A judge has tossed a $2 million wrongful death lawsuit that claimed Portland police conducted a shoddy investigation into a dangerous man — allowing him to be freed from jail and then murder a homeless stranger the next day.
In a ruling issued last week, Multnomah County Circuit Judge Eric Dahlin sided with the city, which argued police didn’t make the decision to release 20-year-old Kalil Ford, a judge did. What’s more, the city contended, police couldn’t have foreseen that Ford would go on to murder 53-year-old Mark Anthony Davis within a day of being allowed to walk the streets again.
The facts of the case are as follows:…