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“We need to build trust between impacted communities and law enforcement to create real community safety in Portland, and the wanton encouragement of police violence against protesters is a major setback in that vital process.”Ĭommissioner Carmen Rubio added: “Portlanders and the Department of Justice have asked us to transform our public safety system, and this is why. “The extremist imagery and vitriol portrayed by the Portland Police Bureau Rapid Response Team’s training presentation is reprehensible,” Ryan said.
Ryan said he and his colleagues will share those findings “as soon as they are available,” and that he is pleased that an internal investigation of the protest presentation is underway. The city is expected to release a report detailing an outside contractors’ review of racial and political bias within the Police Bureau by the end of January. The most unfortunate aspect of this is that it takes the attention away from the good work the Portland Police Bureau is doing to address gun violence and increase public safety in Portland.”
“This team was disbanded, and we are reforming our approach to protests and rioting. “I am frustrated and disappointed by the Rapid Response Team training document,” Mapps said. “At this time, it remains unclear who added the final slide, when this slide was added to the training material, or if it was used during a Portland police training,” the mayor’s office said Friday. The office added that it does not know for certain when the presentation was created, but that it could date back to 2018. The mayor’s office said the city discovered the slide in September 2021 while reviewing documents for the case. They have filed a motion to extend the filing deadline until Jan. ( Update, 6pm Friday, Jan 14: the plaintiff’s attorneys were unable to file the brief by today’s deadline because it exceeds the 50-page limit. The brief will include slides from the presentation, according to lawyers familiar with the case. The mayor’s announcement landed hours before attorneys representing the group Don’t Shoot Portland were expected to file a brief in their federal court case against the city, which was initially filed in June 2020 alleging excessive use of force by the Police Bureau against protesters.