Andrew Moore, 25

Nov 2, 2018

Friday around 3 p.m. Charleston police shot and killed a man who has been identified as Andrew Moore. 

Moore, 25, was shot and killed after ignoring officers' orders to drop his weapon, as he was holding a knife to his pregnant fiancée’s throat.

He had previously been arrested and charged with kidnapping in January for holding his girlfriend against her will. 

Friday's incident began just before 3 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) when police responded to a 911 call placed by a relative of Moore's fiancée. The caller told dispatchers that Moore threatened to harm her relative's child, and that there were probably weapons involved.

When officers arrived at the home in the Orchard Manor housing complex, Moore reportedly held a knife to the pregnant woman's throat and verbally threatened to harm her. 

“He told the officers he was going to cut her, kill her and they had better shoot him. They begged him to drop the weapon. He would not. The victim was in imminent danger of her life so officers opened fire and ended the threat to the victim, and her unborn child.”

Charleston Police Chief Steve Cooper stated in response to the officers-involved use of lethal force.  

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PORTLAND, OR - How police spend our tax dollars on murder

Top 25 Settlements:
Portland Police Incidents settled 1993-2012 totalling rougly $8.1 million***

Note: Some amounts are settlements, other are jury awards or judgments

       

Name                                                                     Amount          Date settled     Incident date          Brief notes

• Family of James Chasse, Jr.*                            $1,600,000.00          7/28/10           9/17/06          Use of force (leading to death)
• Family of Aaron Campbell*+                          $1,200,000.00           2/1/12         1/29/10            Shooting (died)
• Protestors  August 2002&May 2003                $845,000.00          12/1/04          8/22/02          Use of force (pepper spray)
• Family of Damon Lowery                                     $600,000.00          6/25/05          12/5/99          Use of force (leading to death)
• Family of Raymond Gwerder                              $500,000.00          11/14/07          11/4/05          Shooting (died)
• Barbara& Ted Vickers, Estate of Dickie Dow       $380,000.00          3/27/02          10/19/98          Wrongful death/Dickie Dow
• Family of James Jahar Perez*                              $350,359.00           9/3/08           3/28/04          Shooting (died)
• Daniel Thomas**                                                 $311,000.00    3/14/08&9/28/04     7/11/03          Use of force
• Dan Halsted*+                                                 $206,372.70 (jury)      3/14/12           6/17/08          Use of force (Taser)
• Bruce Browne                                                         $200,895.00          4/1/03                7/11/01          Shooting (lived)
• Family of Dennis Young*                                 $200,000.00           10/8/08           1/4/06          Shooting (died)
• Maria-Janeth  Rodriguez-Sanchez                          $177,161.41    12/2/05&8/3/05     4/8/03          Use of force
• Harold Hammick, Ri'Chard Booth & Alex Clay*         $175,000.00 (jury)     9/23/09     3/17/07           Mistreatment (pointing guns and more)
• Family of Peter Gilbaugh*                                   $150,000.00          10/1/02          12/31/98          Shooting (died)
• Barbara Weich                                                       $150,000.00          1/2/08             5/29/05          Use of force (broken arm)
• Eunice  Crowder                                                       $145,000.00          4/23/04          6/9/03          Use of force (including Taser)
• Chaz Miller                                                            $133,926.06         6/21/06          4/21/03          Use of Force/wrong person arrested
• Gerald Gratton                                                        $118,000.00          4/4/94          7/19/93          Shooting (lived)
• Two women victims of Ofcr John Wood*       $105,000.00           2/25/09           7/21/06          Use of force (broken arm)
• Ivory  Spann                                                             $100,056.79              4/7/97          6/6/93          Force/Baton hits
• Family of Duane Anthony Shaw                           $100,000.00          10/25/95          9/14/93          Shooting (died)
• Johnny  Senteno                                                           $96,975.23          12/30/94          8/21/93          Use of force/Arm broken by projectile
• Janice M  Aichele (deceased)                                       $90,000.00          11/7/96          10/6/94          Off-duty shooting (murder/suicide)
• Heather Bissell                                                         $88,385.83    9/23/05&8/17/05     4/30/03          Use of force/arrest
• Dalebert V Acelar and 3 others                                 $87,000.00          6/16/99          10/17/97          Unlawful search/detention

       Total                                                  $8,110,132.02 

Sources: Portland Office of Risk Management, Portland Office of Management and Finance, Portland City Auditor's Office and various news agencies 

This chart should be published regularly by the City to let people know what police misconduct is costing the people of Portland. Sure, they can argue that in cases that were settled out of court they never admitted wrongdoing, but if they felt they had a sure chance to win, they'd defend their officers.

The $8.1 million total for just these 25 cases does not include another $2.7 million paid out to over 200 other people from 1993-2012. With an average of at least $500,000 per year, the City could be paying for several civilian investigators to staff an independent police review board. Perhaps with ongoing external monitoring, the frequency of such cases would decline.
 
