Email Newsletter icon, E-mail Newsletter icon, Email List icon, E-mail List iconNo fear, no compromise, & no surrender: Occupy the Alliance Mailing List!
Follow @ThePDXAlliance 

Of, by, and for the People!
About Us | Subscribe | Contact & Submission info | Volunteer

Active Community,
Cartoons
, Cartoons by Shannon Wheeler, Clyde List, & Steve Amy   

Speaking
Truth to Power & Distressing Portland's Elites
Since 1981!

Photo of Don DuPay
by Theresa Griffin Kennedy

Navigation:

FrontPage / Activism /
BlogPortal / Calendar /
Ongoing Calendar Events
Donate / Flyer/
Pictures on Picasso:
picasaweb.google.com/
theportlandalliance
/
PDX Music /
Poster / Subscribe /
Place Ad / Ad Rates /
Online Ads /
Advertising /
Twitter / News! /
Previous Issues /
Blog/ Myspace /
Facebook1 / Facebook2
Waterfront Blues Fest
Alliance on YouTube:

youtube.com/theportlandalliance

Features:
Joe Anybody!
Active Community /
A Few Words /
Arts & Culture /
Book Reviews! /
Breaking News /
Cartoons / Steve Amy /
Too Much Coffee Man /
Community Calendar /
Cover The Real News! /

Fifth Monday LaborRadio!
Jobs / Labor History /
Letters / Music /
NewsBytes /
Poetry/
Mike Hastie Poetics

Progressive Directory /
Secret Society /
Viewpoints & Commentary

Columns:
William Beeman /
Ellen Brown /
Shamus Cooke /
Tom Engelhardt /
Kucinich /
Michael Munk /
Myers / William Reed /
Mark Schwebke /
Norman Solomon /
Vorpahl /
Lawrence S. Wittner


Partners: ACLU
AFD / AFL-CIO
Alliance for Democracy
AMA / Backspace
B-MediaCollective Bread&Roses /
CIO / CAUSA/
CLG / Code Pink
Common Dreams /
CWA / DIA /
Democracy Now /
First Unitarian Church
FSP /ISO /
Jobs w\ Justice /
KBOO /Labor Radio /
LGBTQ / MRG / Milagro /
Mobile T's Cover the News
Mosaic / Move-On /
NWLaborPress
Occupy /OEA /
Occupy PDX /
Oregon Peace & Justice /
Peace House
Peace worker /
PCASC / PPRC /
Right 2 Dream Too /
Sisters of The Road
Street Roots / Skanner /
SocialistWorker.org /
The Nation / TruthOut /
The 99%
Urban League /
VFP / Voz
We Are Oregon

Whitefeather
Witness for Peace /

Topics: A-F
Arts & Culture /
AIPAC / Beatles /
Books /
Bradley Manning /
Cartoons /
Civil Rights / Coal /
Death Penalty / Drones /
Economic Justice /
Education /
Election 2012 /
Fascism /
Fair Trade / F-29 /
Environment /
Film / Fluoridation
Foreclosure /
Topics: G-R
Health Care / Homeless / Iraq
J-Street / Jill Stein /
Justice Party / Middle East /
Music /
Occupy Blog / Peace /
Persian / Police /
Post Office / Quotes
Topics: S-Z
STRIKE! / Theatre /
The Pongo Fund /
Torture / TPP /
Tri-Met / Union /
Unionresource / VDay /
Viewpoints
Visual Arts
Voices in Action
War & Peace /
Women / Writing /
WritingResource
Yell

...Audio evidence has Keaton Otis screaming, his are hands up. An officer shouts, “Let’s do it!” and three members of Portland's anti-gang HEAT Team open fire..

   http://hippasus.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/the-killing-of-keaton-otis/#video

 
Justice for Keaton Otis Portal
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/keatonotis 
    • From Justice For Keaton Otis:

       

       https://www.facebook.com/events/409849904506163/


      Justice For Keaton Otis shared an event.  

       


      #BlackLivesMatterFB page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-For-Keaton-Otis/127054844033835?ref=ts&fref=ts

      ..Audio evidence has Keaton Otis screaming, his are hands up. An officer shouts, “Let’s do it!” and three members of Portland's anti-gang HEAT Team open fire...

      Justice for Keaton Otis Portal

      http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/keatonotis
              
                      Keaton Otis was a young Black man murdered by the Portland police 13 years

      go, May 12, 2010. The police admitted they stopped him for "looking like a gangster."

