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland On August 5, street medic Davis Beeman was using his truck to block other vehicles from driving into a crowd of protesters—a practice known as “corking”—when Portland police declared the gathering a riot. As officers […]

Marek Jarocki was arrested by federal police on July 25, after being caught in a cloud of tear gas. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland When Tetra thinks back to the night he was kidnapped by federal police in downtown Portland, he can’t help but laugh. “It was such a mess,” said Tetra, 24, who asked the Mercury to […]

A Portland police officers carrying a “less lethal” weapon during a July protest. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland In the early hours of July 25, Mac Smiff was standing in Lownsdale Square, tweeting a photo of the protests, when he was shot in the head with a “less lethal” indelible paintball fired by a federal officer. “I felt […]

Jami Resch Portland Police Bureau Former Portland Police Chief Jami Resch has been appointed to the bureau’s executive team by Chief Chuck Lovell—two months after Lovell replaced Resch as the bureau’s leader. Resch will serve as Assistant Chief of Investigations, one of three assistant chiefs who work under Lovell. Resch, who’s worked for PPB since […]

mathieu Lewis Rolland One hundred Oregon State Police (OSP) officers are currently en route to Portland to replace the speciality federal officers who’ve been aggressively guarding the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse. Yet, while the city’s top officials deem this transition a “victory,” they still appear unclear about how it’s going to work. At consecutive […]

Federal officers in downtown Portland on July 28. Mathieu Lewis Rolland Gov. Kate Brown announced Wednesday morning that, following conversations between her and Mike Pence, the federal government will begin withdrawing some of its troops from Portland on Thursday. According to Brown’s statement, officers from the Oregon State Police (OSP) will step in to police […]