The OIR Group’s conclusion that police should not act as automatic suicide dispensers is exactly what the Mental Health Association of Portland has been saying for years (see, for example, our op-ed on the killing of Brad Morgan – the same case cited in the report – “Portland police and another tragic death,” Feb. 8, […]
OPB News, April 3, 2015 Portland has a new police oversight group, the Community Oversight Advisory Board. It’s made up of five police officers and 15 citizen volunteers, including people living with disabilities and mental illnesses. The group is part of a legal settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, which had found a pattern of […]
KOIN.com, March 6, 2015 A jury has ruled that two Portland police officers did not act negligently before fatally shooting a suicidal man atop a downtown parking garage in January 2012. The Oregonian reports jurors deliberated for nearly three hours before making the decision Thursday. An attorney for the parents of Brad Morgan said the […]
From The Portland Mercury, Jan. 2, 2014 City Hall is ringing in the new year with a $3 million lawsuit over a police shooting. Randy Morgan has filed a wrongful death suit against the city of Portland over the death of his son, Brad Morgan, on January 25, 2012. Morgan, distraught and suicidal, was atop […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, December 30, 2013 It seemed the perfect setup for a tragedy. But Thursday’s police encounter with a man atop a parking garage — naked, in crisis, threatening to jump, holding a knife he was using on himself – ended without police firing a single round. Instead, officers used […]
From the Oregonian, July 30, 2012 “Get off the property,” Jeffery David Anderson told his wife, Susan. Moments later, he fired his .22-caliber rifle toward the sky. Then again. Susan Anderson was familiar with her husband’s erratic behavior. She had moved in with a friend for a few days after arguing with him, but, needing […]
By James Mazzocco, on BlueOregon.com It was January 25, and Brad Morgan wanted to die. Maybe it was earlier. He had problems. A day, a week, or a month before — nobody can know for sure. All the same, Brad Morgan knew it was time. A tragic event has the power to cause us to […]
By Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, Thursday, March 1, 2012 The day before he threatened to jump off a downtown parking garage early the morning of January 25, later to be shot dead by police, Bradley Morgan was alternately distraught, calm, and methodical. He was wrecked over a recent breakup with his longtime girlfriend, the […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Wednesday, February 29, 2012 The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office this afternoon released the transcripts from the grand jury review of the Jan. 25 Portland police officer-involved fatal shooting of Brad Lee Morgan. Morgan, 21, died of a single gunshot wound to the head. The jury found no criminal wrongdoing […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 A Multnomah County grand jury has found no criminal wrongdoing by Portland police in their Jan. 25 fatal shooting of 21-year-old Brad Lee Morgan atop a downtown parking garage. The grand jury issued its ruling this afternoon after it began hearing testimony on Monday. Fifteen witnesses […]
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