By Jason Renaud and Jenny Westberg This article appeared in Oregon Trial Lawyer magazine, Summer 2011 The most discriminated against class of persons – in any place, at any time, within any society – are persons with an active mental illness. Race, religion, class – any and all of these biases are there as well, […]
From Mother Jones, June 10, 2011 On September 17, 2006, Portland police officers saw a man behaving abnormally in the city’s trendy Pearl district. The man was James Chasse, a 42-year-old with schizophrenia. Three officers, who thought the Chasse might be a junkie or was urinating on the street, pursued him. Upon catching up with […]
From the Willamette Week, January 5, 2011 On Nov. 30, defense attorney Chris O’Connor met with members of the city’s police Citizen Review Committee to push for a simple step he says would increase cops’ accountability and help the public understand why they use force on duty. He has yet to get a response. And […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner On Dec. 27, Portland police shot Marcus Lagozzino, 34, critically injuring him, in the sixth officer-involved shooting of 2010. Within a week, 2011 started with another officer-involved shooting – then another. At 1:37 a.m. on Jan. 1, police arrested a man at Club 915 in downtown Portland. While […]
From the Oregonian, December 30, 2010 A Multnomah County grand jury today found no criminal wrongdoing by Portland police Officers Jonathan D. Kizzar or Kelly Jenson in the fatal shooting Dec. 17 of 45-year-old Darryel Dwayne Ferguson. The transcripts of the testimony may be released late next week. Ferguson was shot as he emerged from […]
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