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  • Nike BEGS Portland mayor for police protection to reopen shuttered community store plagued with retail theft

    03/01/2023 7:03:55 AM PST · by Twotone · 26 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | February 27, 2023 | Joshua Young
    On February 9, Nike sent a letter to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and city officials asking for more police at their MLK Community Store, which has been closed for months because of ongoing retail theft, with the shoe brand even proposing to pay law enforcement directly if it would bring them the protection they were requesting. According to KGW8, Nike proposed two options. The company was open to creating an "intergovernmental agreement" with the city of Portland to directly fund full-time police officers who would be selected to police the store. A second option would be to pay off-duty Portland...
  • "Breaking: Texas Makes Huge Move Against Black Lives Matter"

    07/19/2016 11:12:53 PM PDT · by CorporateStepsister · 52 replies
    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Lone Star State lawmakers are cracking down after recent recent attacks carried out against police officers. Abbott on Monday announced the Police Protection Act, which
 aims to strengthen penalties for crimes committed against police officers.
  • Robbery suspect shot dead in Berkeley

    07/26/2003 2:39:46 PM PDT · by Reeses · 26 replies · 258+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Saturday, July 26, 2003 | Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
    Berkeley and Oakland police shot and killed a bank robbery suspect Friday in a confrontation near the UC Berkeley campus and across from a center where preschool children were playing. Witnesses described a chaotic scene that erupted at 11 a.m. on the 2200 block of Haste Street after officers spent an hour searching for a man who police said had robbed a Wells Fargo bank at College and Ashby avenues and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. "There were like six or seven shots. I heard police saying, 'Don't move, don't move, police' and then 'bop, bop, bop,' "...