Portland Pays Over $2.8 million for Protest Injuries Caused by PPB

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This interview featured Piper McDaniel, Street Roots Investigative Reporter. Read more of Piper's work at Street Roots. 

Mentioned in Episode: 

• The City of Portland's Lessons Learned Report [Apr 2022]

• United States vs. City of Portland (2012 US. Dept of Justice lawsuit in response to PPB “subjecting individuals with actual or perceived mental illness to excessive force")

• PPB presses for pre-review of body-worn camera footage [Street Roots, Mar 2023]

• Portland police coordinate with federal officers to dispel protestors with 'less-lethal' munitions [Oregonian, K. Rambo, July 2020]

• Photo recap of 100 successive days of protests in Portland [Oregonian]

• Portland Police Budget 2020 cuts short-lived, City Council re-ups budget [KGW, Nov 2021]

Other Related Coverage & Resources:

• US Dept of Justice lawyers furious over revelation of controversial Portland Police training slide encouraging police brutality against protestors [Oregonian, Jan 2022]

• In lead up to 2020 protest-related lawsuit, Mayor Wheeler releases apology for leaked controversial Portland Police training slide [KATU, Jan 2022]

• OR Senate Bill 236: Mandates new requirements for reporting/record-keeping for instances of misconduct and ensures body-worn camera footage is not subject to police pre-review before being made available [In Senate Judiciary Committee as of April 6th, 2023]

• Portland history of racist policing [OPB, Jan 2021]

Episode Credits: 

This episode was hosted and produced by XRAY Development Manager, Nina Dabit, with reporting done by Street Roots Investigative Reporter Piper McDaniel. This episode was edited by Kyle Gilmer of Residual Audio.