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Portland’s Racial Profiling Reality
Legendary Coach Honored
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enced spanned from the Albina
com m unity to G resham and
Beaverton.
Mays said he knows first
hand the affect Walden had as
an advocate for youth to be suc
cessful.
“That is what he did for me. He
kept me on the right track from
being on the streets,” he said.
Those who knew him said
W alden was a man who never
com plained or asked for any
thing in return, except that kids
continue their education with
the goal of becom ing a college
graduate.
“We are trying to continue his
name in regards to all the people
he has touched,” Mays said.
W alden was known as a
true pioneer and an unsung
hero in the com m unity. Ev
eryone is invited to attend the
track event and celebrate the
life and contributions of this
legendary man.
Registration will be $2 per
athlete, who will have the op
portunity to participate in an
unlimited number of races.
For additional information,
or to volunteer for the event,
call Leon M cKenzie at 503-
757-6347 or John Mays at
503-312-5863.
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after people are stopped.”
Handelman said they found
data that revealed cops are over
searching people of color and
under searching white people?!
would argue they are making
deliberate choices of whose car
they want to tow,” he said. “That
is the thing we would like to see
the bureau confront, learn form
and stop doing.”
Handelman said, however, the
recent events have catalyzed
some small steps forward.
“We released the statistics to
the press and shared the analy
sis with them (officers). They
didn’t say ‘Oh wow, you are
right!’ But they also didn’t get
defensive.”
They said yeah, that is one
way to look at the numbers, he
said, adding that acknowledging
the problem is the first step to
solving it.
“ It d o e s n ’t m ean they are
going to stop d oing w hat they
are d o in g on the stree t, but
they are w illin g to ad d ress
why they are doing it,” he
said. “ In that w ay it w as e n
co u rag in g . N ow they are a d
m ittin g th o se are p o ssib le
cau ses for the d isp a ritie s. In
my opinion those are big steps
fo rw a r d .”
“I really hope that the police
will take these numbers to heart
and think about how to train
officers making these decisions
to make them fairly and equally
cross racial barriers,” he said.
According to Handelman, the
Com m unity Police Relations
Committee met last month to
work with a group from Seattle
to create a five-year training
plan for police on unlearning in
stitutional racism.
“That is potentially a good
step forw ard,” he said. “We
are hoping once they have that
analysis in m ind it will influ
ence the way they interact with
the com m unity.”
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