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Twenty people with a mental illness have been killed by the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) in the past decade. The first, Aaron Campbell, was depressed and contemplating thoughts of suicide when he was shot in the back by an officer outside his apartment complex. The latest, Koben Henriksen, was homeless with an untreated mental illness when he was gunned down by police near Mall 205. It was this same decade that the US Department of...

The crowd reached downtown just before midnight on May 29, 2020, moving as a buzzing mass of energy and outrage through North Portland and across the Willamette River. When the hundreds of marchers turned down SW Main from 4th Ave. toward the Multnomah County Justice Center, where a few dozen protesters waited to meet them, the night air turned electric with potential. “Say his name!” yelled a woman through a bullhorn. “George Floyd!” the marchers...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Detective Erik Kammerer Is Investigating a Police Shooting While Being Investigated for His Own Use of Force City officials won’t formally confirm Kammerer’s identity, and he continues to perform his other duties. TWO JOBS: Detective Erik Kammerer, shown here policing a Portland protest, also investigates homicides. (Doug Brown) Updated December 17, 2020 A Portland police officer under investigation for allegedly using ...