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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2020
Arrested Portland protesters Fauci optimistic
on virus vaccine
defy ‘anarchists’ depiction
By RICARDO ALONSO-
ZALDIVAR and
MATTHEW PERRONE
Associated Press
By SUMAN
NAISHADHAM and
JAKE BLEIBERG
Associated Press
Sheena McFerran was
two rows behind a line of
police at a protest in Port-
land when she saw offi cers
pepper-spraying a Black
man.
“I said, ‘Hell no,’ so I
pulled his backpack back
really hard and stepped into
the space he was in,” said
McFerran, a 34-year-old
manager for the Sierra Club
who’s white.
Edward Schinzing, 32,
was just around the cor-
ner on another night. Pros-
ecutors say he and 30 oth-
ers broke into a building
with a jail and courtrooms,
destroyed an offi ce and set
it ablaze.
Both were arrested. Their
disparate
circumstances
highlight what The Associ-
ated Press found in an analy-
sis of more than 200 arrests:
even those accused of break-
ing the law during the lib-
eral city’s nightly rallies
don’t neatly fi t into Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s depic-
tion of protesters as “anar-
chists and agitators.”
A review of court doc-
uments, social media posts
and other public records
from people arrested by fed-
eral and local authorities
since mid-June reveals a
group whose motives are as
varied as the acts leading to
their arrests.
They’re Black Lives
Matter activists who have
been in the streets since
George Floyd died at the
hands of Minneapolis police
in May, groups of self-pro-
claimed parents using leaf
blowers to drive away tear
gas and black-clad provoca-
teurs taking advantage of the
nightly chaos that’s gripped
downtown Portland for over
two months and led Trump
to deploy federal agents in
Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo
Federal agents arrest a demonstrator during a Black Lives Matter protest outside the Mark O.
Hatfi eld U.S. Courthouse in Portland on Wednesday.
early July.
The AP found that 95% of
those arrested by police and
federal agents were local.
The vast majority have no
criminal record in Oregon.
Many appear to be college
students. Their average age
was 28, court records show.
They’re mostly charged
with misdemeanors like fail-
ing to comply with a lawful
order, while some face fel-
onies like arson and assault
on an offi cer. Most peo-
ple have been released, and
some have been arrested
more than once for similar
offenses.
The federal government
agreed Wednesday to draw
down the number of agents
whose presence has swelled
the ranks of the protests.
Federal forces have drawn
more black-clad people
accused of setting fi res or
assaulting offi cers but also
military veterans seeking to
lower tensions and a self-ti-
tled “Wall of Moms.”
“They have acted as an
occupying force & brought
violence,” Gov. Kate Brown
tweeted of the U.S. offi cers.
Soon
before
the
announcement,
Trump
insisted agents wouldn’t
leave until local authorities
“secured their city.” He’s
spent weeks running Port-
land through the political
playbook he used during the
initial wave of nationwide
demonstrations after Floyd’s
death: painting those on the
streets as anarchists and
seeking to tie them to Dem-
ocratic rival Joe Biden.
On Thursday, Trump
said federal offi cers who
were stationed at the court-
house in downtown Portland
would remain in the city
through at least Friday to
see if Brown and Mayor Ted
Wheeler clear out protesters
Trump described as a “bee-
hive of terrorists.”
If Brown and Wheeler do
not succeed, Trump threat-
ened to send in the National
Guard.
The U.S. Justice Depart-
ment and Homeland Secu-
rity offi cials have often
highlighted
destructive
cases like Schinzing’s in
their portrayal of protest-
ers. The nightly unrest often
follows a script: authorities
declare a riot, sending hun-
dreds of peaceful protest-
ers home as smaller groups
of demonstrators target the
U.S. courthouse with bricks,
laser pointers and fi reworks.
Federal agents respond with
tear gas, stun grenades and
arrests.
But AP’s analysis shows
many of those arrested do not
fi t the caricature of an anar-
chist bent on destruction.
Moments before her
arrest, police threw McFer-
ran to the ground, yanking
off her mask and binding her
wrists in zip ties. She was
released after eight hours in
jail and faces charges of dis-
orderly conduct and interfer-
ing with police.
McFerran, who lives in
Seattle, said she started pro-
testing in her city and in
Portland almost nightly after
realizing she could do more
in the fi ght for racial jus-
tice. Until Floyd’s killing,
McFerran says she was a
“tourist protester.”
Bridge: 14th Street pier is next major project
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The project constricted
access for businesses over the
water downtown, contribut-
ing to the closure of Smoked
Bones BBQ on Pier 11. But
had the city not tackled the
project, City Engineer Nathan
Crater said, restrictions on
traffi c could have increased .
The city replaced three
bridges at a time — fi rst on
odd-numbered streets, then
on even-numbered streets
— to ensure access to busi-
nesses from the other side of
the block. The city partnered
with the Astoria-Warrenton
Area Chamber of Commerce
and the Astoria Downtown
Historic District Association,
which created signs to direct
people around construction
and to businesses.
