<p>A former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/portland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Portland</a> city commissioner who pushed to defund the police <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2023/09/21/jo-ann-hardesty-portlant-politics-oregon-lawsuit-hit-and-run-police-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will get</a> a $680,000 payout from the police over claims that cops leaked information falsely implicating her in a hit-and-run.</p>
<p>Jo Ann Hardesty was briefly falsely <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2021/03/16/portland-police-association-president-resigns-amid-leak-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">implicated</a> in a March 3, 2021, hit-and-run after a 911 caller mistakenly identified her as the driver of the vehicle that hit her.</p>
<p>Two Portland Police Bureau police officers allegedly <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2021/03/16/portland-police-association-president-resigns-amid-leak-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaked</a> the false implication of Hardesty to media outlets and others, but she was quickly cleared in the minor collision.</p>
<p>Hardesty, the first black woman to serve as a Portland city commissioner, then sued the city and the police in late 2021, claiming the alleged police leaks were racially and politically motivated.</p>
<p>Her lawsuit, which sought $5 million, was set to go to trial this month before the parties reached the massive $680,000 settlement. The payout <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2023/09/21/jo-ann-hardesty-portlant-politics-oregon-lawsuit-hit-and-run-police-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will come</a> from Portland&#8217;s police union and the two officers allegedly involved in the leak.</p>
<p>Hardesty said she hopes the settlement will prevent something like this from happening again.</p>
<p>“This settlement holds the Portland Police Association and the individuals accountable for their wrongful conduct and the unnecessary harm they caused,” Hardesty <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2023/09/21/jo-ann-hardesty-portlant-politics-oregon-lawsuit-hit-and-run-police-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Oregon Public Broadcasting.</p>
<p>“While this settlement does not make me whole, I’m hopeful that shining a light on this unfortunate situation will prevent others from having this burden brought upon them,” she said.</p>
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<p>The city previously <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/08/jo-ann-hardesty-settles-leak-lawsuit-against-portland-for-5000-and-written-apology.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settled</a> its part of Hardesty&#8217;s lawsuit in August for $5,000 and a written apology from Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.</p>
<p>At the time, the police leak also prompted Wheeler to launch an investigation into the leak&#8217;s origin.</p>
<p>Less than two weeks after the hit-and-run incident, the president of the Portland Police Association, Brian Hunzeker, resigned, the union <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/03/portland-police-union-president-resigns-over-serious-mistake-related-to-hit-run-report-that-named-commissioner-jo-ann-hardesty-in-error.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citing</a> his &#8220;serious, isolated mistake related to the Police Bureau’s investigation into the alleged hit-and-run by Commissioner Hardesty.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hardesty&#8217;s lawsuit had accused Hunzeker and another officer of being involved in the leak.</p>
<p>In 2020, Hardesty was on the front lines of the push to defund Portland&#8217;s police department during the riots following the murder of George Floyd. In Portland, the daily, often violent protests drew hundreds and stretched into October.</p>
<p>During the summer of 2020, Hardesty <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2020/10/20/portland-police-budget-jo-ann-hardesty-chloe-eudlay/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spearheaded</a> $15 million in cuts to the police budget. That fall, she pushed for the police department to lose million of dollars more.</p>
<p>Since then, Portland beefed up its police budget again after homicides ticked up and amid a police staffing shortage.</p>
<p>“I think people acknowledge that we’re at an inflection point in our city,” the mayor <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2023/05/17/portland-oregon-city-council-passes-7-billion-dollar-budget-city-fees-debate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> earlier this year as the city considered a budget with funding for dozens more cops. “Studies show people are choosing not to stay here. I see this as a critical moment in the city’s history that we should respond to.”</p>
<p>In July, 2020, Hardesty apologized for claiming that police &#8220;saboteurs&#8221; were infiltrating the protests and even starting fires.</p>
<p>Hardesty had said in an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=278967990045742&amp;ref=external" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online briefing</a> that, “I want people to know that I do not believe there’s any protesters in Portland that are setting fires, that are creating crisis. I absolutely believe it’s police action, and they’re sending saboteurs and provocateurs into peaceful crowds so they justify their inhumane treatment of people who are standing up for their rights.”</p>
<p>Hardesty, a firm progressive, ultimately <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/11/rene-gonzalez-with-law-and-order-focus-ousts-portland-commissioner-jo-ann-hardesty-in-contentious-city-council-race.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost her</a> reelection bid to another Democrat who ran as a law and order centrist.</p>

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