City Council voted Wednesday to add back $5.2M of the $15M it cut last year
The ‘defund the police’ budget slash got rid of school and transit officers
Portland broke 66 homicides this year, the highest number since 1987
City officials are considering bringing back retired cops amid a staff shortage
Other cities, like LA and NYC, are also adding money back into police coffers
Portland saw heavy protests last year. Above, a pedestrian walks past a boarded-up Apple Store that was covered in Black Lives Matter street art in downtown Portland in July 2020
Stacy (left) was arrested by police in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday evening after Evans, 32, (top right with Stacy) pleaded for help in tracking her ex down who she suspected was being hidden by his friends. The former fifth round pick faces two felony charges of aggravated battery and criminal mischief, according to an affidavit. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison. Police said Stacy ‘struck [Evans] on the right side of her head, and picked her up and threw her against the television (main), causing it to crack and fall over … He continued yelling at her and striking her while she got up from the floor, and picked her up again and threw her into the baby’s bouncy chair.’ Evans claimed in a restraining order filed on Monday that Stacy has been abusing her since she was pregnant with her son, saying that the attacks were escalating and that ‘he will kill me.’ Photos from an alleged incident in August (bottom right) show cuts and bruises all over her body after what she says was an argument over rent money. In the document, Evans writes: ‘[Stacy] has escalated violence since May while I was pregnant. He also assaulted me just weeks before our son was born. He will not stop. He will kill me and he feels justified in his actions.’
PA Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 38 