The city also put signif-
icant effort into making the
modern bridge ends fi t the
historic waterfront, Estes
said. The bridge incorporated
colored concrete and metal
railings to fi t with the weath-
ered surroundings and used
board-formed concrete to
mimic work on surrounding
buildings and metal letters,
like those used at the Garden
of Surging Waves, embedded
to mark the streets.
In July, t he City Council
approved a nearly $289,000
contract to local fi rm Berge-
man Construction to repair
and replace parts of a trestle
just north of Astoria Brew-
ing Co. near 11th Street. The
trestle was not in a right of
way covered by the bridge
replacement project.
The project is the last step
to removing load restrictions
around 11th Street, Crater said.
Estes described the project as
essential to return truck traf-
fi c to surrounding businesses
along the Astoria Riverwalk.
Regular maintenance proj-
ects will continue along the
trestle. The next major proj-
ect is replacing the 14th Street
pier, which has load restric-
tions for pedestrians walking
out to the viewing deck. But
funding the project largely
depends on how much the
city loses in lodging taxes
during the pandemic.
“What was going to fund
that was Promote Asto-
ria funds, which is room tax
dollars,” Estes said. “We’re
going to have to be monitor-
ing room tax receipts to deter-
mine whether this is some-
thing that we’re going to be
able to afford.”
Auction: Animal barn will not be open for viewing
Jack Edwards, the com-
mittee’s chairman, said this
year’s auction has been one
of the most complicated he’s
planned . “It was hard since
we don’t have a fair, but I
think the participation is
going to be good. W e’ll fi nd
out,” he said.
A ttendees
will
be
required to complete a
health screening and sign a
waiver before entering the
auction. People will also
have to maintain 6 feet from
one another and wear a face
covering or mask.
The animals will be sold
in the same order as previ-
ous years — poultry, goats,
sheep, beef, then swine.
However, the animal barn
will not be open for viewing.
Matt’s Custom Meats
will be used for animal
processing.
Typically, around 250
animals are entered into
the auction, but this year
there will be just under 100
because of private sales.
The lower number of
participants is a good thing
for sellers, making it more
likely all of the animals will
be sold.
“The kids that did their
private sales made it to
where we have manageable
numbers. I f we had to have
every kid in there we proba-
bly wouldn’t have been able
to do it,” Edwards said .
Buyers have been asked
to reduce the number of peo-
ple they bring to the auc-
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Clatsop County reported
Friday that a woman living
in the southern part of the
county has tested positive
for the coronavirus.
The woman is in her
20s and was reportedly
recovering at home.
The county has recorded
74 cases since March 23.
Sixty-fi ve have recovered
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WASHINGTON
—
Once a coronavirus vac-
cine is approved as safe
and effective, Americans
should have widespread
access within a reasonable
time, Dr. Anthony Fauci
assured lawmakers Friday.
Appearing before a
House panel investigating
the nation’s response to the
pandemic, Fauci expressed
“cautious” optimism that
a vaccine would be avail-
able, particularly by next
year.
“I believe, ultimately,
over a period of time in
2021, that Americans will
be able to get it,” Fauci
said, referring to the
vaccine.
There will be a priority
list for who gets early vac-
cinations. “I don’t think we
will have everybody get-
ting it immediately,” Fauci
explained.
But “ultimately, within
a reasonable time, the
plans allow for any Amer-
ican who needs the vaccine
to get it,” he added.
Under direction from
the White House, federal
health authorities are car-
rying out a plan dubbed
Operation Warp Speed to
manufacture 300 million
doses of a vaccine on a
compressed timeline.
Fauci, the nation’s top
infectious disease offi cial,
said a quarter-million peo-
ple have expressed interest
in taking part in studies of
experimental vaccines for
the coronavirus.
He said that 250,000
people have registered on a
government website to take
part in vaccine trials, which
are pivotal for establishing
safety and effectiveness.
Not all patients who vol-
unteer to take part in clin-
ical trials are eligible to
participate.
Fauci was joined by
Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention head
Dr. Robert Redfi eld and
Health and Human Ser-
vices testing czar Adm.
Brett Giroir.
Giroir acknowledged
that currently it’s not pos-
sible for the U.S. to return
all coronavirus test results
to patients in two to three
days. He blamed over-
whelming demand across
the nation.
Many health experts
say that COVID-19 results
are almost worthless when
delivered after two or three
days because by then the
window for contact tracing
has closed.
The latest government
data shows about 75% of
testing results are com-
ing back within fi ve days,
but the remainder are tak-
ing longer, Giroir told
lawmakers.
Rapid, widespread test-
ing is critical to contain-
ing the coronavirus out-
break, but the U.S. effort
has been plagued by sup-
ply shortages and backlogs
since the earliest days of
the outbreak.
At a time when early
progress seems to have
been lost and uncertainty
clouds the nation’s path
forward, Fauci, Giroir and
Redfi eld are calling on
calling on Americans to go
back to public health basics
such as social distancing
and wearing masks.
The panel, the House
select subcommittee on
the coronavirus crisis,
is divided about how to
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nesses, mirroring divi-
sions among Americans.
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