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On July 15, what initially began as a call of menacing with an armed weapon escalated to the Eugene Police Department blocking parts of 11th Avenue and Jefferson Street in the Jefferson-Washington neighborhood.  At 9:15 am, Eugene police responded to a call of someone menacing with an armed weapon, EPD spokesperson Melinda McLaughlin tells Eugene Weekly.  At 1 pm, police were trying to contact him, McLaughlin says.  At the 1100 block of Jefferson, EPD had several police officers present, Eugene-Springfield Fire Department officials, a drone flying overhead and a BearCat.  At 2:27 pm, man...

Photo courtesy of the Kenny Family On the second anniversary of the killing of Stacy Kenny by Springfield Police Department (SPD) officer, Kenny’s family released an independent review of police protocols. The report by the California-based OIR Group calls for systemic change in SPD’s policies, as well as 33 reform recommendations.  The report comes during a chaotic period for SPD.  Last week, the city released an independent review of SPD’s response to the July 29 Thurston protest, which found that the police department made errors in handling the event. Days ago, SPD Chief Rick Lewi...

Guest View: On the contrary, Eugene is no Ferguson Jack Radey, Register-Guard © Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner. The Eugene Police Department should not be confused with the departments in Minneapolis, Ferguson, Oakland, New York or Chicago.  We have a department that needs constant monitoring and oversight, but is ahead of most departments in the country in terms of every reform we might want. But it is important to study what it does, not make demands based on the situation in some other city, bad as these may be.  This information is...

Selwyn Jones chats virtually with Stephanie Babb George Floyd’s uncle, Selwyn Jones, will have a virtual conversation about the Black Lives Matter movement on Dec. 20 with local police brutality activist Stephanie Babb. Her brother, Brian Babb, was killed by Eugene police in March 2015. Jones turned to activism after Minneapolis police killed his nephew earlier this year — a horror that sparked a civil rights awakening across the country. Babb’s own activism began when the Eugene Police Department shot her brother after he called his therapist for help. A former professional athlete, Jo...

Past ten years alone. >> president obama and a race against time to resettle a staggering number of refugees before he leaves office at the jaw dropping rate of 290 per day. as of october 1st nearly 3500 of the refugees came from syria. the most shocking number of all the u.s. state department reports and completes background information for more than 26 percent of those syrian refugees being ushered through our borders. >> that brings us to look who is talking. brian babb bought is calling for extension of the controversial refugee celtment program. it is slamming him for making trump's trans...