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Southeast Portland Strip Club Shooting
After being re
fused entry to
the M y stic
G e n tle m e n ’s
Club in south
east Portland
on S u n d ay
evening, a man returned wearing a mask and shot a
bouncer in the head. A second bouncer pulled out his
own handgun and wounded the intruder. The wounded
bouncer remained in critical condition Tuesday in a
medically induced coma. The gunman also remains in
critical condition.
Lawyers say
Wiretaps Tainted
Mohamud Trial
Mohamed Mohamud was
found guilty of attempting
to bomb Pioneer C ourt
house Square during the
holiday tree lighting cer
em o n y
in
2010.
M oham ud’s lawyers are
now seeking docum ents
from federal prosecutors
about their investigation,
saying that admitted warrantless wiretaps may have
tainted his 2013 conviction.
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L uther K
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January 15, 2014
2014 s p e c ia l ed itio n
Former Inmate Awarded $26,000
Multnomah County will settle with former Inverness
Jail inmate Franklin Miller for $26,000after he claimed
jail officials denied him proper treatment for his foot
while incarcerated causing it to become swollen and
infected. Neither the sh e riffs officials nor county
leadership are commenting on the settlement.
Oregon Graded Low in Student Achievement
Education Week reported Thursday that Oregon ranks
No. 40 among the states in academic achievement,
which is measured primarily by reading and math
scores. This is the 18th year the impartial news site has
graded states public education systems.
Merkley Calls for Mininum Wage Increase
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., gg
is calling for Congress to pass
the Fair M inimum Wage Act
that would raise the national
minimum wage from $7.25 to
$10.10 and provide automatic
annual increases dependent on
costs o f living. Oregon had
roughly 130,000 minimum
wage workers at the beginning of 2012.
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Gun Raffle ‘Honors’ King and Lincoln
M ultnomah County Republicans said in a press re
lease Monday that they will be “celebrating” the legacy
o f President Lincoln and Civil Rights leader Martin
Luther King Jr. (whom they referred to as Republican)
by raffling off an A R -15 rifle on Feb. 15. Both Lincoln
and King were both famously assassinated with guns.
Controversial
Police Reform
Passes Council
Despite calls from community members and the
police union president to hold off on the city
auditor’s proposed reforms on police oversight,
Portland City Council voted in favor of the plan.
The proposed regulations advanced last
Wednesday in a4-0 vote; Commissioner Amanda
Fritz was reported as out sick during the decision.
Under the auditor’s City Code changes, the
Independent Police Review Division, composed
of ci vilian citizens, would be able to conduct their
own inquiries into alleged police misconduct and
directly question officers after a Police Bureau
liaison orders the officer to speak.
Some police watchdog groups and activists
have argued that these reforms are too weak.
An earlier proposal would have required the
chief to explain in writing to the police com m is
sioner (currently M ayor Charlie Hales), every
time his discipline, diverts from the bureau’s Per
formance Review Board, which reviews investi
gations of police conduct.
Chief Mike Reese objected to this stipulation.
The revised reform now states the chief would
have to give written rationale for his mode of
discipline if the discipline falls outside new guide
lines the bureau is expected to adopt. '
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