Police brutality spiking in Portland

George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were murdered thousands of miles away, but racism and police brutality hit equally close to home for Portland.

In fact, Portland ranks the highest in the country for the number of incidents where police responded to citizens at the peaceful George Floyd protests with unnecessary force and brutality, with 69 documented cases over the last 6 weeks.

And on Thursday evening last week, Dominique Dunn, a Black man, was shot and killed in a suspected racist attack in SW Portland. Shaindia Harris, a Black woman who had just graduated high school, was shot and killed in Lents on Friday evening.

We can’t let Black lives and Black futures fade from our minds or from the media’s coverage; that’s why we need to keep showing up!