Tom Potter will face his racial profiling committee tomorrow afternoon, and the meeting could be a little tense:

1.Potter is currently at loggerheads with his Police Chief, Rosie Sizer, over whether to fire a lieutenant (he wants to, she doesn’t).

2.Even before seeking to fire one of his officers, Potter was growing increasingly unpopular with the Portland Police Association—the union’s boss, Robert King wrote a scathing letter to the Oregonian in January after Potter failed to praise the Police Bureau in his State of the City speech. Since then, King has softened the Union’s line on racial profiling, but is unlikely to give the mayor an easy time on the issue in tomorrow’s meeting.

3.The committee has had trouble finding a direction—at last month’s fourth session, members of the group were still passing around a bean bag to introduce themselves and their agendas. They are still trying to agree, for example, on a way of voting on their resolutions. Despite this, the group is expected to deliver a progress report by the end of this year, and some on the committee look to be growing impatient. Meanwhile, stories like this one keep surfacing.

That’s all not to mention that Potter is likely to be crushingly defeated this evening in his election bid to reform the city’s charter. But then, of course, the mayor is renowned for yelling “shut up” at his detractors his even temper, so everything will probably be fine.

We’ll let you know.