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Portland Business Alliance Violated City Lobbying Rules 25 Times in the Past Year The alliance was fined $450 and encouraged to partake in training to avoid violating rules in the future. Pioneer Place. (Brian Burk) Updated April 29 The Portland city auditor found this week that the Portland Business Alliance violated the city’s lobbying rules 25 times in the past year by failing to disclose emails, texts and letters exchanged with city officials, including the office of Mayor Ted Wheeler.
× By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, oregonlive.com
Published: April 28, 2021, 7:59am
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PORTLAND Three weeks after the Portland City Council approved a sweeping $6 million plan to combat an historic surge in gun violence, most of its core components have been slow to materialize.
There is no firm date for when a reestablished police team tasked with stopping shootings will hit the streets.
The community oversight committee that will eventually monitor and review those officers may not come together for at least another month.
The city has yet to cut a check from the $4.1 million set aside for nonprofits focused on gun violence prevention and healing, and only plans to dole out about 5% of that money by July 1.
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911 caller reported man doing quick-draws with gun in Lents Park leading up to fatal shooting by Portland police
Updated 8:10 PM;
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A 911 caller reported that a man in Lents Park was “acting like James Bond” and “like a cowboy” by doing quick-draws with a gun but not pointing it at anybody, responding Portland police Officer Zachary DeLong told dispatchers.
Only minutes later, DeLong shot and killed Robert Douglas Delgado, 46, according to a timeline and a dispatch recording released Monday by police of the fatal shooting last Friday.
DeLong arrived at the park
at 9:36 a.m.
and alerted dispatch that he saw the man by the east side of the park, with no shirt on and black pants, according to the radio transmissions. The officer
Portland officer who fatally shot man in SE Portland is 8-year Police Bureau member, former Army Ranger
Updated 7:46 AM;
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Portland police on Saturday identified the officer who shot and killed a man in Lents Park on Friday as Zachary DeLong, who has worked for the Portland Police Bureau for eight years.
Two sources with direct knowledge of the investigation said DeLong shot Robert Douglas Delgado, 46, after Delgado drew what appeared to be a firearm. The sources said investigators recovered an orange-tipped replica firearm at the scene in Southeast Portland. DeLong was put on administrative leave, which is standard practice after police shootings.