Street Roots vendors and others on the streets made clear the need for a non-police crisis response, our ... with accounts of rats gnawing at their bodies and their possessions. They’ve also described staying ...
4 Oct 2023 - Kaia Sand
concentrate. The blue and red police lights flashed in the window at West Burnside Street and Third Avenue, and ... we could hear shouts of distress. We hustled downstairs and out to the corner. Several police ... witnessed on our Old Town block in recent weeks, but the police and Rapid Response workers kept coming and, ...
18 May 2022 - Kaia Sand
in the PBOT report as the 8 percent of streets that account for 60 percent of all accidents that ... people. Instead, the mayor’s order is about policing space without adding safe dwellings. It’s important ... presupposition that unhoused people have to be policed — without actually having the housing to offer people ...
9 Feb 2022 - Kaia Sand
police shot John Elifritz on April 7 It has been a hard week at Street Roots. A handful of our vendors ... witnessed the police shooting Saturday night at Cityteam Shelter. People struggling with homelessness, and ... They describe how a clearly disturbed man burst into the space, police lights flashing from the street. ...
13 Apr 2018 - Kaia Sand
flag kitty-corner from our door, one wall between us and the jostling crowds and police sirens. That’s ... will need to manage an impeachment trial that values accountability and a reckoning while also moving ... we need to hold Trump and others accountable. It all needs to happen at once. It’s a heartbreaking ...
20 Jan 2021 - Kaia Sand
streets because the constancy of death of Black Americans at the hands of police is unabated. Kaia Sand is ... livelihoods.” It’s the profiteers that are not household names who need accounting for, too — the private equity ...
6 Jan 2021 - Kaia Sand
racial profiling or to hold the Portland Police Bureau accountable to its residents. FURTHER READING: ... the environment to early childhood education, from tax reform to police accountability, from ... childhood education tax reform police accountability Trimet Print ...
25 Aug 2016 - Israel Bayer
the river a wall of blue behind it. Hayes was 17 years old when the Portland police shot him three ... Oregon’s “Policy Demands.” They contain steps toward accountability and action through the mode of ... and find the areas that you are committed to and that you can lend your support to — police ...
7 Aug 2020 - Kaia Sand
who struggle on the streets. Last week we ran a series of accounts of struggles with police by Street ... attention. That’s how Portland Police Association President Daryl Turner started his public Facebook ... statement on July 16, decrying the new Independent Police Review investigation into whether the Portland ...
20 Jul 2018 - Kaia Sand
I was stunned to read that these arrests account for the majority. The fact that the poor are policed ... Policing the poor just means there’s so much more work to do Now we know: More than half of the ... Police Chief Danielle Outlaw to investigate reports of police profiling and harassing of homeless ...
6 Jul 2018 - Kaia Sand