Kate Brown (D) had directed the Oregon State Police to have its Mobile Response Team on standby.
The Rapid Response Team was described as an “all-hazard incident response team,†with members trained in advanced skills related to crowd management and crowd control.On Friday, the police union described the resignation as a response to the fraught relationship between the department and the city government, saying, “When elected officials turned nightly violence into political banter for their own personal agendas, those politicized actions put Rapid Response Team members and public safety at risk.The disbanding of Portland’s Rapid Response Team bears similarities to a 2020 incident in which 57 members of the Buffalo Police Department’s Emergency Response Team resigned following the suspension of two officers who were filmed shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground.