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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 US Department of Justice has declared that, indeed, the Portland Police Bureau has engaged in "a pattern or practice" of violating the constitutional rights of mentally ill Portlanders through the use of excessive force. And at a news conference this morning, both federal and city officials stood together and promised a raft of changes to the way Portland cops are trained and disciplined, and how they interact with members of the community. While making...

Mayor Ted Wheeler fired police officer Brian Hunzeker Monday, after an investigation found that Hunzeker had broken bureau policy to leak information in retaliation against City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty. Hunzeker formerly served as the president of the Portland Police Bureau's (PPB) rank-and-file union, the Portland Police Association (PPA). Hunzeker stepped down from that role in late March 2021, shortly after PPB leaked information to the Oregonian and online conservative media outlets that falsely accused...

Mayor Ted Wheeler fired police officer Brian Hunzeker Monday, after an investigation found that Hunzeker had broken bureau policy to leak information in retaliation against City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty. Hunzeker formerly served as the president of the Portland Police Bureau's (PPB) rank-and-file union, the Portland Police Association (PPA). Hunzeker stepped down from that role in late March 2021, shortly after PPB leaked information to the Oregonian and online conservative media outlets that falsely accused...

Portland police shooting of Aaron Campbell in 2010 under scrutiny by international commission Updated Jan 20, 2021; Facebook Share The Jan. 29, 2010, police killing of Aaron M. Campbell, an unarmed Black man shot in the back after officers arrived to check on his welfare, drew intense scrutiny in Portland, a grand jury rebuke, a march on City Hall and public condemnation from the Rev. Jesse Jackson. On Wednesday, Campbell’s death garnered international attention. Campbell’s mother, Marva Davis, and the family’s lawyer, Tom Steenson, had an hour to address an international commission de...