1. Wow, has this ever happened elsewhere?
50 officers, detectives and sergeants on the Portland Police Bureau’s Rapid Response Team voted to resign from the team last night. This will remain on the job. This is the team that handles crowd control at protests among other duties.
50 officers, detectives and sergeants on the Portland Police Bureau’s Rapid Response Team voted to resign from the team last night. This will remain on the job. This is the team that handles crowd control at protests among other duties.
https://twitter.com/Oregonian/status/1405542798879690769
2. Acting Portland Police Chief Chris Davis speaking about the mass resignations at a Zoom press conference.
3. Full press conference on Portland Police Bureau mass resignations from Rapid Response Team.
4. The PPB Rapid Response Team assignment is voluntary. They voted to resign the day after one of the team members, a 6-year veteran of PPB, was indicted on 4th-degree assault charges (misdemeanor) for striking a protester with his baton last August.
oregonlive.com/crime/2021/06/…
oregonlive.com/crime/2021/06/…
5. They "voted to resign due to perceived lack of support from City Hall and from the district attorney over the past year during more than 100 consecutive nights of protest coverage."
6. "Oregon State Police will have its mobile response team on standby to assist Portland police if protests occur in the next few nights. The mayor also discussed backup support from the Oregon National Guard if necessary, according to his office."
7. Mayor & police commissioner Ted Wheeler met with ~40 Rapid Response Team members on a video call this morning and asked them to delay for a week so PPB "could work out logistics for their replacement” but some officers on the call were "shaking their heads in opposition”
8. "The team’s use of force has led to multiple civil lawsuits in state and federal court, sanctions from a judge and now an indictment. Aside from the Oregon State Police, few outside police agencies in the past year were willing to assist Portland in protest coverage."
9. See the rest of The Oregonian’s very long article for more.
10. And to answer my own question from tweet #1, I forgot that all 57 members of the Buffalo PD’s Emergency Response Team resigned from the unit last summer.
In April, 20 Albuquerque PD officers resigned from their Emergency Response Team.
krqe.com/news/protests/…
In April, 20 Albuquerque PD officers resigned from their Emergency Response Team.
krqe.com/news/protests/…
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