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Student Union members at Portland State University on Monday were overseeing an encampment outside
the PSU Public Safety Office as an “Occupy PSU” protest calling for disarming campus police enters its
second week. The students also distributed literature and answered questions about their cause.
Occupy PSU Protest
Call to disarm campus security enters second week
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D anny p eterson
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Portland State University stu-
dents began a second week of
camping outside the offices of the
university’s Public Safety Office
on Monday to protest the campus
officer-involved shooting death of
Jason Washington and call out for
the disarming of campus police
entirely.
Washington, 45, a Portland
African American father and
grandfather, U.S. Navy Veteran
and postal worker, was shot and
killed by campus police on June
29 while trying to break up a fight
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Carlson said the occupation
of the campus security office has
been “exhausting,” citing the dif-
ficulty of scheduling around class
obligations and sleep deprivation.
The two PSU officers who shot
Washington were cleared of all
criminal wrongdoing by a grand
jury last month. Washington was
shot as police responded to a
disturbance outside the bar and
Washington’s
lawfully-carried
handgun fell out of his holster.
When he went to pick up the gun,
police told him to drop it and fired
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Man Killed in Police Response
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Officers confronted man after hearing shots fired
D anny p eterson
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A community is in mourning
even as many questions remain
unanswered in the wake of an
officer-involved shooting early
Sunday that left one man dead.
It happened around 3:30 a.m. at
Southwest Third and Harvey Milk
Street (formerly Stark) as police
responded to civilian-on-civilian
gunfire that left two others injured.
Patrick Kimmons, 27, died of
police’s gunshot wounds, the Ore-
gon Medical Examiner confirmed.
Police said Kimmons was con-
fronted by two officers who ap-
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outside the Cheerful Tortoise near
the urban campus.
The protesting students also are
calling for the firing of the officers
involved, and asking PSU to in-
stall and pay for a permanent me-
morial on the campus to recognize
Washington’s death.
Portland State Student Union
member Kella Carlson, a junior
at the school, said the over 2,000
signatures received so far for a
petition in support of the student
demands, “Just further shows that
the community, students and fac-
ulty don’t want campus security to
be armed.”
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proached him after hearing gun-
shots in the vicinity. A gun was
found near Kimmons and multiple
other firearms were also found at
the scene, police said.
The two other victims appar-
ently were shot prior to police’s
arrival on the scene, and they later
transported themselves to a local
hospital for serious, but non-life
threatening injuries. Police said
they believe the initial shooting
was between gang-related indi-
viduals.
It’s unclear how many times
police shot Kimmons, though
police stated that multiple wit-
nesses of the incident are being
interviewed, as well as an exam-
ination of a video recovered at the
scene, as part of the investigation.
Two other police officers also wit-
nessed the shooting.
Letha Winston, Kimmons’
mother, has started a gofundme
page to help cover the family’s fu-
neral costs. In the description she
states Kimmons was “shot more
than 15 times in the back as well
as his legs,” but the claim was de-
nied later by police. “This pain has
to stop! I wouldn’t wish this reali-
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