A Portland Public Schools (PPS) teacher is alleging the district placed him on leave in retaliation for speaking out against the district’s plans to relocate Harriet Tubman Middle School due to the expansion of a nearby freeway. His students are calling for his return to the classroom. Bryan Chu, an 8th grade social studies teacher at Harriet Tubman, was placed on leave April 1 while the district investigates his professional behavior. A letter from the.
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• In order to settle a wrongful death lawsuit, the City of Portland has agreed to pay $600,000 to the family of Terrell Johnson, who was in mental distress when he was shot and killed by a Portland police officer in 2017. Our Alex Zielinski has the details.
This will be second settlement resulting from a wrongful death case involving a PPB cop to reach Portland City Council in 2021. The first was regarding the death of Quanice Hayes, the teenager who was killed just three months before Johnson. https://t.co/r1ARUhkyp1 Alex Zielinski (@alex zee) June 8, 2021
• Portland police reform inches forward: On Monday the state legislature removed any legal hurdles that the Portland Police Association the union for the city s rank-and-file cops would have used to stymie the creation of a new police board.
The crowd reached downtown just before midnight on May 29, 2020, moving as a buzzing mass of energy and outrage through North Portland and across the Willamette River. When the hundreds of marchers turned down SW Main from 4th Ave. toward the Multnomah County Justice Center, where a few dozen protesters waited to meet them, the night air turned electric with potential. “Say his name!” yelled a woman through a bullhorn. “George Floyd!” the marchers.
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Rolling Stone Menu Justice Department Slams Portland Police for Unconstitutional Abuses
In violent crackdowns of police-accountability protests, the Portland Police Bureau saw “all force as justified”
By Portland Police respond to a riot declaration following the police shooting of a homeless man on April 16, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. The shooting comes amid heightened tensions between police and activists as the country awaits a verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin. Nathan Howard/Getty Images
PORTLAND The Department of Justice has delivered a striking rebuke of the Portland Police Bureau for its brutal policing of last year’s racial justice protests, calling out the police for violations of bureau policy and the U.S. constitution, while criticizing a leadership structure that “lacks critical self-assessment” and broadly views “all force as justified.”