SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Portland police are accused of being heavy-handed and reportedly causing some injuries against people protesting a rally by extreme-right demonstrators.
The city’s new police chief on Sunday called for a review of officers’ use of force, which included stun grenades.
The Oregon chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America said police on Saturday primarily focused on protecting the extreme-right demonstrators, who included members of organizations described as hate groups.
Police Chief Danielle Outlaw, who took the job less than a year ago and is Portland’s first African-American female police chief, said she takes all use-of-force cases seriously.
She directed the professional standards division to begin determining if force was used and if it was within policy and training guidelines.
She should investigate whether force was necessary at all and why they focused on one side.
I hear that more than a few of the rightiescum from Washington parked their cars in a store lot over in Vancouver then took their buses to Portland. While they were gone, the store had all their cars towed to a very expensive lot. How many of those white trash with bad teeth have $500 to get their car out of hock? heh heh.
The stories I read were that no cars were towed, but they had to wait for the short buses to transport them from Vancouver WA to Portland.
Here is a counter protester laying on the ground in a neck brace after being hit in the head with a flash-bang grenade. Luckily, he was wearing a helmet. He would be dead otherwise.
If that photo accompanying the article is representative, those police officers are not dressed to keep the peace, they are dressed to bust some heads. That is just plain wrong. They look like jack booted thugs, which of course made the Reich Wingers at the rally feel right at home.