November 25. 2009
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Excessive Force Inquiry Ordered
Free Thanksgiving Day Dinner
Members o f Portland's police
union demonstrated Tuesday
and plan a vote o f no confi
dence against Police Commis
sioner Dan Saltzman and Chief
o f Police Rosie Sizer after an
officer was placed on adminis
trative leave pending an inves
tigation into the use o f force
against a 12-year-oldgirl.
On Nov. 14 at 10:47 p.m., po
lice officer Chris Humphreys
shot the young female with a
beanbag shotgun. The girl had
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T he la te st in c id e n t w as
been combative with officers at
a MAX station where police cau g h t on T riM et se c u rity
had been called to after reports video. The footage showed two
o f a disturbance involving a officers trying to subdue the
girl while Officer Humphreys
large number o f people.
Humphreys was also a key circles closely with a beanbag
figure in the actions surround gun.
After the video went public.
ing the death o f James Chasse,
a diagnosed schizophrenic who Chief Sizer said she found the
died in police custody after he incident on the video "disturb
was tackled by officers who ing” and placed Humphreys on
said Chasse ran from them after leave, prompting an immediate
they tried to apprehend him for outcry from rank-and-file offic
ers.
urinating in public in 2006.
MAX Operator Ignored Emergency
TriMet says it has placed a
MAX light-rail train operator
on paid leave after deciding his
actions contributed to a 3-year-
old boy being separated from
his father at a southeast Port
land stop.
A disciplinary hearing for the
driver, who was not identified,
is set for Wednesday.
The agency said M onday
that a thorough in sp ectio n
found no problem s with the
Taking place at Moonstar Bar and Grill
7410 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Portland
503-285-1230
train's doors or emergency in
tercom system. The boy was
stranded Nov. 16.
T riM et sp o kesm an Josh
Collins says little Aidan Bailey
likely engaged the disabled
ramp moments before the op
erator pushed a "door close"
button in the train's cabin, over
riding the door from reopening.
The boy's father, Aaron Bailey,
says he tried repeatedly to get
the operator's attention via the
train's emergency intercom. He
wound up riding to the next stop,
then doubling back to his son,
who was safe on the platform
with a woman who held the boy's
hand until his father returned.
A review o f the train's data
base and intercom tests showed
that the intercom was function
ing. T riM et sp o k esw o m an
Mary Fetsch says the agency
now believes the operator ig
nored those cues.
12 pm til evening
Free
Thanksgiving
Dinner
Hosted By:
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Bar & Grill
Moonstar Bar & Grill Owner
Jack Chung invites the public
to a free Thanksgiving Day
Dinner on Thursday, Nov.
26, hosted by Moonstar and
My Brothers BBQ at his
restaurant at 7410 N.E.
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Two whole smoked pigs,
turkey, desert and all the
fixings will be served from
noon until gone.
Turkey, dessert & all the fixings,
including two whole smoked pigs
“We are about neighbors
help in g neighbors im prove
th e ir com m unity.”
M a ry H a rre ll
at Friends of Trees
501 • 282 - 8846
Controversial Bus Ads Allowed
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behind message
www.FriendsofTrees.org
Ten TriM et buses are cur
rently displaying a controver
sial advertisement from non
believers.
The Portland Coalition o f
Reason purchased the ads that
feature the words “Good with
out God? Millions Are.”
Similar ads have been run in
14 other cities across the coun
try as part o f a national cam
paign to remind agnostics, athe
ists, and humanists that there
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A controversial advertisement is allowed on TriMet buses.
are other like-minded individu
als, according to a statement by
the organization.
“We want people to under
stand that humanists, freethink
ers, agnostics and atheists are
essentially like everyone else,”
said Sylvia Benner, spokesper
son for the coalition. “We have
most o f the same values and
concerns. And people will find
us among their friends, neigh
bors, cow orkers and fam ily
members. Now it’s time for us
to be ack n o w le d g e d and
granted our rightful place at the
table.”
According to the Pew Forum
on Religion & Public Life, nine
percent o f Oregonians do not
believe in god, up significantly
higher than the national num
ber, which is at three percent.
TriM et Public Information
O fficer Bekki Witt said that
TriMet used to only accept ad
vertising by organizations of
fering goods and services, but
a court challenge to the rule
p ro m p ted the m a ss-tra n sit
agency to suspend the rule un
til further notice.
“We pretty much get to ac
cept anything now,” said Witt.
The hook reading and signing
aunt S ar ah ’ s R ecipes
for a L ong an d spirit - filled life
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will be held
Saturday,
December 5,
2009 from 3
p.m. to 6 p.m.
at Talking Drum
Book Store
446 NE Killingsworth Street in Portland, Oregon
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