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Page 2 Portland Observer, March 30, 1983 Grants available to minority high school students Six S I , 300 grants for student re search ap p ren tice positions at the Oregon H ealth Sciences University in medicine and dentistry are avail able this summer for m in ority stu dents c u rre n tly en ro lled in high school. The student research apprentice positions are intended to provide the students with meaningful experience in various aspects o f health-related research w ith the expectation that they may decide to pursue a career in related areas. The program emphasizes that the students involved develop an under standing o f b oth the research in which they participate and the tech nical skills involved. Former O H S U grant winners have done research in a D N A laboratory, Ihe in-vitro fer tilization program, and psychology. For more in fo rm atio n about the summer m in o rity high school stu dent research apprentice program at O H S U , contact D r Bentley at 223- 8414 or D r. C .K . Claycomb, profes sor o f biochemistry. School o f Den tistry. at 225-8774. 1 THIS AD HAS BEEH 50 YEARS IN THE Edna May Smith and har family: Prince, Imalda. Willie, grand mother Willie Edna Cash, and Jamie. (Photo: Lea Millar) ■ A I lim it ' MMR■LMI Portland woman fights conviction bv t arry Haker " I will fight this case until the truthis brought forth." Those were the words of a 37-ycar old black woman, mother o f six children, who is on welfare and car ing for her 81-ycar-old grand mother. Edina Mac Smith was found guilty by an all-white six-person jury after the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed her former conviction of harassment of two white male Port land police officers. O fficer Ray mond S. Jones and William P. Sin- noll on January 29lh, 1981. Ms. Smith claims that on the night in question, she, her boy friend, Tim othy M orris, and a fe male companion, Brenda Williams, were leaving the Paragon Club on North Killingsworth Avenue, when she and Hunt started having a verb al argument. Suddenly two uni formed Portland police officers, Jones and Sinnott, pulled up in a squad car, jumped out, and de manded that Smith, Morris and Hunt put their hands in Ihe air. Ms Smith alleges that while she proceeded to inquire why they were being apprehended. Officer Jones kept telling her to "shut up." Smith admitted she becaipe boisterous over the situation, then officer Sinnot grabbed her by the arms, ripping away her purse and slamming her face down across the hood o f the police car After Officer Jones ap plied handcuffs, he proceeded to body-search Smith in a very inde cent manner, she said. According to Ms. Smith, Officer Sinnot threw her min the back of a second police car which arrived to assist. Ms. Smith says she became hysterical and nervous because of (he treatment, that she began kick ing the police car doqr while she was on Ihe floor in the back seat, in an effort to attract people's attention. At this point, Ms. Smith said. Officer Sinnot tied up her legs and then dragged her oul of the second police car and Ihew her into Officer Jones’ and Sinnot's squad car with Tim othy M orris, who also was handcuffed, and placed under arrest for carrying a concealed weapon. Ms. Hunt was not arrested. Ms. Smith said that en route to the County Courthouse O fficer Sinnot staled he could have Smith booked for prostitution, because she and Hunt were in the company ot M orris, who is a white male. Smith stated she told Officer Sinnot that he could not do that because Morris was her boyfriend and the father of her one year-old son. She claims Officer Sinnot then replied, " I am . policeman and I can do anything I want." After Ms Smith was booked for harassment, she and Morris wer e- leased on their own recognizance a few hours later. Ms Smith slated she was under her doctor's care prior to this inci- YOUR DOG NEEDS VITAMINS, TOO. A Sergeant s ** f»*r f’ dent and most o f her tension brought on was due to the lack of her medication which had been withheld from her during her arrest and incarceration. During the first trial, the medical report of Ms. Smith's physical con dition was not admitted in evidence, and she was found guilty, but the Court of Appeals reversed the lower court's decision. Ms. Smith had re ceived a one-year suspended sen tence and probation. Sm ith’ s second trial was on March 16, 1983. where she was found guilty again by a jury. How ever, Judge W illiam Snouffer. Multnom ah District C o u rt, sen tenced her to time served. Smith said she believes the two Portland police officers lied in both trials by stating they had first been stopped by two black males in a car and were told a white man had just slopped (heir automobile at gun point and demanded a ride. Neither black man appeared at either trial to substantiate the police officers’ stories. Ms. Smith's court-appointed at torney, Steven Summer, questioned why the Portland Police Internal A ffairs had not investigated Ms. Smith's claim filed against Officers Jones and Sinnott, which he initiat ed on Ms. Smith's behalf over a year ago. Dave Simpson, information o ffi cer of the Portland Police Depart ment, states that investigations do not take place until after a criminal case is disposed of in these circum stances. Once again Mrs. Smith, who weighs slightly under 100 pounds and is 5 '2 ' tall is ready to fight her way through the Court of Appeals for a third trial to prove her inno cence. " I have never been arrested in my life ," said Smith. "But right now I feel so humiliated that I am not about to give up, just because I am a black woman up against the Port land Police Bureau all alone." Officer Jones' and Sinnott's po lice report states, "When Jones was searching Tim othy M o rris , Edna Smith grabbed Jones by the arm and started pulling and shoving to ihe point Sinnott had to grab Smith and restrain her.” Then it further states that Edna Smith then began fighting verbally and otherwise with Brenda W il liams, that when the other two police officers backed up to Jones’ and Sinnott's car, "Officer Duddly and Butler were forced to subdue Smith. She was handcuffed, placed in rear seat o f police car, when Smith tried to kick out window of police vehicle. At this point, officer Duddy removed Smith’s shoes and secured her ankles with temporary cuffs to keep her from causing fur ther damage to the police vehicle." The police report sayd, "B o th Smith and Morris, enroute to Mult nomah County Booking F acility, complained of being physically in jured by police officers, but neither had signs o f injury and only m ini mal force was needed in arrest. Tim othy M orris corroborated Ms. Smith’s story. He said the po lice approached the couple because they were noisy and when they moved to arrest Morris Ms. Smith asked why. It was then that the o f ficer grabbed her by the arm and hair and slammed her face down on the car, he 'd. m u , < . I i i t i i u t i i t \ a,K1lts achievements in the past half century.jL And we plan to help make the» next 50 years just as [ jprospe rous. So congratulations. Now. if you'll excuse us. we have to start thinking about our centennial! '■£ Union Avenue Branch 5505 NE I tuon Avenue Phon« 283 3571 Sale prices throughout this section will be effective W ednesday. March 30 through Saturday. 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