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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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 […]
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How Do You Eat Yours?
Remember these? I AM CHRIS HUMPHREYS: T-SHIRT FROM COP UNION RALLY LAST NOVEMBER Well, courtesy of artist Marc Moscato, now there are these… MOSCATO AT NW 13TH AND EVERETT, IN ONE OF HIS T-SHIRTS Order yours at marcmoscato.com.
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Grand Jury In Campbell Death: “Portland deserves better. Aaron Campbell deserved better.”
The grand jury in the death of Aaron Campbell has written a letter to District Attorney Mike Schrunk outlining problems with the police approach to the incident. It concludes: “Portland deserves better. Aaron Campbell deserved better.” Download a copy of the letter here. The letter says that while the Grand Jury felt they could not […]
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Grand Jury Does Not Indict Campbell Officers
The Grand Jury in the officer-involved shooting of Aaron Campbell has failed to indict the officers for a crime in Campbell’s death. Grand Juries are seven-strong citizen panels that convene to decide whether the District Attorney should prosecute. Did DA Mike Schrunk expect such a verdict? “You never know,” he says. “They’re randomnly drawn, good […]
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Sisters Mgr “Doesn’t Feel Safe” With Kruger
I’m not sure if it’s possible for an employee at a non-violent nonprofit to “smack down” an alleged Nazi police officer, but a Sisters of the Road Manager certainly passive-aggressively “loved down” said alleged Nazi police officer yesterday afternoon. Sisters and Portland Police were meeting at the Old Town University of Oregon building to discuss […]
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“Basically, we shot an unarmed black guy running away from us.”
Says Scott Westerman, head of the Portland Police Association, in the Oregonian. Dude just HIRED a public relations firm, too. Having said that, Westerman also said something remarkably smart: “No one should ever forget this,” Westerman said: “The citizens of Portland and the state of Oregon are the ones who give police officers the legal […]
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Campbell’s Death: Our Fault, Not The Cops’ (At Least, In Part)
I had a good time on KBOO this morning with Talk Radio host Lisa Loving—discussing local media and police accountability here in Portland. Why not download the 57 minute show this evening, if you need to cure your insomnia? KBOO: THEY’VE GOT A NICE LOGO…AND YOU CAN TALK AT LENGTH WITHOUT INTERRUPTION, OR LISTENERS, PRESUMABLY […]
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New Details in Police Shooting of Suicidal Man: Gun Near Front Door, but not on Man.
The police released more details today about the incident that led to the Portland police shooting of a man last Friday night. Over the weekend, the police issued a limited report on the incident, saying an officer fired one shot into the man, Aaron Campbell, “in response to perceived threatening actions” and that “the actions […]
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Ambulance Company Settles in Chasse Lawsuit
The Oregonian broke the news late last night that the ambulance company that arrived on the scene of James Chasse’s arrest in 2006 has settled its part in a federal wrongful-death lawsuit. According to reporter Maxine Bernstein’s story, the company will pay around $600,000 to Chasse’s family. That leaves the City of Portland and the […]
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For Those Doubting Doubters Who Didn’t Believe Me
Omigod! Omigod! Since you are craving more after just a sweet taste, here is the whole glorious thing. HUGE hat tip to Blogtown reader Kyle Burris. Kyle, you have made my 2010. Parts 2 and 3 after the jump.