“The Aug. 29 incident appears to have been another case of mistaken identity.”
I think the core problem here, is felony police stops. If it’s an appropriate use of force on an accurately identified felony police stop, why can’t that same use of force be applied to any civilian?
People are innocent until proven guilty, that includes people accused of felonies, so a felony police stops overwhelming use of force, is used against an innocent person.
Demilitarization of the police would be excellent, or give them a single bullet instead of multiple magazines. The British model where your average patrol officer is not armed, would do wonders to deescalate situations, cuz then criminals with no hay this isn’t life or death.
Also this:
“They explained that they were looking for a man who’d been evading police, and that they had been “confused” why McDonald had been driving the speed limit, Rossio says.”
Look! It’s a car driving the speed limit! Better ram them off the road!
The probable cause catch 22.
It’s suspicious that they were driving over the speed limit, that’s probable cause for a stop
It’s suspicious that they were driving under the speed limit, that’s probable cause for a stop
It’s suspicious that they were driving exactly at the speed limit, that’s probable cause for a stop
“Another”? Yeah… FTA:
“The legal threat references four other times in recent years that misidentification by Portland police had serious, sometimes deadly, consequences.”
We should have abolished PPB. Transfer our funding to MCSO and cut ties with PPA. Take the time to establish community policing the right way and explicitly not allow the existence of a police union afterwards.
