



3:40 p.m.: Rodrick Jackson, Aaron Campbell's brother, marched this afternoon with Campbell's family and friends. He said it "feels good to see that people have come out" in support of Campbell.



"Police are the people who we're supposed to look up to, they're the authority," Jackson said as the crowd marched up Broadway throught the shadow of the Heathman Hotel. "I want to see them stop taking advantage of it."



3:30 p.m. As the marchers turned off Broadway and into Portland State University, Jim McCandlish, an attorney for the family of Aaron Campbell, declined to comment about what the family hopes to hear from Attorney General John Kroger, who is expected to speak to speak at Portland State University at 5 p.m. to the crowd.



“The family really appreciates the support they’re getting from the community. Justice will be done,” said McCandlish.



3:35 p.m. Protesters are marching south on Broadway, chanting on the way to Portland State University. The crowd appears to have grown closer to 400.



3:15 p.m. About 250 have gathered in Pioneer Courthouse Square for a rally to protest the Jan. 29 fatal police shooting of an unarmed man and to urge the Oregon attorney general to launch an investigation The rally is to be followed by a march up Southwest Broadway to Portland State University.



Attorney General John Kroger is meeting with community members at PSU to discuss what should be on the agenda for the state's new Civil Rights Unit Division.



The rally is the second public gathering this week, in response to a grand jury decision clearing the officer involved of wrongdoing. About 300 people marched on Wednesday from the Justice Center to City Hall, where they confronted Mayor Sam Adams.



A grand jury last week returned a "no true bill,'' or no indictment against Portland Officer Ronald Frashour, who fired one shot from his AR-15 rifle at Arron Campbell, 25, striking him in the back in the parking lot of the Sandy Terrace Apartment.

More The Oregonian's full coverage of the death of Aaron Campbell.

Campbell died at the scene.



Police were called to the apartments on a welfare check of a woman, her three young children and Campbell, the woman's suicidal boyfriend. He was distraught over the death of his brother earlier that day.



Frashour told investigators he thought Campbell was reaching for a gun in his back waistband. Moments earlier, Officer Ryan Lewton had struck Campbell, who had his hands behind his head, with beanbag rounds when he failed to put his hands in the air. Campbell did not have a gun on him; one was found later in his girlfriend's apartment.



But the jury blamed the lack of police command and communication among officers for Campbelll's death, and said it held the Portland Police Bureau responsible for his death. About 30 witnesses testified. Transcripts from the grand jury proceeding were released Thursday.





3:05 p.m. Gina Lawrence, a friend of the Campbell family, stood in Pioneer Square with a sign reading "We are the Campbell family."



She said she thought Portland Police Officer Ron Frashour acted too swiftly in firing his AR15 rifle at Campbell's back the night of Jan. 29th.



"I think the police officer just took matters into his own hands," Lawrence said. "You don't take a person's life for granted like that. Once you've taken a life, you can't give it back."



She said police should have waited to see if other methods, such as beanbags and police dogs could have subdued Campbell.



Lawrence also commiserated with Campbell's mother, Marva Davis.



Davis "had just lost her other son that morning from a heart condition," she said. "And then news cam the her other son was killed. It just about killed her. I don't think I could bear it."



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Gina Lawrence, a friend of the Campbell family, stood in Pioneer Square with a sign reading "We are the Campbell family."She said she thought Portland Police Officer Ron Frashour acted too swiftly in firing his AR15 rifle at Campbell's back the night of Jan. 29th."I think the police officer just took matters into his own hands," Lawrence said. "You don't take a person's life for granted like that. Once you've taken a life, you can't give it back."She said police should have waited to see if other methods, such as beanbags and police dogs could have subdued Campbell.Lawrence also commiserated with Campbell's mother, Marva Davis.Davis "had just lost her other son that morning from a heart condition," she said. "And then news cam the her other son was killed. It just about killed her. I don't think I could bear it."-- Helen Jung and Michael Russell