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July 10, 2019
B ID /C LASSIFIED
Letter to the Editor
L egaL N otices
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On Police Response to Protests
Editor’s note: The following
is an open letter to Portland
Police Chief Outlaw and Mayor
Wheeler from members of Port-
land Copwatch:
We are very concerned about
the police and city’s response to
the protests on Saturday, June
29.
One primary concern is the
statement which came from Dar-
yl Turner at the Portland Police
Association asking that you take
the “handcuffs” off of the rank-
and-file officers so they can act
with “strong and swift enforce-
ment action.” This echoes the
highly inaccurate complaints by
those who wanted the US to step
up its violent attacks in South-
east Asia saying that the Viet-
nam War was fought with “one
hand tied behind our backs.”
We appreciate that the mayor
took time to call out the PPA’s
comments as false and mislead-
ing. However, when he says
he condemns violence, it rings
hollow when essentially saying
the police get to decide how to
attack demonstrators. The state,
we’ve noted before, declares a
monopoly on violence.
Secondly there is the issue
of the unsubstantiated rumors
about quick drying cement be-
ing put into milkshakes that were
thrown. But according to one
article, adding such a substance
into a sugary drink would chem-
ically negate the use of cement.
The article also debunked the
rumor as false and exposed other
misleading tactics such as the use
of photographs taken in different
places long ago which purported
to be current and local.
The fact that an officer would
post something on social me-
dia as though this were a sub-
stantiated fact with no concrete
evidence (pun intended) is not
“responsible” as Mayoral Pub-
lic Safety Advisor Robert King
put it. The Bureau is constantly
telling people in the community
not to spread rumors and assume
wrongdoing immediately after
police shootings-- even as the
facts have been harder to come
by in the last several years.
If the PPB is going to ask for
an “innocent until proven guilty”
standard for themselves, surely
at the very least any post about
such rumors/suspicions can be
couched in terms such as “al-
legedly” or “suspected” rather
than stated as facts.
Related to this point is the
question of why the mayor’s aide
(a former captain at the PPB-- and
a former president of the PPA) is
making statements about the po-
lice action rather than the PPB
spokesperson or the chief. We
note that the chief did describe
the reality that some people think
the police go too far while others
think they don’t go far enough.
Finally, it should go without
saying that we are always con-
cerned when we see the PPB us-
ing pepper spray and (reportedly)
pepper ball guns against entire
crowds of people. While there
were some small disturbances
and clashes, several people we
know went downtown and didn’t
witness any violence. This brings
to mind whether there was, again,
an over-reaction by the police de-
spite the fact that Officer Turner
thinks his colleagues were “hand-
cuffed.”
Dan Handelman, Regina
Hannon, Peter Parks and other
members of Portland Copwatch