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Sickle Cell Awareness Walk
A large group of young people, including students at Self Enhancement, Inc., join Pastor Marcia
Taylor for Saturday’s Sickle Cell Awareness march in northeast Portland. The event included music,
ood and special t-shirts for participants thanks to the generous contributions of supporters.
Taser Takes Down Teenager
Police reviews of St. Johns disturbance ordered
The use o f a Taser gun by Port
land police to subdue a black teen
ager and the actions of police to
make the arrest will be investigated
by Portland’s Independent Police
Review Division as well as an inter
nal police review, officials said
M onday.
The 16-year old male, a sopho
more at Roosevelt High School,
fought with a group of police offic
ers who were investigating reports
of vandalism and attempted to place
him into handcuffs just after mid
night Sunday in the vicinity of North
Philadelphia Avenue and Ivanhoe
Street in the St. Johns neighbor
hood.
Officers said they grabbed the
teenager by the arm when he at
tempted to walk away and deployed
the T a se r to o v e rc o m e the
teenager’s aggressions, including
his choking o f a female officer in-
volved in the struggle.
The violent encounter sparked
an outcry at the scene. It was
captured on two videos that have
been posted to Facebook from
eyew itnesses. One o f the videos
was from the ju v e n ile ’s brother,
2 0 -y e a r-o ld G io v a n n i D m itri
Gurule, who could be heard on the
recording yelling at the officers in
c o n tin u e d
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Forum on Racial Disparities Law
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Mechanics of
legislation goes
before public
M ichael L eighton
T he P ortland O bserver
by
A forum was held in Salem Tues
day aimed at educating lawmakers
and members of the public about a
new law that can delay and possibly
prevent future legislation that
causes racial disparities in our crimi
nal justice and child welfare sys
tems.
The Oregon Legislature passed
racial impact legisla
Sen. Jackie Winters, a
tion in the 2013 ses
Republican and Afri
sion as a relatively new
can-A m erican law
tool to estim ate the
m aker representing
impacts o f proposed
Salem, won broad bi
child welfare and crimi
partisan support.
nal sentencing legisla
“W hat’s most im
tion on people of color.
portant is for the com
It works in the say way
munity to know that
that fiscal impact state
th is tool is h e re ,”
ments describe bud
Shields said. “We were
getary effects, or en vi- Sen. Chip Shields
only one of two states
ronmental impact statements assess that had the guts to pass this,
ecological impacts.
Shields said lawmakers on both
The bill sponsored by Sen. Chip sides of the isle agree that there are
Shields, a Democrat representing
north and northeast Portland and
co n tin u ed
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