Small Oregon town fires police chief, fueling ongoing feud and attempt to recall city officials - oregonlive.com
Small Oregon town fires police chief, fueling ongoing feud and attempt to recall city officials - oregonlive.com
The Gervais City Council voted Feb. 20 to fire Mark Chase, the second time in less than eight years that an Oregon city had fired him as police chief.
The independent investigator, southern Oregon attorney David Groff, also reported that Chase had favored some officers over others, made inappropriate sexual comments during a pat down and a training exercise, accused an officer of going easy on migrant workers because she was, in his words, “Hispanic too,” and allegedly told an officer that if he ever shoots a suspect to “put five more in him so he’s gone.”
I lived in Salem and visited the small towns between Portland/Salem.
It's backwaters AF. Pro-Trump, people who were really angry that a dude bend the knee at a sports game.
Oregon is just a microcosm of the rest of the U.S., empty land being hard red while dense urban centers are firmly blue. Malhuer county is bigger then Delaware, Connecticut, and Rhode Island combined but has 30k population... and went about 70% Trump in 2020.