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Four Months Into a Police Leak Investigation, Still No Answers

Officer Brian Hunzeker has been on paid administrative leave since May 27.

DSC07064 Police guard the entrance to a downtown Portland parking garage, near where a man was shot to death on Aug. 29, 2020. (Alex Wittwer)

120 DAYS: That’s how long ago 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 [Portland] 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 has been on paid administrative leave since May 27.

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

119 DAYS: That’s how long it’s been since the city signed a contract with an outside investigative firm to probe the leak.

Tess Riski

Tess Riski covers cops, courts, protests and extremism. She joined Willamette Week in 2020.