Portland Commissioner Rene Gonzalez called 911 to report ‘light assault’ after encounter on MAX train

Rene Gonzalez

“She bumped me twice," Portland Commissioner Rene Gonzalez told a 911 dispatcher after a woman jostled him on a MAX train in January. "I’m a public figure. She came up from behind. I don’t think it’s an accident.”Mark Graves/The Oregonian

Portland Commissioner Rene Gonzalez placed an emergency call to 911 minutes after a woman jostled him aboard a MAX train, a recording shows.

“911, what’s the emergency?” a dispatcher asks in the previously unreleased recording obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive through a public records request.

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