From the Oregonian, November 10, 2007. Not available elsewhere online. Leo Besner, the Portland police officer at the center of a $500,000 city settlement with the family of a man he shot in 2005, was involved in another shooting six years earlier. When the settlement was announced Thursday, Robert J. King, the president of the […]
From the Portland Mercury, November 26, 2006 The official police investigative reports into the in-custody death of James Philip Chasse Jr. on September 17 appear to have ignored—or at least heavily re-interpreted—the direct testimony of several independent witnesses. The police investigation found that Chasse was killed because Officer Christopher Humphreys “accidentally fell” on him, as […]
From the Portland Mercury, November 16, 2006 The official police investigative reports into the in-custody death of James Philip Chasse Jr. on September 17 appear to have ignored—or at least heavily re-interpreted—the direct testimony of several independent witnesses. The police investigation found that Chasse was killed because Officer Christopher Humphreys “accidentally fell” on him, as […]
From the Willamette Week, November 14th, 2006 None of six civilian witnesses to the police takedown of James Chasse Jr. agreed with the Portland Police Bureau’s official story that the mentally ill man was pushed—rather than tackled—to the ground during his fatal encounter with cops on Sept. 17. Police issued a “fact sheet” a month […]
From Willamette Week, November 14, 2006 None of six civilian witnesses to the police takedown of James Chasse Jr. agreed with the Portland Police Bureau’s official story that the mentally ill man was pushed—rather than tackled—to the ground during his fatal encounter with cops on Sept. 17. Police issued a “fact sheet” a month after […]
From The Oregonian, November 10, 2006 When a Project Respond mental health worker and a Portland officer came to check on James P. Chasse Jr. on Sept. 15, Chasse came out of his apartment, spotted the uniformed officer and repeatedly chanted, “Don’t hurt me,” before he ran out of the building. Project Respond, an agency […]
From the Associated Press, November 10, 2006 Two days before James Chasse died, a mental health worker asked a Portland police officer to put him in the department’s data base as a patient and to call her agency if he was found. Medics and police check on a man who later died in police custody. […]
From the Portland Mercury, November 9, 2006 A Portland Police Officer told a bystander who witnessed the arrest of James Phillip Chasse on September 17 that Chasse had “14 former convictions for crack cocaine,” and how he and his colleagues “found a vial of crack cocaine on him” that night. This is according to the […]
From The Oregonian, November 24, 2005. Not available elsewhere online. “You’re not in trouble. We want you to get help. That’s why we’re here.” — Hostage negotiator Rae Klein, trying to persuade Raymond Gwerder to put down his gun shortly before he was shot Several Multnomah County grand jurors who reviewed the police fatal shooting […]
From The Oregonian, Wednesday, May 7, 2003. This is the first Oregonian news story about the killing of Kendra James. More than 36 hours after Portland Officer Scott McCollister shot and killed a 21-year-old woman who was attempting to drive away from a traffic stop, Portland police said Tuesday they did not know why he […]
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