I’ve just spoken with a clerk at Federal Courthouse who says an order of dismissal was entered in the Chasse case yesterday. That means that attorneys for both sides have told the court they have reached a settlement, and that they have 60 days to “consummate” the settlement. The next step will be for city […]
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Boy Scouts Must Pay Sex Abuse Victim $18.5 Million
Late breaking Friday afternoon news, everyone! The jury has returned an astounding verdict in the case of the former Oregon scout who was sexually abused by his scout master, Timur Dykes, multiple times after Dykes confessed to leadership that he was a pedophile. Victim Kerry Lewis, right, and his lawyer in court two weeks ago. […]
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Bad Apple Humphreys: State Drops Case
The District Attorney’s office has dropped charges against Lisa Coppock, a woman with mental health problems who is alleging she was beaten up while being arrested by Officer Christopher Humphreys—the cop at the heart of the beanbag girl incident and the death of James Chasse. ILLUSTRATION BY BRETT SUPERSTAR HUMPHREYS: BAD APPLE REPUTATION “It’s been […]
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Campbell Shooting: Details Of Sgt.Reyna’s Discrimination Suit You Didn’t Read in the Oregonian
The Mercury spent several hours yesterday rooting through the case files from the discrimination suit filed by Sergeant Liani Reyna—the supervisor on scene at the Aaron Campbell shooting—against the police bureau’s Special Emergency Response Team (SERT team). Officers are asking whether Reyna didn’t call SERT to the scene on January 29 because she may have […]
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Beanbag Girl Sets Bedroom On Fire
Credit where it’s due to WW reporter James Pitkin for this scoop: Beanbag girl was re-arrested last night after setting her bedroom on fire while watching TV footage of her sentencing yesterday afternoon. You go, beanbag girl! Or at least, I understand why she did it. Listening to the trial proceedings yesterday I was struck […]
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BREAKING: Beanbag Girl Guilty
Judge Paula Kurshner has this afternoon found a 13-year-old girl “within the jurisdiction of the court”—that’s juvenile court language for “guilty”—of interfering with public transportation, resisting arrest, and assaulting a public safety officer in a trial at Multnomah County juvenile court. In the end, the case came down to the word of Officer Aaron Dauchy […]
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Beanbag Girl’s Mother: “She Doesn’t Like To Be Touched.”
I’m in Juvenile Court at NE 68th and Halsey for the resumption of the trial of the girl involved in Officer Chris Humphreys’ use of a beanbag shotgun last November. ILLUSTRATION BY JESSE REKLAW The girl, whom the Mercury is not naming because of her age, is on medication to assist with anxiety, anger and […]
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BREAKING: Officer Humphreys Vs. Beanbag Girl In Court
Officer Christopher Humphreys and Officer Aaron Dauchy are both expected to be called to the stand this afternoon to testify against the 12-year-old girl whom Officer Humphreys shot with a beanbag shotgun late last year. Humphreys was suspended over the incident, prompting 650 police union members to rally in his defense, wearing t-shirts reading “I […]
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BREAKING: Campbell Shooting’s Missing Sergeant—Why Wasn’t SERT Team Called?
Documents reveal intriguing theory on what may have gone wrong in Aaron Campbell case.
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BREAKING: Chasse Case Will Be Tried In Portland
A Federal Court Judge has this afternoon ruled against the city, which had asked for the case related to the 2006 death in custody of James Chasse to be tried outside Portland. The city had cited media articles about the case as evidence that a fair jury could not be found in Portland, and today […]
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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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City Wants Chasse Case Moved To Idaho
God bless the City of Portland. Attorneys are blaming the continuing media coverage of the death of James Chasse for so biasing its field of potential jurors that the case needs to be moved out of state. The move would be amusing were it not part of the city’s continued refusal to acknowledge responsibility for […]