ARRESTING POWER-Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon

Kala Art Institute is proud to premiere the new film, Arresting Power. Portland-based filmmakers Jodi Darby, Julie Perini, and Erin Yanke will be present for Q&A following the screening.

Arresting Power - Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon provides a historical and political analysis of the role of the police in contemporary society and the history of policing in the United States. It provides a framework for understanding the systems of social control in Portland with its history of exclusion laws, racial profiling, gentrification practices and policing along lines of race and class. It serves to uncover Portland’s unique history of police relations and community response.

Arresting Power features interviews with the families of people who were killed by Portland police, victims of police misconduct, local historians and community organizers. Utilizing archival newsreel from the Oregon Historical Society’s moving image archive, the film explores the history of police reform and abolition movements that have been active throughout the past 50 years.