Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current, November 14, 2007, Page 9, Image 9

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November 14, 2007
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CRIME STOPPERS OSU Students Raise Voices over Racism
(5 0 3 ) 823-HELP
111 S.W. 2nd Avenue, -----------------------------------------
Portland, Oregon 9 7 2 0 4 -------------------------------------
Walgreen’s Robbed for Oxycotin
The Portland Police Bureau in
cooperation with Crime Stoppers
is asking for help in identifying
two robbery suspects.
On Monday, Oet. 8 at 9:04 p.m.,
two men entered the W algreen's
at 6116 N.E. Martin Luther King
Blvd., walked to the pharmacy,
jumped over the counter and de­
manded Oxycotin from the phar­
macist.
One of the men simulated hav­
ing a weapon in his pocket while
the other acted as a lookout dur­
ing the robbery. The men tied the
scene, but their images were cap­
tured on store surveillance video.
One o f the suspects is de­
scribed as a Hispanic male, 25-30
years, 5 ’ 10" to6 feet tall, thin build
with black curly hair past his col­
lar, possibly worn in a ponytail.
He was wearing large dark sun­
glasses, black sweatshirt with a
hood, black faded jeans, and white
and black tennis shoes.
The other suspect is described
as a white male, 23-28 years, 5’8”
tall, skinny build, with short, pos­
sibly blond hair. He was wearing
a black baseball style hat. a tan
and brown jacket with old English
lettering “L A” on the back and
the number “3” on the front of the
jacket. Additionally, one sleeve
is brown and one sleeve is tan
with additional brown accents.
He also has a tattoo behind his
right ear that has been described
as "blue flamers”, with the possi­
bility of dice at the base of the
tattoo.
Crime Stoppers is offering a
cash reward of up to $1,000 for
information, reported to Crime
Stoppers, that leads to an arrest in
this case, or any unsolved felony,
and you can remain anonymous.
Call Crime Stoppers at 503-823-
HELP(4357).
Black faces and
noose spark protest
(API — A group ofO regon State University
students and staff joined community members
outside ReserStadiumjust before a game against
Washington on Saturday night to protest con­
cerns about racism on campus.
About 50 protesters marched in front of the
stadium.
Roshawn Davis, an Oregon State senior in
liberal studies, said she and others felt com ­
pelled to speak out after a "Black Out Reser”
event to show school spirit at a previous foot­
ball game included some students wearing black
face paint and Afro wigs.
Some students were also angered by a noose
hanging on the front lawn of a fraternity house.
While it was later discovered that the noose
was left over from a Halloween fundraiser at the
fraternity, students were still bothered by what
they considered a symbol of lynching.
Joakina Mode, a senior in communications,
said she was attending the protest because "I
feel like I don’t have any other outlet to voice
my feelings."
Mode said she feels she is constantly having
to educate white students about issues of race on
campus. "I don't feel like I’m just a student." she
said. "I feel like I have to be a teacher.”
The controversy started when Oregon State
junior Casey Grogan encouraged students to
wear all-black clothes to a football game to
show school spirit. Orange and black are the
school's colors.
A photo appeared of a white student in
blackface promoting the idea, and the Hallow­
een noose left outside a fraternity house fed
concerns among some of the university’s 297
black students.
The white editors of the student newspaper.
The Daily Barometer, said they didn’t think the
photo would offend.
But many back students tied it to an insen­
sitivity they feel they often face at a mostly
white campus in a mostly white state.
Some say they face isolation and hostility
and are weary of dealing with what they call
white ignorance of their history and culture.
"It’s very difficult to be part of such a small
community on this campus,” said Shannon
Warren, 23, one of about 25 mostly black stu­
dents who met Thursday with university Presi­
dent Edward J. Ray and other school officials.
“You’re always on guard because you never
know what’s going to happen.”
George Wallace Shooter Free after 35 Years
( AP) — The man who shot and para­
lyzed Alabama Gov. George Wallace
during a 1972 presidential campaign stop
in Maryland was released from prison
Friday after serving 35 years of his sen­
tence.
Arthur H. Bremer, 57, was convicted
of attempted murder and sentenced to
53 years.
Wallace, a fiery segregationist dur­
ing
the I 960s, eventually abandoned his
The Portland Police Bureau and
bid
for
the Democratic nomination, spent
the familiesfor whom have suffered
the
rest
of his life in a wheelchair and
such horrible losses ask fo r your
help in finding justice fo r these diedin 1998.
Bremerearned his mandatory release
victims.
through good behavior and by working
in prison. He will remain under the super­
vision of the Division of Parole and
Probation until his sentence ends in
2025.
Bremer’s diary, parts of which were
found in a landfill in 1980. made it clear
The Cold Case Files
Portland Police Bureau
Cold Case Homicide Unit
503-865-TIPS
CASENUMBER:87-12(MH
NANCY CONV ERSE
CASE NUMBER: 01-74425
Forty-two-yearold NANCY CO N ­
JOSHUA MICHAELJEFFRIES
V ERSE was found deceased in her
On Friday, August 10,2001 at about apartment on February 2, 1987 at
4:30 AM. 11-year-old JO SH U A 57(X)N. Kerby Ave.. # 3 17. Her body
M IC H A ELJEFFR IES died as a re­ was discovered by the building
sult of a gunshot wound, while he superintendent at the Cascadian
was asleep in his bedroom at 6548 Terrace Apartments at approxi­
S.E. 48th Ave., in the City of Port­ m ately 1:30 p.m. An autopsy
land, Oregon. The unknown sus­ showed she had been strangled.
pect apparently entered the home Nancy lived in the apartment less
through an unlocked back door. than three weeks before she was
There is a cash reward offered for murdered. There is a cash reward
information reported to the Cold offered for information reported to
Case Homicide Unit that leads to an the Cold Case Homicide Unit that
arrest in this case.
leads to an arrest in this case.
Katrina Fraud Ring Brings Prison Time
Makeitho Demonz Herring, 3 1, land residents to pose as victims of
of Portland, was sentenced Nov. 6 Hurricane Katrina for the purpose
to 12 months in prison, to be fol­ of fraudulently receiving disaster
lowed by 36 months supervised benefits.
Herring was also ordered to re­
release, for mail fraud in connection
with organizing a scheme by Port­ pay the Federal Emergency Man­
1 -8 0 0 -T H E -L O S T
E ndangered-M issing
agement Agency $12,358 for his efits intended for victims of Hurri­
cane Katrina.
role in the scheme.
Over 25 people have been pros­
Prosecutors said in September
2005, following Hurricane Katrina, ecuted in Oregon for fraudulently
Herring recruited others to unlaw­ receiving money intended for vic­
fully apply on-line for disaster ben­ tims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Missing and Exploited Children
Arthur H. Bremer is taken into custody by police and
agents moments after Alabama Gov. George Wallace
was shot, in this May 15, 1972 photo.
he was motivated to attempt to kill
Wallace by a desire for attention, not a
political agenda. He had also stalked
President Nixon.
Wallace family members said Bremer
hasn’t been punished enough.
"My father forgave him and my fam­
ily has forgiven him. That’s consistent
with God’s law,” George Wallace Jr.
said in Montgomery, Ala. "Then there
is m an's law. I doubt the punishment
has fit the crime."
The Alabama governor made his fa­
mous “stand in the schoolhouse door"
in 1963, decrying the enrollment of two
black students at the all-white Univer­
sity of Alabama in a standoff against the
Justice Department and the National
Guard.
Wallace recanted his segregationist
stand later in his career and won his final
term with the help of black votes.
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