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Report exonerates Portland Police for role in bogus arrest
Civilian oversight agency releases its recommendations on Portland Police involvement in 2017 incident.
IAfter investigating seven Portland Police Bureau officers for their involvement in the 2017 arrest of Michael Fesser, the Independent Police Review has recommended the exoneration of six officers and to not sustain potential charges of misconduct against the other.
PR, the civilian oversight agency for the city of Portland, found that the officers conduct was consistent with Portland Police practices regarding assisting other agencies.
Portland police assisted WLPD in the 2017 racially-motivated arrest of Fesser. West Linn police orchestrated the investigation and arrest of Fesser as a favor to a friend of then police-chief Terry Timeus, who happened to be Fesser s boss.
West Linn city manager holding off on citizen petition demand to discipline captain for ‘cursory’ internal review of Michael Fesser’s arrest
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
Posted Feb 13, 2021
West Linn City Manager Jerry Gabrielatos said he’s holding off making a decision until he gives Capt. Oddis Rollins a chance to respond to concerns raised by outside consultants about the internal inquiry he conducted into Michael Fesser’s allegations.
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More than 240 people signed a petition started in West Linn urging the city to hold police Capt. Oddis Rollins accountable for a lackluster internal investigation into the arrest of Michael Fesser, a Black man from Portland who was accused of bogus theft charges in 2017.
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.
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.