      They shot him 23 times after tazing him while he sat in the driver's seat. Later police said

      Keaton had a gun, but have yet to produce it.

      Keaton's father Fred Bryant held a monthly vigil on the 12th of every month since his

      son's murder on the spot where Keaton's life was taken. Fred Bryant did this for over three

      years, fighting for justice for his son, every single month in the rain, the dark, the heat, the

      snow. Fred Bryant passed away October 29, 2013.

      His family and community have committed to continuing the vigils every month on the

      12th, until justice is achieved for Keaton, for Fred, for our whole community.

      Please join that struggle this month and help to spread the word.

      #BlackLivesMatter

      FB page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-For-Keaton-Otis/127054844033835?ref=ts&fref=ts

        Not one civilian witness at the scene saw Keaton with a gun -- but we've all seen images of the young father being killed by a gang squad. We demand evidence and justice, See http://justiceforkeatonotis.wordpress.com for more.
      Long Description
       
      Keaton Dupree Otis (25) was electrocuted then shot by Portland Police Officers Jim Defrain, Cody Berne and Andrew Polas. Officer Christopher Burley was likely struck by a fragment of one of 32 rounds fired by police. The Otis case reveals what a subsequent DoJ investigation termed Portland's 'self-defeating accountability system.' It shows how a county DA fakes a Grand Jury presentation ... in order to exonerate fellow law enforcers. This case demonstrates how the City of Portland refuses appeals that challenge police investigations into their own conduct. We hope the Keaton Otis case will demonstrate how a community can unmask a cover-up and obtain independent investigations into police misconduct. Never in Portland's history has a police officer been removed from duty for improper use of force. Join us. Obtaining justice will require your energy and assistance.
       
      General Information
       
      On May 12th, 2010, Keaton Otis was killed by Portland police officers after a 'routine traffic-stop' went bad. The official story reports that Keaton Otis had a gun and fired it at the officers, shooting Officer Christopher Burley in the legs. The officers allegedly responded and shot Keaton to death inside of his car.

      But there are holes in the story and several questions remain unanswered. Keaton's father, Fred, was never provided adequate evidence that his son had a gun.

      As members of the community, we demand that the Portland Police Bureau either produce this "evidence" or hold these officers accountable for this execution.

      We demand justice for Keaton Otis. We have subject matter experts, available for media interviews, and seek to make detailed information available to documentary producers.

      FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
      Footage of the killing is online at:
      http://youtu.be/T9xNEX93sYM

      Some of the Grand Jury testimony is available here:
      http://www.scribd.com/full/32674923?access_key=key-10dy9jwn3clbh3vzsz10

      Join this blog:
      http://justiceforkeatonotis.wordpress.com/

      Please show up to support the family.Keaton was murdered by the Portland Police Department. We have absolute proof on videotape. None of the officers who lied were disciplined, fired or prosecuted. The officers who told the truth were ignored.  If our officers are not held accountable for avoidable deaths, the coffins continue.  
       



From http:// justiceforkeatonotis.wordpress.com/

“He kind of looks like he could be a gangster,” police later claimed, “he’s got his hood up over his head,” and he had “some scruffy, scruffy facial hair.”

A witness testified Keaton Otis appealed for help — “Don’t leave," he pleaded with this stranger, "they’re gonna kill me.” 

Witnesses tell of Keaton Otis being punched in the face through the car window, of officers not letting him out of his mother's car. And then multiple officers began nearly continuous use of tasers. 

By 6:25pm Keaton Otis was dying. Audio evidence has Keaton Otis screaming, his are hands up. An officer shouts, “Let’s do it!” and three members of Portland's anti-gang HEAT Team open fire.

Two officers were wounded as bullets bounced from a brick wall. It was easily established that the more superficial wounds came from ricochet rounds. 

Within minutes Portland’s most notorious police officers — with prior, proven histories of violence against innocent and often black, Portlanders — close associates of the shooters, converged on the scene; taking control of the car, the body and evidence… and arguing to keep the rival Strategic Emergency Response Team from securing the crime scene.

Long minutes after the killing, Portland police abused Keaton Otis' corpse, firing beanbag rounds at his lifeless body. 

Portland Police began to immediately abuse the criminal justice system. A state-wide investigation will break the ranks of the 'blue wall of silence' and discrepancies in officer accounts, evidence, and medical records will come to light.

With your help, Keaton Otis' death will expose the flaws in the County DA's bogus Grand Jury proceedings. We'll show how skewed testimony and procedural gimmicks prevented your peers from understanding the timeline never permits Keaton to have fired a shot, even if they were ever able to prove he was armed.

