The Killing of a Portland Antifascist Activist Went Unsolved, Then Journalists Sued the City
Three years after Sean Kealiher was killed, police arrested a suspect, just as The Intercept’s public records lawsuit neared a ruling.
16 August 2022
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Three years after Sean Kealiher was killed, police arrested a suspect, just as The Intercept’s public records lawsuit neared a ruling.
16 August 2022
For months after her son’s killing, Laura Kealiher waited for the results of a police investigation. The case seemed an easy one: Sean Kealiher, a 23-year-old antifascist well known in Portland’s protest scene and to police, was run over by a car following an argument outside a bar popular with leftist activists. As he bled on the sidewalk, the people in the car left on foot, leaving the vehicle behind. Surveillance cameras captured much of the incident. That was October 2019. More than a year later, as Portland had become the epicenter of a national protest movement following the police ...
The Killing of a Portland Antifascist Activist Went Unsolved. Then Journalists Sued the City.
Three years after Sean Kealiher was killed, police arrested a suspect, just as The Intercept’s public records lawsuit neared a ruling.
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