Medic s arm broken by cops at Portland protest, lawsuit says May 19 2021
Medical assistant Erin Wenzel seeks $500,000 in damages from the city for injuries inflicted in August.
A local medical assistant suffered multiple injuries, including a broken arm, after she was slammed to the ground by Portland cops dispersing a protest last year, according to a lawsuit.
Erin Wenzel says she was acting as a street medic and had multiple red cross insignia on her clothing when officers charged forward and struck her several times as she attempted to comply with their orders to move back. It didn t seem to matter who you were or why you were down there, they were just brutalizing people left and right, Wenzel said in an interview. They were acting like a street gang.
May 01 2021
Adam Graham faces first-degree bias crime charges for allegedly threatening Asian and Black customers of a Scappoose Fred Meyer.
A St. Helens man was arrested after he allegedly mouthed racial slurs while threatening to cut the throats of customers of a local Fred Meyer.
Adam Christopher Graham, 35, now faces two counts of first-degree bias crime, the legal term for a hate crime, as well as a second-degree bias crime charge and two counts of fourth-degree assault. He is accused of using racial slurs that target Asian and Black Americans.
Officers with the Scappoose Police Department arrested Graham around 9:20 a.m. April 24 following reports of an assault in progress at the Fred Meyer store, 51501 Columbia River Highway.