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Robert King is the Senior Public Safety Advisor to the Portland mayor.
Let's take a look at his history.
Let's take a look at his history.
In 1992, he shot and killed an 18-year-old who allegedly stole something from a corner store.
I cannot find an article, but you can see it mentioned in several articles below.
I cannot find an article, but you can see it mentioned in several articles below.
In 1997 he was on the Special Emergency Response Team. In response to a mental health call, 60 officers came in what was a 5 hour stand-off with PPB escalating at every turn. He was one of three officers who shot and killed Bill Utton, a 65 year-old-man. http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/police-man-they-killed-in-shootout-had-death-wish/
In 2007, now head of the police union, he tried to block changes to PPB's racial profiling. His own consultant found that Black Portlanders were more likely to be pulled over and less likely to have contraband, but that wasn't profiling because ... reasons https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/you-cant-prove-it/Content?oid=758817
In 2010, as a lieutenant, he eventually went against his written analysis to say that officer Ron Frashour's fatal shooting of Aaron Cambell in response to a mental health call was following training protocol. Cambell was an unarmed black man. https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2012/06/portland_police_union_calls_fo_1.html
He resigned December 2017 to "spend more time with his family." He forgot to mention that he was under investigation for using a police database to find a victim's personal information to give to the perpetrator's father, a church friend. https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2019/04/portland-mayor-taps-former-police-union-president-to-serve-as-his-senior-public-safety-adviser.html?outputType=amp
In this role, he backed PPB's false and still unretracted claims that antifascist activists put cement in milkshakes.
"There was a powdery substance," said Robert King, the adviser. "There was also an odor." https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/432586-341895-milkshake-protest-stirs-up-controversy-across-us-
"There was a powdery substance," said Robert King, the adviser. "There was also an odor." https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/432586-341895-milkshake-protest-stirs-up-controversy-across-us-
Why does Mayor Wheeler have PPB officer who retired in disgrace, doesn't believe in racial profiling, shot and killed two portlanders, shown to lie in reports and on the stand about fatal shootings, and doesn't know what a milkshake is in a senior public safety role?
