Pamplin Media Group - Portland mayor to halt funding for Hazelnut Grove homeless pamplinmedia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pamplinmedia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Portland businesses are navigating wave of window smashing and burglaries with little help from city
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Posted Feb 17, 2021
Work crews on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, clean up damage and board up windows in Northeast Portland s Hollywood District after protesters the previous night damaged and vandalized 27 businesses and workspaces, police said.
Facebook Share
Hanh Truong arrived at Fujiyama Sushi Bar & Grill early Jan. 28 to find the floor of the restaurant covered with broken glass.
Security footage showed someone driving up to the Southeast 82nd Avenue sushi bar before hurling a rock through the window. The same person threw another rock through the window of the nail salon next door before driving away, said Truong, the store manager at Fujiyama.
by Alex Zielinski • Feb 11, 2021 at 4:36 pm Mathieu Lewis-Rolland
One year ago, city leaders and Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officials had cause for celebration: After six years of working to meet the law enforcement reforms mandated in a settlement agreement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the city had received notice from the feds that it had finally met all 190 of the agreement’s requirements.
The detailed 2014 agreement came after a DOJ investigation found that PPB officers were using excessive force against people with mental illness. The agreed-upon reforms included creating a streamlined police accountability system, training officers to use less physical force, and requiring detailed reports from officers after they use force.
The owner of the apartment building near the North Portland home that served as flashpoint late last year in the gentrification and racial justice movement has sued the owners of the empty lot next to the house. Ken Vonderach’s lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that the lot is a nuisance that has been transformed into a “major homeless encampment and staging ground for people to trespass” on .
Willamette Week
The need for strong, independent local journalism
is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we
love by joining Friends of Willamette Week.
Murmurs: Mayor Will Have Security Protection in Public Settings In other news: Kotek aims to decriminalize homelessness. DESPERATE MEASURES: House Speaker Tina Kotek presided over two previous special sessions of the Oregon Legislature. Updated February 3
MAYOR WILL HAVE SECURITY PROTECTION IN PUBLIC SETTINGS: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler will now have a security detail with him nearly every time he goes out in public following the Jan. 24 pepper-spraying by the mayor of a lawyer who followed him to his car outside a McMenamins pub. The mayor has enhanced security measures, and we believe they will be effective in protecting the mayor s safety, said Jim Middaugh, a spokesman for Wheeler. Given recent events, the mayor will be using that service more frequently and virtually any time he is in a public settin