Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized A screengrab from Salem’s Community Police Review Board at its Jan. 12 meeting. As Salem considers the efficacy of its police review board, one solution may lie an hour’s drive south. Racial justice protests last summer sparked a renewed public focus across the U.S. on holding police more publicly accountable[Read More…]
Uncategorized Marion County Courthouse. As Oregon legislators consider scaling back a tough-on-crime law passed in 1994, the Oregon District Attorneys Association hopes to rally the public against the changes. Passed by voters during a crime wave in the 1990s, Measure 11 imposes mandatory minimum sentencing for several violent crimes that cannot[Read More…]
Businesses along Court Street N.E. remain boarded up in downtown Salem following unrest in January. (Jake Thomas/Salem Reporter) As Inauguration Day approached, Salem worried. A week before Joe Biden was to be sworn-in as president, an FBI memo emerged that said armed protesters questioning the election’s legitimacy would descend on[Read More…]
Uncategorized A woman uses a megaphone to talk to police after an unlawful assembly was declared at the Oregon State Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Ahead of an anticipated protest at the Oregon State Capitol on Wednesday, Oregon’s law enforcement agencies say they’re coordinating and prepared to respond[Read More…]
Uncategorized Heavy blocks provide new security at the Capitol on Saturday, Jan. 16. State officials took precautions ahead of warnings from the FBI of possible protests at capitols across the country. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) The Capitol, the scene of repeated protests in recent months, is safeguarded against potential violence in the[Read More…]
The Oregon Capitol building’s windows were boarded up in anticipation of expected protests leading up to the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Salem police expect protests in Oregon’s capital city next week in the run-up to the inauguration of president-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday. But as of[Read More…]
Far-right protesters hold up an American flag outside of Mahonia Hall in southeast Salem as part of a demonstration opposing Covid restrictions on Friday, Jan. 1. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem and other state capitols across the country could see more armed protests starting Saturday, according to an FBI memo that[Read More…]
Uncategorized A Salem man has been charged with murder in the death of a Salem woman this week. Matthew Brian Hansen, 29, was arrested Wednesday and charged with second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon after Amanda Mankins, 32, was found shot in a northeast Salem home Wednesday, police said[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem police are investigating a homicide after finding a woman shot in her northeast Salem home Wednesday. Around 1:20 a.m. on Jan. 6, officers responded to a welfare check in the 1100 block of Northeast Norway Avenue, according to a news release. When they arrived, they found Amanda Marie Mankins,[Read More…]
Uncategorized Right-wing and left-wing demonstrators faced off at the Oregon State Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, shortly before an unlawful assembly was declared. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) As supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, Oregon’s Capitol saw its own share of trouble during a demonstration supporting the effort[Read More…]
