Former Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty has accepted $680,000 to settle a lawsuit against the police union and two officers for sharing information that falsely implicated her of committing a hit-and-run.
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Wasn’t it the current PPB leader (still in the role, fyi) that recently all but confessed to eradicating traffic stops, learning police presence throughout the city, etc. in order to pressure the city for more money?
They did the same to Chesa Boudin in San Francisco too, greatly contributing to the successful recall efforts of a coalition of “centrist” and conservative pro-cop demagogues. The same has probably happened to other reformist prosecutors as well.
That cops would much rather all stop working than let the murderers amongst them face consequences is proof positive that ACAB.
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Wasn’t it the current PPB leader (still in the role, fyi) that recently all but confessed to eradicating traffic stops, learning police presence throughout the city, etc. in order to pressure the city for more money?
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ACAB.
Aren’t >80% of the PPB officers not even from Portland itself? Most are from Vancouver, in an entirely different state! 🤬🖕🏽
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Fuck the police.
They did the same to Chesa Boudin in San Francisco too, greatly contributing to the successful recall efforts of a coalition of “centrist” and conservative pro-cop demagogues. The same has probably happened to other reformist prosecutors as well.
That cops would much rather all stop working than let the murderers amongst them face consequences is proof positive that ACAB.