A federal judge this week ordered the Portland police department to stop using certain crowd control munitions as he suspended an officer accused of firing non-lethal rounds at demonstrators during a riot in June 2020. Officer Brent Taylor must be removed from all crowd control events pending an internal investigation, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Marco Hernandez wrote in a 7-page ruling in Don’t Shoot Portland et. al v. the city of Portland the Multnomah County. In addition, the Portland Police Bureau’s rapid response team’s top officers must undergo nine hours of training, all officers must complete a three-hour training regarding the use of force at protests, and no rapid response team grenadier shall use a less-lethal launcher in connection to crowd control until certain conditions are met. The case was brought last year by Don’t Shoot Portland and two individuals after alleging police officers “responded with indiscriminate, unchecked, and unconstitutional …