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, […]
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 […]
Statesman Journal, May 20, 2014 A Salem police officer was justified in shooting and killing a man armed with a knife last month, according to a Marion County grand jury’s findings, which were announced Monday afternoon. READ – Links to all prior news coverage of Michael Conley’s shooting Officer David Baker shot Michael Conley, 46, […]
By David Sarasohn, The Oregonian, March 8, 2013 In the most recent fatal shooting by Portland police, of an attacker who reportedly fired a shotgun at two policemen on a parking structure roof, two uncontrolled streams run together. The death of mentally ill people at the hands of police — sometimes called “suicide by cop” […]
From the Portland Mercury, March 6, 2013 A Multnomah County grand jury has found no criminal wrongdoing in the February 17 police shooting of Merle Mikal Hatch, a patient killed outside Portland Adventist Medical Center after goading and taunting officers and then running at them while holding a broken black phone handset. READ – Earlier […]
By the Associated Press, on King5.com Seattle, March 6, 2013 A man fatally wounded by Portland police after they say he fired at them was an Iraq war veteran who had talked about the challenges of post-traumatic stress disorder. Santiago A. Cisneros III, 32, died of the wounds he received Monday night, the Multnomah County […]
From the Portland Mercury, February 27, 2013 Merle Mikal Hatch was holding a busted, stolen black telephone handset—eight inches long and two inches wide—when he ran at a pack of Portland cops he’d been swearing at and goading from 80 yards away. He clearly wasn’t in his right mind. And he didn’t have a gun. […]
By Tom Moroney and Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Dec. 27, 2012 Hit squads from the Mexican mafia. Gangs of painkiller-thieving youths. The government. They were coming, always coming. From around the corner or down the street, he couldn’t know where. Michael Mahoney, 36, had a hard life, spending months in juvenile detention centers and six […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Friday, February 17, 2012 UPDATE: Man in custody at 4:58 p.m. on NE Liberty – after throwing knives down on sidewalk. Earlier: Portland Police officers are attempting to talk with a man who is armed with knives and has said he wants to commit “suicide by cop,” according to police. […]
Portland Police Chief Mike Reese presented a report to the Downtown Public Safety Action Committee on Feb. 14th, defending his bureau’s record in dealing with suicidal people. So far, there are seven stories in the local media, included in full in this post – use the following Links to go to each section. The Oregonian: […]
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