In Portland, Tuesday’s election results illustrated a curious split between local voters. While Portlanders veered away from more progressive candidates on the ballot, they backed nearly every progressive ballot measure in both local and statewide races. To Mingus Mapps, a former political science professor and city employee elected to Portland City Council Tuesday, the results are a sign Portlanders “are interested in a new kind of politics.. politics that embraces our dreams and our best.
The US Department of Justice has declared that, indeed, the Portland Police Bureau has engaged in "a pattern or practice" of violating the constitutional rights of mentally ill Portlanders through the use of excessive force. And at a news conference this morning, both federal and city officials stood together and promised a raft of changes to the way Portland cops are trained and disciplined, and how they interact with members of the community. While making.
The Portland City Council approved a $5.6 billion annual city budget Wednesday morning, including a 3 percent decrease to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) budget from last year's total. It's the first time the police budget has been decreased—not inflated—in years. The decision comes in the midst of a local and national uprising against police brutality, one that encouraged City Council to tack on $15 million in last-minute cuts to the initially proposed PPB budget..
Two known Antifa "journalists" have filed a frivolous lawsuit against reporter Andy Ngo for retweeting riot footage of theirs using Twitter's video-sharing feature. According to the copyright infringement lawsuit filed in the District of Oregon,.