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Six Men Sentenced in
1969 Race Riot Murder
(A P )— Six w hite men w ere handed sentences o f
o f Y o rk ’s form er m ayor and tw o other white men. The
up to three years in prison last w eek in the shooting
m ayor w as acquitted; his co-defendants w ere found
death o f a black w om an during a 1969 race riot that has
guilty and face a possible 20 years in prison.
T he defendants apologized before they w ere sen
violence betw een blacks and w hites in York. D uring
tenced, but the victim ’s daughter com plained that
the riots, a white police officer w as also killed, m ore
none of them had expressed any sorrow for the
than 60 people w ere injured and 100 w ere arrested.
A llen was shot to death at tw ilight after she go t out
slaying o f L illie B elle A llen until they w ere in court,
w here an apology m ight lessen their punishm ent.
A ll six m en pleaded guilty in A ugust, and som e
testified for the prosecution in the trial earlier this year
Man Shot Dead
Domingo
Gonzales
was shot
shortly after
4 a.m. on
Sunday.
(A P) — A m an is dead after a shooting in
northeast Portland that closed L om bard Street
for several hours.
Shortly a fte r4 a.m . on Sunday police arrived
at the scene but found n o victim . They later
learned that 25-year-old D om ingo G onzales
w as pronounced dead at Em anuel H ospital.
He had been transported there by private
car.
N eighbors say they hear shots fired from the
area on a reg u lar basis.
O thers say that residents o f the house w here
the shooting occurred often host loud parties
last until m orning.
A uthorities are searching for evidence and
speaking w ith w itnesses.
The Drug Enforcem ent A dm in
is tra tio n has u n v eiled a new
w ebsite dedicated to providing
inform ation in the fight against
drug crim es and traffickers, as well
as inform ation on battling ad d ic
tion.
The newly revised w ebsite pro
vides inform ation on everything
from drug facts to pictures o f the
country ’ s m ost w anted drug fu g i
tives.
“T he idea w as to m ake it easy
for the public to find out w hat’s
going on in the fig h t against
A llen, 27, o f Aiken, S .C., was killed am id 10 days o f
haunted Y ork, Pa., for the past 33 years.
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o f her fam ily’s car to try to help her panicking sister
steer the stalled vehicle away from a m ob o f arm ed
w hite gang m em bers.
drugs— not ju s t nationally but lo
cally,” said D EA A ssistant Special
A gent in C harge K enneth M agee.
R egional sites provide D EA in
form ation on a state-by-state b a
sis.
From the D EA m ain w ebsite at
w w w .d ea.g o v . you can lin k to
O reg o n ’s w ebpage by clicking on
“L ocal N ew s” icon at the left-hand
side o f the page. A m ap will appear,
allow ing visitors to select the S e
attle Field D ivision region, w hich
includes the new s and state Fact
Sheets for O regon.
Hate Crime Participant Finishes Prison Term
Kyle Brewster took part in baseball-bat killing of Ethiopian in 1988
(A P) — Form er racist skinhead Kyle
B rew ster, w ho participated in one o f
O regon’s m ost infam ous hate crim es, was
released from prison T uesday.
B rew ster w as co nvicted o f first-de
gree m anslaughter in the 1988 baseball-
bat killing o f an E thiopian man in S outh
east Portland. The death o f the man,
M ulugeta Seraw , led civil rights activists
to dub Portland “Skinhead C ity.”
The crim e prom pted legislators to e n
act O regon’s groundbreaking hate crim es
law, and sparked a violent street-level
fight betw een P o rtlan d ’s skinheads and
their opponents. A nd the m urder led to
acivil trial that financially crippled one of
the n atio n ’s m ost pow erful racists.
The O regon B oard o f Parole and Post-
Prison Supervision considered Brewster
for parole on M ay 23,2000. B utthe board
declined to release him then, citing a
w orrisom e psychological evaluation.
In ste a d , p a ro le o ffic e rs o rd e re d
B rew ster’s release on Nov. 19,2002. His
parole w ill be revoked if he drinks alco
hol, associates w ith gang m em bers or
contacts Seraw ’ s fam ily .
The 33-year-old inm ate appears to
have no ties to racist groups, said Steven
Stroud, a form er skinhead w ho leads
O regon S potlight, a P ortland-based o r
g an iza tio n th at track s hate groups.
B rew ster has a strong fam ily support
system , has secured w ork and “has a lot
m ore going fo r him than the average
inm ate upon release,” Stroud said.
Airport Screener Fired for False Breach
(A P ) — T ra n sp o rta tio n a u th o rities
fired a fe d e ra l scre e n e r at P o rtlan d In
te rn atio n al A irp o rt F rid ay fo r m ak in g
up a sto ry ab o u t a se c u rity b reach at a
p assen g er c h e c k p o in t O ct. 31.
“T h e in v estig atio n show ed there had
b een n o b re a c h ,” said B rian T u rm a il, a
sp o k esm an fo r the T ra n sp o rta tio n S e
curity A dm inistration. “H e falsified it.”
T h e rep o rted breach fo rced the c lo
sure o f tw o co n c o u rse s an d rescreen -
ing o f m o te th an 5 0 0 p assen g ers.
T he federal agency, w hich took over
c iv i l a v iatio n secu rity acro ss the n a
tio n th is fa ll, d e c lin e d to id en tify the
screen er. T u rm ail said th ere is no
k n o w n m o tiv e.
T he scre e n e r h ad b een w o rk in g fo r
the T S A fo r a b o u t six w eeks and w as
p lace d on ad m in istrativ e leave the day
he re p o rte d the b reach , T u rm ail said.
A n in v e s tig a tio n fo u n d th at the
sc re e n e r w a lk e d up to a su p e rv iso r
a n d r e p o r te d th a t s o m e o n e h a d
fa ile d to step asid e fo r a d d itio n a l
screen in g w h en ask ed to do so a fter
g o in g th ro u g h th e a ir p o rt’s m etal d e
tecto r.
T he Port o f P ortland police im m ed i
ately e v a c u a te d the c o n c o u rs e s and
o rd ered p a ss e n g e rs on th ree p lan es
to g et off. P o lice and search do g s
sco u red th e area.
B rew ster w as 19 w hen he got into a
traffic fight with Seraw in the early m orn
ing hours o f N ov. 13,1988. He leapt from
his car, hurled racial slurs and punched
the sm aller man. Ken M ieske, w ho w as
also in the car, m oved behind Seraw and
clubbed him in the head w ith a baseball
bat. W hen the East A frican buckled,
M ieske delivered the blow that crushed
his skull. A ccording to a prison spokes
w om an, M ieske’s earliest possible re
lease date is in 2024.
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