Tasers are supposed to be less-lethal weapons, but are cops using them increasingly as compliance tools?
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Independent videographer Joe Anybody is suing the City of Portland for just $100 in damages, hoping the lawsuit will challenge the cops’ policy regarding people who video their actions. Anybody, whose real name is Mike Tabor, had his camcorder confiscated by cops in March, after he recorded an arrest [“Big Brother’s Little Brother,” News, April […]
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Where He/She Belongs
Bigendered Person Wins Claims Against Portland Women’s Shelters
LEE/LISA IACUZZI and his/her three-legged dog, Rowdy, aren’t interested in fitting in. A bigendered person who was born a woman but now identifies as a “he” and a “she” simultaneously, Iacuzzi has won two gender discrimination claims against different Portland women’s shelters in the last six months. And Iacuzzi isn’t stopping there. Now, in a […]
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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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Portland’s anti-war “Raging Grannies” had the case against them dismissed in court on Monday, June 9, after prosecutors were too unorganized to get cops to show up on the right day. Sara Graham and Bonnie Tinker were arrested at last year’s Rose Parade for sitting down in front of a tank. At first they were […]