Jami Resch, who is white, said she asked Chuck Lovell to take her place as chief and called him 'the exact right person at the exact right moment.'
Portland Police Bureau Chief Jami Resch on Monday announced she was stepping down from her position amid protests against police brutality, marking the end of her tenure as the bureau’s chief after six months.
."It was a shock for me, I’ll be honest. But when your boss comes to you and she says, ‘The community needs you. The police bureau needs you.’ To me, I felt like it’s not the time to shrink and back down." Still, the ACLU of Oregon on Sunday released a statement calling the Portland Police Bureau’s response to protesters ““The role of police is to facilitate, not disperse, peaceful protest,” the organization wrote in a statement. “But in Portland for the last several years, the police consistently approach people gathered to protest against the police and white supremacy with intimidation and excessive force.
“I am asking the members of the Portland Police Bureau, please trust me,” she said Monday. “This is the right thing to do. And I’m asking the community to please trust that this comes from my heart.”
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