Heady Writing From the Streets of Eugene, Oregon
“Integrity. Compassion. Courage.” The three core values of the Eugene Police Department have, once again, been proven moot by its latest scandal, which, so far, has led to former Officer Martin Siller’s abrupt resignation...
The Eugene City Council met for its regular session on May 11 and, expectedly, the recent release of former Eugene Police Department Officer Martin Siller’s bodycam footage featuring racist and derogatory language during a...
The Grantsville City Police Department in Utah has launched an investigation following the resignation of former Eugene Police Officer Martin Siller after his use of racist and derogatory speech on bodycam footage was released...
The fence around the Old Federal Building is coming soon, and barriers have been set up, forming a makeshift sidewalk in anticipation of the fence’s arrival. On Feb. 12, the monthly Eugene Police Commission...
Editor’s Note: 2/19/2026 9:35 AM: The article has been updated to include the EPD’s decline to comment. On Feb. 17, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Portland office released three wanted posters for individuals who...
Community members across Lane County have been peacefully protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s presence in the region since last July. In doing so, people have gathered daily at the Old Federal Building downtown and...
A federal judge has handed a win for Black Unity nearly six years after the events of July 29, 2020—otherwise known by many in the local activist community as “J29” or “Thurston”—and five years after the protest group’s lawsuit against the City of Springfield, Oregon and the Springfield Police Department was filed.
On the evening of Jan. 27, Department of Homeland Security officers exited the Old Federal Building in Downtown Eugene and violently surged hundreds of people—including elders and minors—attending an Oregon Nurses Association-organized candlelight vigil for slain Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti with flashbangs, PepperBalls, FN303 rounds, and tear gas.
Yesterday, Aug. 28, more than a dozen press organizations sent a letter to Mayor Kaarin Knudson and Eugene Police Department’s Chief Chris Skinner admonishing Public Information Program Coordinator Michael Rea’s use of press markers...
DSM, concerned by the EPD’s cosplay as members of the press, spoke to journalism experts who all agreed that this is bad.
