4/20/2023 News Roundup Part 2

TEAR GAS <<Portland police blanketed downtown in tear gas at concentrations more than 50 times what federal regulators consider “immediately dangerous,” The Guardian reported yesterday. The first-of-its-kind analysis was performed by Forensic Architecture, a company that investigates human rights abuses. At one location, it concluded that concentrations were 2,000 times the federal limit on the …

3/11/2023 News Roundup

SHOOTING <<A grand jury has ruled that Roseburg police officers were justified in using deadly force when they shot and killed a man at an overnight warming shelter last week. Douglas County District Attorney Rick Wesenberg said state police first spotted the 20-year-old Grants Pass man walking on the shoulder of I-5 near Roseburg on …

2/4/23 News Update

LAWSUIT <<A Portland protester who was yanked off the street and thrown into a van by federal officers in 2020 has lost his case in federal appeals court, because… *checks notes*… Congress hasn’t made a law about the feds kidnapping citizens off the street?>> https://www.portlandmercury.com/good-afternoon-news/2023/02/03/46334872/good-afternoon-news-multcos-new-plan-to-house-homeless-today-in-wealthy-portland-crybabies-and-balloon-balloon-ballooooooooon SHOOTING <<The Marion County District Attorney’s Office says five Salem …

1/13/23 News Update

OPACITY <<Portland police Officer Joshua Dyk shot and killed 40-year-old Aaron Stanton on July 27 in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Southeast Portland. Less than four months later, Officer Christopher Sathoff fatally shot Immanuel Clark-Johnson, 30, near Reed College. But the public did not learn these names until December, when the Portland Police Bureau identified Dyk …