Beaten to Death By Portland Police

Protest against Portland Oregon police Department, September 17, 2008, the second anniversary of the beating death of James Chasse, at the hands of the Portland Police.
Chasse, a mildly schizophrenic man died in the police car on the way to the hospital, after jail officials refused to book him due to his severe injuries.
This homicide is only one of many instances where unarmed citizens have died at the hands of Portland police.

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• police
• abuse
• of
• power
• accountability
• chasse

[garretthoward13]

word to the wise:i am all for this. i also believe that a formal dress code without bongo drums would help OUR cause. i grew up sk8boarding my entire life, street kid, but, dont get it twisted. i know that rhetorical conversation works just as much as you could say "rhetorical demonstrations" work. if i worked in the police department and i saw formally dressed patriotic americans no matter they had a drug problem, grew up skateboarding street kids ide be more than likely to listen.

[wrjamescom]

@TheMeltinResponse Come on! Give Uncle Tom some credit. If you read the book he was hardly a friend to the white man. Other than the innkeeper who told Many there was no room, Uncle Tom is perhaps the most improperly hated guy in fiction. But my point was that while some things tend to involve only one race or tend not to involve a race, that is in no way an indication of racism.

[TheMeltinResponse]

@wrjamescom Oh dude, there are blacks in Portland. All these white liberals need to do is unite with them and become their friends, but I have the feeling they don't even do that. They don't even want to be around the muds lol.

Not many at all in the Ozarks square dancing lol.

Thats also true, cultures are different and this is why you don't see blacks in certain places although now it seems like blacks are trying to get into anything white so an Uncle Tom black could be the one squaredancin

[wrjamescom]

@TheMeltinResponse More often than not in such cases, the reason you don't see black faces is simply because there aren't many blacks in the area, or there simply aren't many blacks interested. How many blacks would you expect to see at a square dance in the Ozarks? I'm sure there are blacks who square dance, and there are blacks in the Ozarks. But both tend to be very uncommon. So if you don't see any there, it's not due to racism, but simply cultural demographics and statistics.

[CainMeadows]

@wrjamescom bahaha I was thinking the same thing.

[sodapop1111]

These officers killed this poor man by their actions and should be convicted of murder. Their lies and the coverup of the facts are staggering. The police dept. has the duty to protect the people it serves, this death serves no one.

[threepercenter03]

It is sad when those who volunteer to "protect" us are those who we need protection from.

[TheMeltinResponse]

@wrjamescom These people are indeed wannabe marxists.. they aren't changing the world.. they are just making racket. The thing thats upsetting to me about anti racists or marxists doing these very preachings are the amounts of black faces amongst them being ZERO much of the time. In these times, I am siding with warriors and people who will actually be revolutionary and protecting the borders from scum.

[mightymissk]

@eamonob84 Sure.They didn't mean to kill him. They just meant to brutalize him. Bravo to these brave young people. Cops are not above the law. It is appalling that they beat people up all the time & get away with it. This time, apparently, they got away with a beating that resulted in a homicide. But the victim was homeless, so no one cares--except these courageous kids who protested. Remember the four RCMP cops who tasered a man to death in Vancouver airport? Makes you not trust cops.

[wrjamescom]

What a bunch of wannabe Marxists. They are trying to live the 60s all over again so they can relate to their grandparents.  :)