"On the Murder of Rickey Johnson": the Portland Police Bureau, Deadly Force, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1940 - 1975
On March 14, 1975, twenty-eight year old Portland Police Officer Kenneth Sanford shot and killed seventeen-year-old Rickie Charles Johnson in the back of the head during a sting operation. Incredulously, Johnson was the fourth person of color to be shot and killed by Portland police within a five-mo...
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PDXScholar
2018
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| Online Access: | https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4434 https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5505&context=open_access_etds |