From KGW, January 10, 2010 Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard believes the city’s police chief has too much power to obstruct independent investigations of officers. He wants to make it a crime for Chief Rosie Sizer to interfere with the ability of the city’s Independent Police Review director to probe police behavior “just as it […]
From The Oregonian, November 20, 2009 Portland police Officer Christopher Humphreys filed a stress-related disability claim as the Portland Police Bureau began an internal investigation into his Saturday night beanbag shotgun shooting of a 12-year-old girl on a Northeast Portland MAX platform. The move is consistent with a long-standing pattern of Portland police officers taking […]
From The Oregonian, November 19, 2009 Portland Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman overruled the police chief for the second time in recent months, ordering Officer Chris Humphreys be placed on paid leave as police investigate his firing of a beanbag shotgun at a 12-year-old girl. The encounter was caught on TriMet videotape at 10:47 p.m. Saturday, […]
From KPTV.com, November 19 2009 Officer Shot Beanbag Gun At Girl Who Was Resisting Arrest A Portland police officer who was criticized for his role in the death of a mentally ill man was put on administrative leave following an investigation into his use of force against a 12-year-old girl last weekend, the police chief […]
From KGW.com, November 19, 2009 A Portland Police officer investigated in the death of James Chasse has been placed on administrative leave after shooting a 12-year-old girl in the thigh with a beanbag gun during an incident at a MAX stop Saturday night. Officer Christopher Humphrey shot the girl with a beanbag gun after she […]
From the Portland Mercury, November 19, 2009 Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman has overruled Police Chief Rosie Sizer and ordered the suspension of Portland Police Officer Christopher Humphreys, after he shot a 12-year-old girl in the leg with a “less-lethal” beanbag round on Saturday night. The action has outraged the Portland Police Association, whose president, Scott […]
From Willamette Week, November 19, 2009 Portland Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman has directed that Police Officer Christopher Humphreys be placed on administrative leave while investigators look into Humphreys firing a beanbag round at the thigh of a 12-year-old girl at close range. In this release (PDF), police say Humphreys —who also was involved in the […]
From KATU.com, November 19, 2009 A Portland police officer involved in the death of James Chasse while he was in police custody has been suspended by police Chief Rosie Sizer for an incident this past weekend, she announced at a news conference today. Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman directed that Officer Chris Humphreys be placed on […]
Guest opinion by Jason Renaud, from the Oregonian, November 13, 2009 Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman‘s decision to give two weeks of unpaid leave to two of the three officers involved in the violent arrest and subsequent death of James Chasse makes a mockery of justice. Saltzman’s actions won’t make anyone who looks strange to police […]
Republished as a guest opinion in The Oregonian, November 13, 2009 Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman‘s decision on November 4 to give two weeks unpaid leave to the two of the three officers who beat James Chasse and then stood by while he died makes a mockery of justice. His actions don’t make us any safer, […]
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