News for the week of February 15

General news

AP News

KGW

Police called to Fred Meyer after group gathers food dumped during power outage

OPB

The Oregonian

Portland Mercury

Hall Monitor: “Here to help”

Street Roots

The human stories behind a slate of Oregon policing bills

Vice

Why Were Portland Police Guarding a Dumpster of Discarded Food?

Willamette Week

Far right extremism

CNN

Oath Keeper claims she was VIP security at Trump rally before riot and says she met with Secret Service agents

Global Voices

Serbia expels US neo-Nazi after investigative website Bellingcat outed his location

Media Matters for America

January 6 insurrectionists and other far-right figures are congregating on gaming platform Trovo

The New York Times

A Small Group of Militants’ Outsize Role in the Capitol Attack

NPR

Justice Department Charges Suspected Oath Keepers In Plot To Attack The Capitol

OPB

The Oregonian

Protocol

A Macedonian misinformation site dominated Parler before the Capitol riot

Raw Story

Proud Boy open to plea deal — and believes an associate has turned cooperating witness: report

Star Tribune

Woman charged in Capitol melee says Proud Boys recruited her

Vice

Department of Homeland Security Confirms Neo-Nazi Leader Used to Work For It

Willamette Week

Hate crimes

OPB

The Oregonian

First Oregon missing and murdered Indigenous persons report released

Housing and homelessness

Portland Mercury

Emergency Homeless Shelters Will Remain Open Monday Night

OPB

The Oregonian

Willamette Week

Incarceration

OPB

Executioners sanitized accounts of deaths in federal cases

The Oregonian

Judge limits jail booking criteria as Multnomah County works to reduce inmate population after COVID outbreak

Law enforcement

Daily KOS

‘Gas em. I don’t give a s–t,’ says cop from same force that wanted BLM protesters charged as gang

NPR

U.S. Capitol Police Union Issues No-Confidence Vote For Top Leaders

The Oregonian

Portland police launch specialized team of officers to respond and investigate shootings in city

Portland Mercury

Willamette Week

Portland Police Bureau Forms 24/7 Investigative Unit to Curb Historic Shootings and Homicides