John SextonPosted at 6:20 pm on January 15, 2021
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Portland City Commissioner Dan Ryan was the swing vote on a proposal to cut $18 million from the city’s police budget. That proposal came from fellow Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty and was supported by Commissioner Chloe Eudaly. A group of Antifa/BLM activists saw Ryan as a potential third vote to pass the measure. Several dozen of them marched to Ryan’s house in late October and began chanting.
Protesters have taken to city council commissioner Dan Ryan’s home to ask him to defund PPB pic.twitter.com/jiadSi7ayS
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These 4 Days of 420 are for you. This is a moment of change, said Steven Schuback, the outside labor attorney hired to lead the city s negotiations, at the start of Wednesday s session.
Since the negotiations were put on pause by the pandemic a decision that eventually forced the city to extend the expiring contract past its June 30 end date a national uprising against racist policing and police brutality drew tens of thousands of Portlanders to the streets to call for overdue changes. Officers with the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) responded to these demonstrations with heavy-handed and largely indiscriminate force, using tear gas and munitions to disperse groups of largely peaceful protesters.
The city's lead negotiator, labor lawyer Steven Schuback, said the city-sought reforms reflect the need for the Police Bureau to reestablish public trust. Union attorney Anil Karia calls for "common sense policing."
City negotiators Wednesday opened Portland police contract talks by seeking new educational requirements for officers pursuing promotions, greater latitude for city officials to speak publicly about alleged misconduct and police performance evaluations that could lead to discipline.