Recently released report shows how West Linn dealt with racial discrimination lawsuit.
Over the past seven months Michael Gennaco and Robert Miller of the investigative firm OIR Group have attempted to piece together everything that went wrong for the city of West Linn and who is to blame since the moment Michael Fesser served city officials with a tort claim alleging racial discrimination by West Linn police on June 4, 2018.
While it was fairly easy to find fault with the actions of former Chief Terry Timeus and former Sgt. Tony Reeves (as the Clackamas County District Attorney s office demonstrated in its Brady investigative report released in May), the OIR investigators focused on when and how the city from its administrators to members of the police department, elected officials, attorneys and insurance providers failed to handle the aftermath of the illegal and racially-motivated 2017 arrest of Fesser.
December 16, 2020 by Jessica R. Towhey
A liquid natural gas facility near Philadelphia got the go-ahead from a federal agency, resulting in a big thumbs-down from some very famous environmental activists.
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The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) recently approved a construction permit for the Gibbstown Logistics Center in Gloucester County, NJ, which will be capable of handling exports of liquified natural gas. The project from New Fortress Energy involves transporting the gas from the Marcellus Shale across Pennsylvania to the terminal using 100-car trains that activists have called bomb trains.
Pennsylvania State Sen. Katie Muth, who represents Philadelphia s suburbs, likened the trains to the energy of the Hiroshima bomb in a tweet opposing the project.
Outside consultants blast West Linn’s cursory review of Michael Fesser’s wrongful arrest claims
Updated Jan 10, 2021;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
Fired West Linn Police Chief Terry Kruger claimed he had recused himself from the department s internal inquiry into Michael Fesser s allegations because of a personal relationship he had with Fesser s former boss. But Kruger repeatedly defended West Linn police actions and the arrest to the City Council and to the interim city manager.
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West Linn made a “serious misstep” in failing to tap an outside agency to investigate shocking claims raised by Michael Fesser of Portland in his 2018 notice of plans to sue police and the city for wrongful arrest and racial discrimination, independent consultants say.