Portland State rearms campus safety officers downtown

Portland State University has rearmed their campus safety officers with guns, according to an email sent from the school’s President Stephen Percy on Tuesday. This change comes three years after Portland State announced that their security officers would no longer routinely carry guns on patrol, following protests from students, the killing of Navy veteran Jason Washington by campus officers in 2018 and social unrest in 2020. The change went into effect in fall 2021. In his email Tuesday, Percy cited rising dangers, weapon sightings and a lack of support from...