February 27, 2019
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Students occupy Portland State University’s Campus Public Safety building in October following the
campus officer-involved shooting death of Jason Washington.
Armed Police Get Nod
PSU recommendation at
odds with campus survey
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A special board meeting at Portland State Univer-
sity has been scheduled for next Thursday, March 7
after consultants hired by the university released a
report Friday recommending keeping armed officers
at PSU even as it presented a new survey showing a
slim majority on campus were opposed.
The consulting firm Margolis Healy found that 52
percent of polled students, faculty and staff want the
school’s campus safety officers to disarm.
The accompanying 213 page report, which was
commissioned by PSU, comes after campus public
security officers responded to a disturbance last June
29 that resulted in the death of Jason Washington,
a 45-year-old African-American Veteran, father,
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grandfather and postal worker, outside the Cheerful
Tortoise bar, near the Southwest Portland campus.
Witnesses said Washington was trying to break
up a fight and a gun fell from his body before he
tried to pick it up. He was shot multiple times by
two responding PSU officers, marking the first of-
ficer-involved shooting at the school since campus
police were armed in July 2015.
The officers were cleared of all wrong-doing by
a Grand Jury. Body-cam video captured from both
officers during the incident that seemed to show
Washington holding a gun. The weapon was later
determined to be his friend’s, but Washington had a
permit to carry a concealed handgun.
Student-led protests and occupations of the Cam-
pus Public Safety building followed with the pro-
testers over arcing demand for disarming campus
officers.
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Police Cleared; Family Responds
Mayor, police
chief promise
additional
review
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The family of a legally blind
and mentally challenged black
man who was shot and killed
in an officer-involved shooting
met with Mayor Ted Wheeler
and Police Chief Danielle Out-
law Friday hours after a Mult-
nomah County Grand Jury found Andre Gladen
no criminal wrongdoing against
the police officer involved in the
shooting.
The jury determined the police
officer was acting in self-defense
on Jan. 6 when Andre Gladen, 36,
threatened the officer with a knife
and was shot and killed. Police
were first called to a report that
Galen was sleeping on a porch in
the 9600 block of Southeast Mark
Street and then he ran inside the
home when police arrived and
refused to leave, authorities said.
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