Several Portland City Council members pointedly questioned Police Chief Bob Day Thursday as they approved a $3.75 million settlement with the family of an unarmed man shot and killed by an officer who mistook him for a robbery suspect.

They wanted to know why Day did not agree with an internal investigator who found Officer Christopher Sathoff had violated police policy in the 2022 shooting of 30-year-old Immanueal Clark.

They asked why it took more than 20 minutes to get medical help for Clark.

Day repeated what he has said before – he described Clark’s death as a tragedy and said he relied on the findings of the officer’s commander and top Police Bureau officials who found that Sathoff believed Clark was armed and reaching for a gun. He said Clark’s death “should anger us” and i

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