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Night Light Fight

Police Taser Cyclist, Sparking Outrage

WHAT BEGAN the night of June 10 as a traffic stop for a missing bike light ended in Tasering—and a cyclist’s screams, heard a block away. As Portland Police Bureau Officers Erin Smith and Ron Hoesly were writing out a missing bike light ticket to Diana Spartis on SE 7th and Alder, the police noticed […]

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Crashing Halt

BTA Pushes for Punishment of Witless Drivers

THIS WEEK marks the one-year anniversary of the day a car hit bicyclist Tim O’Donnell on a rural Washington County road. The car’s driver was not only uninsured, but also her Oregon license had been suspended and she’d traveled to Idaho and surreptitiously obtained a new one. Before her fatal crash with O’Donnell, the driver […]

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