An attorney who fined a cop $35 for parking illegally back in July has issued another citation to the same cop, for the same reason. Eric Bryant’s story went as far as CNN over the summer, when he used an obscure Oregon law that allows one citizen to give another citizen a parking ticket, to […]
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City Offers To Re-Train Cops On Videoing Arrests
Good news for police oversight activists: The city of Portland has offered to re-train its police officers on the video-recording of officer interactions with the public, following a controversial incident in April when a citizen journalist had his camera confiscated by an officer and was issued with a citation. Back in April, we ran a […]
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Jury Fails To Convict In Alleged Rent-A-Cop Assault
Update, 3:03pm: Parks Security Manager Mark Warrington says he meets with PPI boss John Hren on a bi-weekly basis, and that Hren informed him of the incident when it took place, as they did at the end of September this year, when a PPI officer was punched repeatedly by a transient. KGW ran this story, […]
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James Chasse, Circa 1982.
Before he fell victim to schizophrenia, and ultimately, death in police custody. These photos were just developed yesterday by his childhood friend, Steve Doughton, who shot them on a Rolleiflex camera and never got the shots developed. It’s an honor to post them on Blogtown. And there are, like, 20 more.
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Take That, Homophobes!
This morning, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the anti-gay activists who’ve been whining that the state unfairly tossed out signatures from their initiative petition, which–had they collected enough valid signatures–would have put the new domestic partnership law on hold until the voters had a chance to weigh in this November. The court […]
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Domestic Partnership Appeal at Pioneer Courthouse
We’re about thirty minutes away from the 20-minute arguments on either side of the federal appeal over signatures to put a domestic partnership referendum on the fall ballot. Austin Nimocks, attorney for the anti-gay coalition, is sitting in a wing-back chair here in the wifi-equipped courtroom annex, scribbling in his notes. I’d love to snap […]
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Domestic Partnership Petition Case in Court Again Tomorrow
Back story: Anti-gay activists tried to collect enough signatures to send Oregon’s new domestic partnership law to this November’s ballot. They failed, and then sued in federal court, blaming Oregon’s elections department for improperly discounting valid signatures. In February, a federal judge told the anti-gay activist to piss off ruled that the petition effort fell […]