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YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, YOUR VOICE
Fired after Punch Video Surfaces
The City is investing $20 million in
North/Northeast Portland over the next five
years to help address the need for affordable
housing. We need your input to inform the
housing strategy.
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Highland Christian Center
7600 NE Glisan St
Thursday 9/18/14
Dinner 6:00 p.m. • Session 6:30 - 9:00
TriMet Restores Service Cuts
Riders on TriMet got a boost in transit services last
week when service cuts were restored because of an
improving economic outlook for the government
agency. Officials say the 12 busiest bus lines as well as
all Max lines will have 15-minute or better service
extended into evening hours on weekdays.
Matt Dishman Community Center
77 NE Knott St
Saturday 9/27/14
Lunch 1:00 p.m. • Session 1:30 - 4:00
Gresham City Hall
1333 NW Eastman Pkwy, Gresham
Thursday 10/9/14
Dinner 6:00 p.m. • Session 6:30 - 9:00
Pedestrian Death on Sandy
Portland police said a woman
was waiting for a bus was killed
when a motorist suffered a
medical condition causing her
to lose control of her car and
sm ash into a bus shelter.
Brenda Badon, 41, of northeast
Portland died in the Thursday afternoon accident at
Northeast Sandy Boulevard and 138th Avenue.
New Song Community Church,
2511 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
Saturday 10/11/14
Breakfast 9:00 a.m. • Session 9:30 - Noon
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Acid-Tongue Comedian Dies
Joan Rivers, the raucous,
acid-tongued com edian
who crashed the m ale-
dominated realm of late-
night talk shows and turned
Hollywood red carpets into
danger zones for badly
dressed celebrities, died
Thursday. She was 81. Riv
ers was hospitalized last
week after she went into cardiac arrest following a
routine medical procedure.
Band Leader Remembered
Gerald Wilson, the dynamic
jazz musician whose career
spanned more than 75 years,
died Monday at age 96. W il
son played and composed
music with the likes of Duke
Ellington, Count Basie and
Dizzy Gillespie, and he ar
ran g e d m u sic fo r E lla
Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sa
rah Vaughan and Bobby Darin.
Student Robbed at Gunpoint
A female student at Concordia University in northeast
Portland was robbed at gunpoint last week. Accord
ing to Portland Police, the incident happened Wednes
day as she was waiting for a bus next to campus. The
suspects were described as three younger African-
American males who got into a dark-colored SUV.
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day fired Ray Rice after a new
** '■ video surfaced show ing the
three-time Pro Bowl running back
punching his then-fiancee dur
ing an argument earlier this year.
An earlier video showed Rice
dragging unconscious Janay
Palmer, who is now his wife, from
an elevator at an Atlantic City casino but the new one
was taken from inside the elevator.
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September 10, 2014
Lucinda Baldwin
Ferguson Investigation Expanding
(AP) — The Justice Department
has launched a larger investigation
into the police d ep artm en t in
Ferguson, Missouri, following the
shooting last month of an unarmed
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black 18-year-old by a white police
officer.
The investigation, which goes
beyond an existing federal probe
into the Aug. 9 shooting, will look
for patterns of discrimination within
the predominantly white department
and focus on how officers use force,
search and arrest suspects, and treat
inmates at the city jail. The police
department said it welcomed the
investigation.
In announcing the action last
Thursday, Attorney General Eric
Holder, who visited the St. Louis
suburb two weeks ago, said he and
his department had heard numer
ous concerns from people there
about police practices, a history of
"deep mistrust" of law enforcement
and a lack o f diversity on the police
force.
The inquiry is part of a broader
Justice Department effort to inves
tigate troubled police departments
and, when pervasive problems are
found, institute changes. The de
partment says it has investigated
more than 20 police departments in
the past five years, more than twice
the number of cases opened in the
previous five years.
Besides the investigation into
the Ferguson police force, the Jus
tice D epartm ent says it will also
work with the St. Louis County
police departm ent, which trains
officers from Ferguson and other
local departm ents, to review the
use o f force, the handling o f m ass
dem onstrations and other aspects
o f policing. It will also conduct a
report on the county's response
to the som etim es violent dem on
strations that follow ed the shoot
ing.
Charles W ashington
Past Publisher of the Portland O bserver
In memory of an outstanding and dedicated
member of Portland's Longest Standing
Minority Publieation.
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