Another consequence of your involvement will be to demonstrate the structural deficiencies of Portland's Independent Police Review apparatus. This body, which the US DoJ terms a 'self-defeating accountability system,'persistently refused to investigate ... or even to allow Keaton's father to appeal the City's self-exoneration.

Join us.


The 15-minute i-phone video of the killing can be viewed here.

A 21-second enhanced version of the video with time stamp and sub-titles can be viewed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRL6Mo61mxU

For links to publicly-available documents, including the Grand Jury transcript and transcripts of police interviews with witnesses and officers, officer biographies, press reports, statements and maps click here.

For a detailed review of events, police claims, the publicly-available documents + inconsistencies and questions raised click here.

For more information about the Justice for Keaton Otis Campaign see Justice for Keaton Otis on facebook.


 

"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want
and the courage to take.”

Emma Goldman


The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule...
~George Elliot


The Keaton Otis Portal
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/otis


For all we can know

The Universe begins and ends

in each of us,

in the reach of our own hands.

~From Time on Our Hands, by Max Linden Levy

Readings

A Tasty Fruit - voice presentation poetry
The Birth of Light -- voice presentation fiction
Driver -- voice presentation poetry
Charlie's Dad-- voice presentation fiction



Image result for pictures of keaton otis


Arts & Culture
Visual Arts, Music,
Theatre,
Cartoons, Movies,
Books, Writing


Community Calendar

Local actions, events, rallies, etc.

Columns, Commentary, Critiques, News Bytes,
Letters, and more
!


Eyes Wide Shut!

by Yugen Fardan Rashad



King:

I Have a Dream. Obama:
I Have a Drone

By Norman Solomon

Munk's Musings

Picture of Michael Munk Tribune Photo L. E. Baskow
Stay Connected: Join the Alliance Mailing List!

NW Alliance for Alt. Media & Education

(NAAME) dba The Portland Alliance:

Questions, comments, or suggestions: editor@theportlandalliance.org

We Speak Truth to Power for the 99%

http://wordsmithcollection.blogspot.com/


Follow @ThePDXAlliance Contact us: Click Here!

Navigation: FrontPage / Activism / Interactive Calendar / Donate / Flyer / YouTube / Poster / Subscribe / Place AdAd Rates / Online Ads / Advertising / Twitter / News! / Previous Issues / Blog/ Myspace / Facebook1 / Facebook2

Features: Active Community / A Few Words /Arts & Culture / Breaking News / Jobs / / Labor History / Music /NewsBytes / Progressive Directory / Cartoons / Community Calendar /Letters / Poetry / Viewpoints & Commentary

Columns: William Beeman, Ellen Brown, Engelhardt / Dennis Kucinich / Michael Munk / MyersWilliam Reed / Mark Schwebke / Norman Solomon / Vorpahl / Wittner

Partners: AFD / AMA / B-MediaCollective / Bread&Roses / CAUSA/ CLG/ Common Dreams / CWA / DIA / FSP /ISO / Jobs w\ Justice / KBOO / Labor Radio / LGBTQ /MRG / Milagro / Mosaic / Move-On / NWLaborPress / OccupyOEA / Occupy PDX / Peace House / The 99% / Peace worker / PCASC / PPRC / Right 2 Dream TooStreet Roots / Skanner / The Nation / TruthOut / Urban League / VFP / Voz /

Topics: A-F AIPAC / Civil Rights / Coal / Death Penalty / Education / Election 2012 / Fair Trade / F-29 / Environment / Foreclosure /

Topics: G-R Health / Homeless / J-Street / Middle East / Occupy Blog / Peace / Persian / Police / Post Office/ Quotes

Topics
: S-Z STRIKE! / Tri-Met / Union / VDay / War & Peace / Women / Waterfront Blues Festival Writing / WritingResource

 


The Portland Alliance:  Phone: (Cell) (503)-697-1670
Production office: 2228 West Kent Ave. Missoula, MT 59801
Archives also at this address 

Questions, comments, suggestions: editor@theportlandalliance.org
or ThePortlandAlliance@gmail.com 

© 1981-2023 NAAME NW Alliance for Alternative Media & Education, dba The Portland Alliance:

All Rights Reserved. A 501C3 Oregon Non-profit Corporation for Public Benefit

Support local media:
B-MediaCollective / The Portland Alliance / Cover The Real News! /
Joe Anybody / The Asian Reporter | Kboo | Oregon Peaceworker | Portland.Indymedia.org | The Skanner