Last month, the St. Johns’ Smoke Buddy pot cart caught headlines with its loophole-exploiting scheme: Selling containers, then “giving away” pot to fill them. The cops admitted at the time they had no interest in paying the cart a visit, so long as its owners weren’t toting around more than an ounce of cannabis, the […]
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Police in North Dakota are Getting Weaponized Drones
Big Brother is Tazer-ing you Gun lobbyists in North Dakota successfully pushed a bill through the legislature making it legal for cops to affix “non-lethal” weapons to drones. Yes, that’s right, according to this Daily Beast article, if you go to North Dakota, you can now be hit with everything from beanbag rounds, to pepper […]
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Drive Like A Jerk, Get A Ticket—An Excellent New Concept
Crazy stupid high-speed pass on SE 34th Ave – extended version from T.Lavender on Vimeo. See that video? It was making the rounds earlier this summer because of an incident at the one-minute mark. You’ll see a driver in a Kia Soul speed past the cyclist who was filming (and had his child with him), […]
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Don’t Shoot PDX Concert: Janelle Monae + Wondaland Performing Today in Portland’s Dawson Park
Janelle Monae and Wondaland Multi-Grammy nominee Janelle Monae is performing today at a FREE concert in Dawson Park (on Williams Ave.) in Portland. Monae and Wondaland will join Don’t Shoot PDX from 1 to 4 pm at a community rally, called “Say Her Name, Say His Name,” to commemorate the death of Mike Brown in […]
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Portland’s Police Reform Watchdogs Still Haven’t Found a Suitable Office—And That Might Push Them Over Budget
The Commonwealth Building It’s looking more and more like Portland’s unique, fragile system for watchdogging federally mandated police reforms could creep past the constraints of its budget. One main reason: The team that’s helping oversee those reforms still hasn’t found a suitable place to work, nine months after winning the job. As the Mercury reported […]
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The Fennica Has Broken Free of Portland, But Not Before So Much Amazing #ShellNoPDX Chaos
7:26 pm: One last thing we need to do: Wrap up the mystery of how the 13 hanging protestors came to descend to the Willamette, which was very hard to get a read on from below. The Portland Fire Bureau’s Lt. Rich Tyler explained the bureau’s special rope rescue team set up its own system […]
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Cops Say Man Was Trying to Burglarize a Police Outpost Prior to Attacking an Officer
David James Ellis Portland cops say the man who stabbed a Portland police officer before being shot Sunday morning was lingering near one of the bureau’s community policing outposts, prompting officers to attempt to stop him. In what’s likely the bureau’s final release about the incident pending investigation, cops say two Portland police officers—Jose Jimenez […]
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A Cop Was Stabbed in the Second Officer-Involved Shooting in a Week
A Portland police officer was stabbed early this morning in East Portland. His unidentified attacker was shot. Both are expected to survive. As is the rule with these things, details are in short supply. The Portland Police Bureau says officers “contacted” a man at NE 110th and Sandy, at roughly 1:41 am, and almost immediately […]
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UPDATED: Police Say Man Killed Sunday Night Brandished a “Starter Pistol”
Google WinCo Foods on NE 122nd Last night, two East Precinct police officers pulled up to a man parked at the WinCo Foods on NE 122nd. All we know at this point is that shots were fired shortly after, and that Portland’s now seen its second fatal officer-involved shooting of 2015. Update 3:55 pm: Police […]
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The Police Made a Twee Visual Aid Re: Legal Weed
Ugh. Fine, Portland Police Bureau, we’ll bite. Here’s the cops’ cutesy reminder of how much pot you’re allowed to possess beginning Wednesday (not that there are very many legal avenues for you to actually acquire that pot). They took a bunch of weed and posed it next to a Voodoo Donut voodoo donut!!! Gotta say, […]
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Man Shot by Police Indicted by Grand Jury
Michael Shawn Harrison A Portland man shot by police last month has been indicted by a Multnomah Grand Jury on multiple charges, according to a news release. Michael Shawn Harrison, 48, is charged with two counts of menacing and one count each of first-degree burglary and unlawful use of a weapon. READ THE REST AFTER […]
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Westward Ho! Now Portland’s Police Reform Oversight Team is Setting Up Shop Downtown
Another Believer (Wikimedia) A long way from Rosewood. The team of experts and advocates responsible for keeping an eye on Portland’s federally-mandated police reforms keeps moving westward. First, the excessively titled Compliance Officer/Community Liaison (COCL) team planned to set up offices at the Rosewood Initiative, a community center at SE 160th and Stark. The thinking […]