Portland police officers had an array of reasons why they thought racial justice protests in 2020 were among the largest and most enduring in the city’s history. Not mentioned as potential reasons for the massive protests are a laundry list of grievances against the bureau going back decades.
The Portland City Council has agreed to pay a man $75,000 for the alleged financial, physical and emotional damages that he suffered during a recorded clash with a Portland Police
The first lawsuit against Portland police officers for their treatment of protesters in 2020 has reached its day in court. The case comes from Erin Wenzel, a care coordinator at Oregon Health and Science University who attended a racial justice protest with her husband on August 14, 2020. Wenzel, who lives in Beaverton, attended the North Portland protest as a volunteer medic, bringing first aid supplies to help any injured demonstrators. She identified this role.
June 16 2021
Portland Police Bureau Officer Brent Taylor is named as a defendant in the suit filed by protester Hanna Helm
A protester with disabilities was trapped inside a car for hours after Portland police slashed its tires near a curb preventing the woman from fully opening the passenger door or accessing her wheelchair, a new lawsuit claims.
The suit accuses Portland Police Bureau Officer Brent Taylor of stabbing the vehicle s tires, leaving protester Hanna Helm stranded and stuck for nearly five hours, despite the best attempts of her boyfriend, who was driving the car.
Neither Helm nor her boyfriend were arrested or cited during the incident.
[What follows is part three of a five-part series on the progress Portland has made on police reform over the past year. Read the rest here.—eds] After the June 2020 budget vote, Wheeler released his own “19-point police reform action plan,” detailing ways his office will improve and adjust policing in Portland. A number of those reforms included actions made in the budget (like “remove police officers from schools”), and others were as simple as.