Four charged with felonies during violent protests
Police have declared riots three time and unlawful assemblies twice over the past week.
Felony charges have now been filed against four people arrested during two of the series of violent protests over the past week.
The most recent arrests were made on the night of Monday, April 19, when a crowd vandalized numerous business and the nonprofit Blazers Boys and Girls Club in Northeast Portland.
According to police, Emily Keppler, 27, was arrested for felony criminal mischief. Emma Lightstone, 27, arrested for felony riot and felony criminal mischief.
Before that, the Multnomah County District Attorney s Office announced it had charged Theodore Matthee-O Brien, 22, and Cameron Millar-Griffin, 24, with one count each of felony riot and criminal mischief. Both were arrested during a downtown riot that damaged numerous businesses, the Oregon Historical Society and the First Christian Church that feeds the homeless on Frida
Portland police ID officer, man fatally shot in Lents Parks April 17 2021
Eight-year veteran Officer Zacary Delong is on administrative leave after killing a Robert Delgado, who was reported to have been pointing a gun.
The Portland police officer who killed a man reportedly carrying a replica firearm in Lents Park on Friday, April 16, has been identified.
He is Officer Zachary Delong, an eight-year veteran of the Portland Police Bureau assigned to East Precinct. Delong remains on administrative leave during the investigation into the shooting as per bureau policy.
On Saturday, police also ID d the man who was fatally shot by police as 46-year-old Robert Douglas Delgado.
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Portland police disperse crowd with pepper spray following fatal officer-involved shooting
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Police in Portland, Oregon, say they used pepper spray and smoke canisters to break up a crowd that gathered on Friday as they investigated the fatal shooting of a suspect by police in Lents Park.
A suspect who has only been described as a white male was fatally shot in the morning by an officer responding to a report that a man was pointing a gun in the park, the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) said in a news release.
The PPB says lethal force was used after “less lethal” rounds were attempted, the news release said. Officers provided emergency medical aid, but the male subject was pronounced deceased at the scene.
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