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Multnomah County man was found guilty on Monday of his responsibility in the death of Tyrell Penney, 27, in July 2020.

Mar 15, 2021 Back in June of last year, as the mayors of liberal cities tried to “out-woke” each other during the George Floyd/BLM riots Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced that he was defunding the police department by $12 million. He said that the money taken from the police budget would be diverted to other city departments to support communities of color. Some of the money defunded a police unit that focused on gun violence reduction. “My privilege as a white man, my privilege as the mayor and the leader of the institutions of power in this community I believe shielded me from tim...

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Portland, Oregon, last year dissolved a special police unit designed to focus on gun violence during the national reckoning over racial injustice. Some say disbanding the unit was a mistake.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Elmer Yarborough got a terrifying call from his sister: She wept...