Incidents of the use of overwhelming force by law enforcement including physical violence and firearms
By OPB.org – May 21, 2024 The recent court filings revolve around different interpretations of Oregon’s relatively new laws governing police use of deadly force Attorneys for the city of Portland have asked a Multnomah County judge to overrule a jury’s roughly $1 million negligence verdict after a Portland officer shot and killed a man […]
Pierce Brooks was retired as Chief of Police in Eugene when Nathan Thomas and Bryan French were both killed by Portland Police in January 1992. Brooks was hired by the City of Portland to provide a report on the incident. Nathan Thomas was twelve. Bryan French crept into his home and held Nathan hostage. Police […]
From APNews.com, September 1, 2022 One summer night, Misty Castillo stepped out of her house in Salem, Oregon, called 911 and asked for the police, saying her son was mentally ill, was assaulting her and her husband and had a knife. “He’s drunk and he’s high and he’s mentally ill,” Castillo told the emergency dispatcher, […]
Oregonian, July 27 2022 The City of Tigard will pay $3.8 million to the mother of 26-year-old Jacob Macduff, who was fatally shot by Tigard police while experiencing a mental health crisis outside of his apartment complex in January 2021. As part of the July 2022 wrongful death settlement agreement, the city agreed to undergo […]
Basic Facts – Nick Rodin, 35, was shot and killed by a Crook County Sheriff’s Deputy Steven Hatcher on February 4, 2022 outside of Prineville. Rodin was unarmed and speaking with a friend by cell phone, which was recorded. Body worn camera footage was recorded. The investigator found no evidence that Rodin was a danger […]
Supporters of the Mental Health Association of Portland are deeply disappointed in a Multnomah County Grand Jury’s failure to indict Portland police officer Zachary DeLong, who shot and killed Robert Delgado when he was in a mental health crisis on April 16. This decision shows that our community remains unable to hold Portland’s police officers […]
From The Oregonian, July 15, 2021 Body-worn cameras for all Portland police officers. A qualified civilian supervisor to lead the police training division. Identifying and holding accountable police lieutenants and above who didn’t provide adequate justification for approving uses of force by Rapid Response Team members during Portland’s past year of racial justice protests. Hiring […]
Below are a list of all persons shot and killed, shot and wounded, shot at and not killed, and killed by a conducted electrical weapon (CEW), also known as a Taser, in Oregon, in 2020, by state certified law enforcement. No officers received discipline for any of these incidents from their employers. No county district […]
Published in Street Roots, October 2020 Since Aaron Campbell’s death, at least 20 people with mental health or substance problems have been killed by Portland police. Say their names. Members of the Mental Health Alliance will vote YES on Portland City Ballot Measure 26-217 to form a new and empowered police review board and bring […]
Eds Note: This post is a little far afield for our archive but at a time where our city’s police are using undue and deadly force against relatively peaceful demonstrators everyday, serious proposals directly addressing systemic racism from within authoritarian organizations are particularly interesting. And we had a hard time finding this document online. READ […]
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