The AMA Coalition for Justice and Police Reform is working toward these five
goals:
1. A federal investigation by the Justice Department to include criminal and civil rights violations, as well as a federal audit of patterns and practices of the Portland Police Bureau.
2. Strengthening the Independent Police Review Division and the Citizen Review Committee with the goal of adding power to compel testimony.
3. A full review of the Bureau's excessive force and deadly force policies and training with diverse citizen participation for the purpose of making recommendations to change policies and training.
4. The Oregon State Legislature narrowing the language of the State statute for deadly force used by police officers.
5. Establishing a special prosecutor for police excessive force and deadly force cases.

The AMA Coalition for Justice and Police Reform follows these three principles:
--Embrace the five goals.
--Accept the principles of non-violent direct action as enunciated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
--Work as a team in concert to achieve the goals.

AMA Coalition for Justice and Police Reform Actions

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March-April, 2012:

CALL TO ACTION!

PICKET LINE AND NEWS CONFERENCE FOR AARON CAMPBELL 11:30 AM Monday, April 2, 2012

Portland City Hall, SW 4th and Madison

The Arbitration regarding the shooting of Aaron Campbell has concluded with the recommended reinstatement of Officer Ron Frashour

to the Portland Police Bureau.

As noted previously, the AMA has a call to action in response:

On Monday, April 2, people should meet at 11:30 AM on the 4th Ave side of City Hall (between Madison and Jeffeson) for a picket line and news

conference. (The news conference will begin at noon.)

Please spread the word.

Here is some background information:

On Monday, April 2, the Albina Ministerial Alliance (AMA) Coalition for Justice and Police Reform will hold a picket line and news conference to protest the State Arbitrator's decision to reinstate Officer Ron Frashour to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB). Frashour shot the unarmed Aaron Campbell in the back in January, 2010 and was fired later that year. 

The reinstatement of Frashour is another in a long line of arbitration overturning firings of officers who wrongfully use deadly force, or otherwise take actions often targeted at communities of color.

--Officer Scott McCollister, who was suspended for six months after shooting and killing African American Kendra James in 2003, was reinstated with back pay;

--Officer Douglas Erickson, who shot and wounded African American Gerald Gratton in the back in 1993, was reinstated;

--Officers Richard Montee and Paul Wickersham, fired for selling T-Shirts reading "Don't Choke 'Em, Smoke 'Em" after an officer choked African American security guard Lloyd "Tony" Stevenson in 1985, were reinstated;

--Officers Craig Ward and Jim Galloway, fired for tossing dead opossums on the porch of a black-owned business in 1981, were reinstated;

and

--In one case where the victim, Dennis Young, was white, Lt. Jeffrey Kaer was reinstated after being fired for shooting and killing Young in 2006.

The apparent racial bias of the arbitration system comes in the midst of a national debate on racial profiling, sparked by the shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida. Like Keaton Otis, an African American man shot and killed by Portland Police less than four months after Campbell, Martin was deemed suspicious for wearing a hoodie.

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March, 2012:

AMA Coalition Candidates Forum
Public Event
AMA Coalition for Justice & Police Reform

Thursday, March 1, 2012
6:00pm until 8:30pm
June Key Delta Community Center
5940 N. Albina Ave., Portland, OR

AMA Coalition members have confirmed candidates for Mayor, City Council, Attorney General & District Attorney For more information email joannhardesty@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/events/106496429474365/

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February, 2012:

U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO HOLD TOWN FORUM FEB. 28 ON PORTLAND POLICE USE OF FORCE
Published: Friday, February 10, 2012, 10:21 AM
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/02/us_justice_dept_to_hold_town_f.html

Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice will be in town later this month to seek community input on Portland police use of force as they continue a federal civil rights inquiry to determine if the police bureau engages in a pattern or practice of excessive force. The town hall is scheduled for
Tuesday Feb. 28
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
the St. John's Community Center, 8427 N. Central St.

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AMA Coalition Speak Out on Portland Police Bureau
Public Event

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/289799657735424/

Flyer:  http://albinaministerialcoalition.org/AMA_Speak_Out_DOJ_0202.pdf

Date: Saturday, February 11, 2012
Time: 12:00pm until 3:00pm

Description:
        The AMA Coalition for Justice and Police Reform will host a community speak out to hear directly from community members regarding their experiences with Portland Police. This information will be shared with the US Dept. of Justice as they continue to audit the patterns and practices of Portland Police.

      The AMA Coalition embraces the principles of nonviolence and is seeking community input to improve the interactions between community members and Portland Police officers.

Location: PCC Cascade Campus Moriarty Hall
        705 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR 97217
Info: Email joannhardesty@gmail.com

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January-March, 2012:


CALL TO ACTION!
NEWS CONFERENCE AND PICKET LINE FOR
AARON CAMPBELL AND KEATON OTIS

11:30 AM on the Days After News Breaks

Supporters of the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform:

The AMA Coalition is calling for the community to come together for two emergency actions that
may be protests or celebrations. In the next few weeks, we should be getting news about:

--Whether the Police Bureau will find the officers who shot and killed Keaton Otis in May, 2010
violated any policies when they shot him 23 times, after punching him in the face and Tasering
him, and before shooting his mortally wounded body with "beanbags" and leaving him lying on the
ground;

--Whether a state arbitrator will uphold the City's firing of Officer Ron Frashour, who killed
Aaron Campbell with an assault rifle shot to the back in January, 2010.

The day after the announcement,* people should meet at 11:30 AM on the 4th Ave side of City
Hall for a news conference and picket line--- though the message may be different if either
incident ends with positive news for those of us who beleive in accountability. Clearly, if the
officers who shot Otis and Campbell are found out of policy and are disciplined, the picket
line will be more of a celebration than a protest.

*NOTE: If the announcement comes out on the day before a holiday or a weekend, the news
conference and picket line will be held on the next regular weekday; that is, if the
announcement is on a Friday, the AMA action will be on the next Monday.

For more information contact the AMA Coalition via Chair Pastor LeRoy Haynes, 503-287-0261 or
email chair@albinaministerialcoalition.org