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Posted on 01/18/2026 6:15:18 AM PST by DFG
After weeks of mounting backlash and public outrage, the Salem City Council voted to remove Kyle Hedquist — a man convicted of murdering a teenager — from boards advising the Oregon city’s police and fire departments, undoing a controversial reappointment approved just weeks earlier.
The council voted 6 to 2 during a special meeting to revoke Hedquist’s appointments to the Community Police Review Board and the Civil Service Commission, according to the Salem Statesman Journal.
The decision overturned a narrow 5-to-4 vote on Dec. 8 that reappointed Hedquist to multiple public safety-related boards despite a recommendation from the Boards and Commissions Appointments Committee to leave the police review board position vacant.
Hedquist was convicted in 1995 of murdering 19-year-old Nikki Thrasher. He later said he feared Thrasher would report him to police for hiding stolen property at her home.
Hedquist served nearly 28 years in prison before then-Gov. Kate Brown commuted his sentence, citing rehabilitation and good behavior.
Since his release, Hedquist became a policy associate for the Oregon Justice Resource Center and advocated for criminal justice reform at the Oregon Legislature.
He told the Statesman Journal he joined Salem’s advisory boards to continue serving his community.
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DEMOCRATS are beyond STUPID...THEY ARE PURE EVIL.
OMG, it wasn’t a traffic ticket, it was murder! Horrible.
Oh but he feels the criminals pain and knows how bad the feel. /s/
They had to have the national spotlight beaming into their faces before they were shamed into doing the right/ logical thing. If this had remained a local event, their ‘Favorite Convicted Murderer” would still be in his spot.
Republicans are the stupid party, Democrats are the evil party.
“Reverses Vote”......A sign of elected officials that are agenda driven, and not representing their constituents. (Until they jump sharks)
Who are the nitwits that approved this convicted animal in the f instance? Pathetic LIB losers...
They do not name the 2 councillors who voted AGAINST HIS REMOVAL?
About forty or fifty years ago Oregon was an extremely beautiful low-population place.
Now it’s an insane asylum.
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The corrected version:
lol!
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