Posted on Sep 17, 2022
Records imply Portland police slow-walked high profile homicide case
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Portland police quickly obtained key evidence in the 2019 killing of anti-fascist Sean Kealiher, but waited more than two years to arrest the suspect, according to investigative file documents obtained by OPB.
For more than two years, the Portland Police Bureau has insisted its detectives diligently investigated the 2019 killing of a well-known anti-fascist activist.
Those claims now appear shakier than ever.
New records obtained by OPB through a public records appeal show police collected significant evidence at the scene of the crime that pointed to a clear suspect just days after the homicide.
Portland police spoke to the main suspect, Christopher Knipe, in the days after the killing of Sean Kealiher. They also had likely obtained surveillance footage implicating Knipe more than two years before officers arrested him on Aug. 4.
For more than two years, the Portland Police Bureau has insisted its detectives diligently investigated the 2019 killing of a well-known anti-fascist activist.
Those claims now appear shakier than ever.
New records obtained by OPB through a public records appeal show police collected significant evidence at the scene of the crime that pointed to a clear suspect just days after the homicide.
Portland police spoke to the main suspect, Christopher Knipe, in the days after the killing of Sean Kealiher. They also had likely obtained surveillance footage implicating Knipe more than two years before officers arrested him on Aug. 4.
Records imply Portland police slow-walked high profile homicide case
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."The 2019 phone call with Knipe also stands in contrast to how police interacted with Kealiher’s two friends, who were with him and took Kealiher to the hospital after he was run over. The two had previously told OPB that detectives brought them into Central Precinct for questioning on the night of the killing.
“I certainly felt like I was a suspect,” said Christopher Aulerich, who performed CPR on Kealiher the night he died “It wasn’t a buddy meeting with a cop.”
Knipe initially told detectives his car had been stolen the night of the incident, according to a probable cause affidavit for his arrest. That document also says that security camera footage shows Knipe driving the Ford Explorer away from Kealiher and his two friends, then turning around and accelerating back toward them and running over Kealiher. According to prosecutors, the footage also allegedly shows Knipe and Caudle “nonchalantly walking away from the crash.”
The newly released records say officers spent time gathering security camera footage on Oct. 15, 2019, and Oct 18, 2019, suggesting detectives had video evidence for more than two years showing Knipe at the scene of the crime before they arrested him. Business owners in the area spoke to OPB in 2021 and confirmed that police had sought and received surveillance footage at the time of the crime.
Over the ensuing weeks and months, records indicate, detectives collected and analyzed fingerprints taken from the Ford Explorer and interviewed witnesses. According to the newly released records, most of the investigation appears to have stopped around February 2020 and didn’t resume again until June 2022 when police again interviewed Knipe.
OPB and The Intercept, another media organization, were both engaged in legal action against Portland to release details of the investigation, and the cases were coming to a head around the time police revisited Knipe on June 28.
In July, days after OPB filed an appeal seeking the records, police interviewed a new witness in the homicide, Morgan Knoke, one of Knipe’s former coworkers and Kealiher’s friend. Knoke was first located and interviewed by OPB. That interview was published in November 2021, roughly eight months before police spoke to Knoke."
..."The 2019 phone call with Knipe also stands in contrast to how police interacted with Kealiher’s two friends, who were with him and took Kealiher to the hospital after he was run over. The two had previously told OPB that detectives brought them into Central Precinct for questioning on the night of the killing.
“I certainly felt like I was a suspect,” said Christopher Aulerich, who performed CPR on Kealiher the night he died “It wasn’t a buddy meeting with a cop.”
Knipe initially told detectives his car had been stolen the night of the incident, according to a probable cause affidavit for his arrest. That document also says that security camera footage shows Knipe driving the Ford Explorer away from Kealiher and his two friends, then turning around and accelerating back toward them and running over Kealiher. According to prosecutors, the footage also allegedly shows Knipe and Caudle “nonchalantly walking away from the crash.”
The newly released records say officers spent time gathering security camera footage on Oct. 15, 2019, and Oct 18, 2019, suggesting detectives had video evidence for more than two years showing Knipe at the scene of the crime before they arrested him. Business owners in the area spoke to OPB in 2021 and confirmed that police had sought and received surveillance footage at the time of the crime.
Over the ensuing weeks and months, records indicate, detectives collected and analyzed fingerprints taken from the Ford Explorer and interviewed witnesses. According to the newly released records, most of the investigation appears to have stopped around February 2020 and didn’t resume again until June 2022 when police again interviewed Knipe.
OPB and The Intercept, another media organization, were both engaged in legal action against Portland to release details of the investigation, and the cases were coming to a head around the time police revisited Knipe on June 28.
In July, days after OPB filed an appeal seeking the records, police interviewed a new witness in the homicide, Morgan Knoke, one of Knipe’s former coworkers and Kealiher’s friend. Knoke was first located and interviewed by OPB. That interview was published in November 2021, roughly eight months before police spoke to Knoke."
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When did 'antifascist' become a title?
For that matter, who among the patriotic American citizenry isn't opposed to fascism in practice or in name? The same should also be applied to Communism and militant Socialism. All three of these political movements are antithetical to to the nation as originally envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
Among other things that true patriots would naturally be against would be:
1) The use of Federal Law Enforcement as a quazi-secret political paramilitary force.
2) The weaponization of Executive Branch Agencies including the DOJ.
3) The purging of the armed forces and agencies of all dissent.
4) Use of warrants in a manner for which they were not intended.
5) Governmentally supported wholesale violations of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 26th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
For that matter, who among the patriotic American citizenry isn't opposed to fascism in practice or in name? The same should also be applied to Communism and militant Socialism. All three of these political movements are antithetical to to the nation as originally envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
Among other things that true patriots would naturally be against would be:
1) The use of Federal Law Enforcement as a quazi-secret political paramilitary force.
2) The weaponization of Executive Branch Agencies including the DOJ.
3) The purging of the armed forces and agencies of all dissent.
4) Use of warrants in a manner for which they were not intended.
5) Governmentally supported wholesale violations of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 26th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
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