Justin James Bridges

The Portland Police Bureau wants to address community concerns about the treatment of Justin Bridges on Sunday November 13, 2011 as officers cleared people out of Chapman Square.

The Police Bureau has released police video of Mr. Bridges being dragged to safety after he apparently fell down in between police, protestors, a trash can, and newspaper boxes. Officers dragged Mr. Bridges away from a very volatile situation as they are trained to do when anyone goes to the ground at the front lines of a protest. As an example, Officer Curtis Brown, who was struck by a projectile early Sunday morning, went to the ground and was almost immediately carried away from the front lines by officers to an awaiting ambulance.

Once safely behind the lines, he was temporarily flex cuffed as officers talked to him. Mr. Bridges let officers know that he had a previous broken back and was having some pain. Officers continued to talk with him as they called for medical personnel to respond. Mr. Bridges was able to stand and walk, with officers assisting, to a nearby park bench where they awaited medical personnel to arrive.

Once an ambulance arrived, Mr. Bridges was placed on a stretcher and transported to the hospital. He was not arrested or cited.

In reviewing Portland Police Bureau video and video taken by people in the crowd, it does not appear that Mr. Bridges was ever struck by officers.

The Police Bureau is releasing this video because of the compelling public interest regarding this incident and as part of its continuing effort to be transparent.

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[PDXFANATIC]

@ReallyRick Police don't show the part of the video where they are beating people with clubs. Beatings can be seen at pdxfanatic(.)com as well as an interview with Justin Bridges in the hospital today. He was beaten with clubs.

[MsSarahDuffgirl]

This video was clearly edited. Some commenters say he was yelling at cops before he was arrested. That was someone else. Justin can only be seen being dragged and screaming in horrific pain. Poor guy!!

[temper001]

@raultalbot7 - Is that statement somehow profound to your limited experience cognitive cube and it's base lexicon?

[vpaczkowski]

Yelling is not violence it's free speech at a higher volume. Please read your Constitution anti occupiers. While you are at it why don't you read up on the Fed and how it works. Or better yet keep your head in the sand permanently instead of coming on youtube to play Mr. Forensics.

[raultalbot7]

@temper001 ...

Yesterday's news is today's toilet paper.

[temper001]

@raultalbot7 - One man's book is but another man's toilet paper. It all depends on the user. Verily.

[xxOccupyxx]

Edited video; you can see where the cuts were made.

[GtrGreg67]

Yelling at cops ??? Oh heavens no ! Now those cops might need some serious therapy to overcome their crushed self esteem at the hands of this callous yeller ! Does anybody have any idea how much that therapy will cost the taxpayers? That's taxpayer money that surely would have gone straight to the school district !

[82byrdman]

@PDXFANATIC You call that a beating, your out of your mind. He wasn't even hitting them hard enough for them to move, which is why he continued hitting them (referring to the only officer that was raising the baton above his head, to the back and right in the video.). Justin was also beating his head against the sidewalk to make it look like the police were beating him (It's at about 1:12 in the video police released).

[82byrdman]

@darrenkis Only thing that's BS is the occupy movement, do a search for "mortar" on KGW's website (it was the first article to show up in the search yesterday) For some reason youtube doesn't allow you to post links.