Recordings From a Police Plane Show Officers Looking for Reasons to Arrest the Leftist Protesters Below

The recordings, Ahern’s attorney Juan Chavez says, show police arrested protesters without suspecting a crime. “The city had an open and verbalized policy of arresting leftist protesters without probable cause,” Chavez wrote in a Feb. 26 legal filing. “The city was so unabashed about this policy that they announced it over the radio before realizing …

State Records Suggest Multnomah County Deputies Let Hoover Gang Members Beat Up Jailhouse Rivals

Hoover-affiliated inmates would enforce discipline for the deputies and, in return, deputies would allow them to exact bloody revenge on their rivals. [...] The central allegation in the report is that jail deputies did favors for members of the Hoover gang—including running drugs, bringing in contraband, and buzzing inmates into cells to beat up their …

A gunman killed and injured protesters at a BLM march. Why did police blame the victims?

Two years after an attacker shot five volunteers before a Black Lives Matter march in Portland, Oregon, killing a 60-year-old woman and leaving one of her young friends paralyzed, a new visual investigation of the attack reveals that the assailant tried to provoke a stand-your-ground situation, daring three women to fight him, before suddenly opening fire …

Flustered by OPB report, Vancouver police spent months trying to unearth sources

After the Vancouver Police Department suspended a politically ambitious officer and told its staff via email, the agency spent weeks trying to figure out how the public found out. An investigator who tried to find a link between Vancouver officers and OPB came up empty handed, but only after working on the case for approximately …

Seattle’s queer community is furious after gay bars were raided over the weekend

So they're not happy about what happened. A lot of people are horrified that pictures were taken. A lot of people were horrified at the image of a bunch of officials coming into a bar with flashlights. That is something that really recalls, you know, historical raids on gay bars that happened for decades, where …

Seattle gay bar could be cited for possible ‘exposure of a male nipple’

Seattle city leaders have questions for the state’s liquor board after multiple gay bars were inspected by police last weekend. The board claims these were routine, monthly checks, but bar owners in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood said they feel targeted by law enforcement. Joey Burgess, who owns two gay clubs in Capitol Hill, said Friday …

2023 saw record killings by US police. Who is most affected?

Mapping Police Violence, a non-profit research group, catalogs deaths at the hands of police and last year recorded the highest number of killings since its national tracking began in 2013. The data suggests a systemic crisis and a remarkably consistent pattern, with an average of roughly three people killed by officers each day, with slight upticks in …

Cops Crash SUV Into LGBTQ Bar, Arrest Owner For Assault

That’s when, understandably, the bar’s co-owner Chad Morris (who also goes by Chad Wick), allegedly began to “scream obscenities” following the crash, according to police. The officer continued to write that Morris “struck me hard in the chest with an open hand, causing me to temporarily lose my balance.” Even if that did happen, and that’s …

US family of 11-year-old shot by police vows to seek justice after officer gets no charges

The family of an 11-year-old boy who was shot by police after he called 911 and asked for their help have vowed to continue to fight for justice after authorities declined to charge the officer involved. [...] The family – and the lawsuit – have repeatedly asked for police body-camera footage of the incident to be released …

Sober Hawaii Man Was Arrested For Drunk Driving To Justify Police Department’s Overtime

The U.S. is recording alarmingly high cases of false DUI arrests; for the last few years, police departments nationwide have conducted more “emphasis patrols” in order to curb drunk driving. But these DUI checkpoints are often federally-funded, and the overtime hours they provide are paid for by state and federal agencies, rather than the police departments …