Portland shooting suspect killed by police

The BBC is reporting that Michael Reinoehl, the suspect in the shooting of right wing counter-protester Aaron Danielson, has been shot and killed by Portland police [edit] in Lacey, Washington.

Lieutenant Brady said the police were conducting surveillance when the suspect left the apartment and got into a vehicle in the road.

"There was a confrontation between the officers that were on scene and the subject," he said.

"The information we have at this time is that the subject was armed. There were shots that were fired into the vehicle and the subject fled from the vehicle, at which time there was additional shots that were fired."

He said four officers fired their weapons.

This just becomes a tragic, self-fulfilling vicious circle. Suspect doesn’t surrender, because they believe they will be killed if they do. So the police find and kill the suspect. So the message is reinforced to future suspects that they will be killed.

The cycle of violence has got to be broken. And that can only happen with fundamental reform of the police.