Portland, Oregon rejects bid to cut $18M more from police

Posted on AllSides November 7th, 2020
From The Left

City commissioners in Portland, Oregon on Thursday rejected a budget amendment that would have slashed another $18 million from the Portland Police Bureau amid months of racial justice protests and shifted the money to the city’s pandemic response.

The commission voted 3-2 against the amendment, which had been proposed by Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, the first Black woman on the elected body that acts like a city council.

Mayor Ted Wheeler, who is also police commissioner, was one of three commissioners who voted last week to delay a vote on...

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