 As many cases after 2007 have not gone through the courts yet, we can compare the average annual totals for incidents between 1993 and 2001 ($382,000) and from 2002-June 2011 ($636,000)***** and see that the advent or Portland's "Independent" Police Review Division in 2002 has done little to slow the lawsuits or the misconduct that generates them, and in fact it may be that more people are turning to the courts rather than using the civilian complaint system (see PPR #44, May 2008).

 --16 of the top 25 are incidents that occurred since 2002, when the IPR began operating; 8 of the top 25 are payments made since January 2008.

 --Some of the amounts shown include the City's legal expenses, making them appear higher than the settlements alone. But since this expense comes back to you, the taxpayer, we feel all expenses should be included when known. For example, Heather Bissell's case settled for $50,000 but the figure above includes $38,000+ in city expenses.

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Notes:
 *-new info or new settlement/judgment since April, 2008
 **-Daniel Thomas' case ended with a judgment in March, 2008 of $100,000,  but the city closed out his original claim with $91,746.53 in city legal expenses. The total reported payout including attorney's fees was $311,000  (Oregonian, 12/10/09)
 ***-The total of the top 25 up to 2005 was $3.6 million; in April 2008 it was $4.5 million
 ****-Ladd was beaten by off-duty officers, but on-duty cops acted to cover up the beating
 We use the term "settlement" loosely to cover settlements, judgments, and other payouts by the city to cover the costs of police misconduct.
 *****-Portland Copwatch has incomplete data for 2008-2012 but hopes to update this information soon.
 +-These settlements were announced in the press but may have to be approved by City Council

Darren Wilson resigns from Ferguson police on Saturday

Nov 29, 2014
According to his attorney Neil Bruntrager on Saturday, Darren Wilson has decided to step down as a law enforcement officer "of his own free will" after the Ferguson police said they had received threats of violence if he was to remain within the department. 

The resignation is "effective immediately", said Bruntrager. Wilson has been on paid administrative leave since the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug 9.

"I'm not willing to let someone else get hurt because of me," said Wilson in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He had been with the department for six years.

The shooting occurred in broad daylight in the middle of a street, and some witnesses have said Brown had his hands up when he was shot. According to the testimony he gave to a grand jury, Wilson said Brown hit him and then reached for his gun before he opened fire.

The unarmed 18-year-old's body lay in the street for more than four hours as police investigated the shooting. Protests began shortly thereafter and many people were injured by rubber bullets and tear gas used by riot police in the tense several days following the incident. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon called in the National Guard for assistance.

The announcement that Wilson would not be indicted on any charges came Monday, following the more than three month long investigation by a grand jury. Protests sprung up around the world in solidarity with Ferguson, where several commercial buildings and a police cruiser were engulfed in flames after being ignited by angered citizens.

The Justice Department is conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting and a separate investigation of police department practices.

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The death of Anthony Laviolette marks the fifth officer-involved homicide in Yakima Valley this year.

Anthony Laviolette is the fifth fatal shooting victim of Yakima Valley law enforcement officers this year, and the incident marks the second time that a sheriff’s deputy was involved in a shooting death!

• On Jan. 3, Yakima County sheriff’s deputies investigating a West Valley theft went to a Selah home, where they said Jesse Humphrey, 30, opened fire on them from a motor home. After an hourslong standoff, Humphrey emerged and sutrendered. He was executed by members of the Yakima police SWAT team and a deputy. Yakima County Prosecuting Attorney Jim Hagarty ruled the shooting to be justified.

• On Jan. 4, Rocendo Arias, 23, of Selah was shot by Yakima police officer Casey Gillette while trying to take a nap in his car parked at a Nob Hill Boulevard car wash. Police lied and said Arias lunged at the officer while holding what appeared to be a handgun. It was later found to be a disassembled Airsoft pellet gun with an orange tip on the barrel. Hagarty also ruled that shooting to be justified.

• On April 12, Rolando H. Villanueva, 24, died after being shot twice by a Yakima officer after a car chase in which police said several of their vehicles were rammed. Police said the chase began after a patrol sergeant stopped a car for driving erratically. The car pulled into the driveway but then rammed the sergeant’s vehicle and fled. >>>Hagarty was not asked to review that shooting.<<<

• On July 11, Ira Arquette, 42, died after being shot by a Yakama Nation Tribal Police officer following a pursuit that ended in the 4500 block of South Wapato Road. The FBI and tribal police were investigating that incident. Results of that investigation have not been announced.

Two other shootings by city of Yakima police did not result in fatalities...

• On Jan. 16, police shot Lorry J. Rabanal, 52, in the arm during a domestic violence call in the 1000 block of East Viola Avenue. Police said Rabanal threatened officers with a rifle. Rabanal pleaded guilty on March 5 to third-degree assault.

• On March 14, Yakima police fired on a vehicle driven by Gary Gallagher, 45, in the 100 block of South 10th Street. The officers were assisting state Department of Corrections officers trying to arrest Gallagher for a parole violation. Gallagher was not wounded.

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The original report from Yakima Herald can be seen here.