Protesters: Portland officer shouldn’t come back

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A group protesting an arbitrator’s ruling in favor of rehiring Portland police officer says the officer should leave town.

The protesters affiliated with the Albina Ministerial Alliance say the city is a “powder keg.”

Officer Ronald Frashour was fired in 2010 after shooting 25-year-old Aaron Campbell in the back. Campbell was fleeing. Frashour said he thought Campbell was going for a weapon.

The arbitrator ruled Friday that Frashour followed his training and the city didn’t have cause to dismiss him.

At a City Hall protest Monday, the Rev. LeRoy Haynes compared the shooting to that of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida.

Haynes says the arbitration system is biased in favor of the police and should be reviewed.