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Pressure on Board of Trustees to disarm campus police increases

October 19, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

PSU Vanguard

By Chris May

October 10, 2018

A general assembly of students voted to disband the occupation after Portland State’s Board of Trustees Oct. 4 meeting. The decision came after 10 days of occupying PSU Campus Public Safety office and shortly after participating in over three hours of public comment and testimony at the Board of Trustees meeting.

The occupation site was all but deserted even before the decision, as the occupiers joined other students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members in the Lincoln Performance Hall for the first PSU Board of Trustees meeting since the death of Jason Washington at the hands of campus police officers Shawn McKenzie and James Dewey. Both the venue and agenda were changed to allow increased participation and extended public comment on Washington’s death and campus public safety policy.

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