The Actions of Officer Brian Hunzeker Remain a Mystery, 57 Days Later

We’re still counting how long it takes to find the source of a police leak.

11-4-2020 _ 43 Police respond to rioting in downtown Portland on Nov. 4. (Chris Nesseth)
By Tess Riski

57 DAYS: That’s the number of days since Officer Brian Hunzeker resigned from his role as president of the Portland Police Association due to what the union described as a “serious, isolated mistake related to the Police Bureau’s investigation into the alleged hit-and-run by Commissioner [Jo Ann] Hardesty.”

We still don’t know what he did. The mayor’s office says it doesn’t know what he did. Hunzeker is still working patrol in the North Precinct.

68 DAYS: That’s how long it’s been since the Portland Police Bureau opened an internal affairs investigation into the leaking of information that wrongly implicated City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty in a March 3 hit-and-run crash. It has released no results of its inquiry.

56 DAYS: That’s how long it’s been since the city inked a contract to hire an outside investigative firm to probe the leak.

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