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Celebrating Kirk Reeves http://www.portlandobserver.com Mural will pay tribute to popular street performer QR code for Portland Observer See story, page 5 ‘City of Roses’ Volume XLIV Number 28 Silencethe Violence ! www.portlandobserver.com Wednesday • July 16, 2014 D onovan M. S mith T he P ortland O bserver Portland youth gathered in McCoy Park, just down the street from where a young man was recently shot and killed, to say this, “Silence the Violence”. Historic park ready for new memories See Local News, page 3 Established in 1970 Committed to Cultural Diversity by soviet D onovan M. S mith /T he P ortland O bserver Calvin Jackson takes a stand against violence at north Portland’s McCoy Park. He was among a group o f about 90 young people and adults who rallied at the park Friday, many wearing tape over their mouths stating ideas important to them, to protest a rash o f shootings in north Portland and elsewhere that has cost lives and left the community traumatized. Youth take a stand to stop the bloodshed by Dawson Unveiling They were among nearly 90 people, kids and adults likewise, who filled the New Co lumbia greenspace in north Portland on a blazing hot Friday afternoon to spread a message for peace against a backdrop of summer gun violence that is up from previ ous years. The majority of the victims have been black males in their 20’s and younger. One of the latest shootings saw five people injured outside the Soobie’s Bar & Grill on South east 122nd Avenue and Oak Street, leaving 26-year-old Hahrachio Branch dead just hours after Independence Day. Days later, a 5-year-old boy was struck in the leg in what police said was an unintentional target of a ‘gang-related’ shooting outside his south east Portland apartment. Other summer shootings police have tied to gang violence have occurred in north, continued on page 4