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Portland City Commissioner Amanda Fritz and her husband, Dr. Stephen Fritz, from an earlier
Facebook photo.
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Husband Killed in 1-5 Wreck
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Dr. Stephen
Fritz honored at
public memorial
B y O livia O livia
T he P ortland O bserver
Dr. Stephen Fritz, husband of
P o rtla n d C ity C o m m issio n e r
Am anda Fritz, died Sept. 24 in a
chain reaction crash on 1-5 near
Salem involving multiple vehicles
and wet pavem ent. The accident
also critically injured Cary Marie
Fairchild, a co-w orker and long
tim e fam ily friend who was com-
m uting with Fritz to the Oregon
State H ospital where they both
worked. Fairchild, the wife o f a
Portland Fire and Rescue em
ployee, suffered significant brain
inj ury and remains in the hospital ’ s
intensive care unit.
On Sunday, crowds of people
gathered at Terry Shrunk Park in
downtown Portland to celebrate Dr.
Fritz’s life, one that had touched
many people and was said to have
brought so much light into the com
munity. Many people came in cos
tume at the encouragement of the
Fritz family, who released a state
ment inviting people to show up
wearing something “appropriate to
honor him and/or amuse yourself
and others.”
The memorial also celebrated
Fritz’s membership in the Portland
Cacophony Society, a group of ad
venture-seeking community mem
bers with an interest in the unique
and bizarre. Fritz was known to play
Mondo Croquet with the society, a
version o f croquet played with
sledge hammers and bowling balls.
O f her late father’s personality
and beloved place in the com m u
nity, d au g h ter A lessan d ra d e
scribed him as “unapologetically
kind and apologetically him self.”
Awarded $562,000 for Police Brutality
Surveillance
video recorded
encounter
A jury has awarded more than
$562,000 to a man Portland Police
knocked face-down to the ground
before being repeatedly pummeled
and zapped with a Taser.
Jason Cox, said the brutal treat-
ment came without provocation
when police stopped him for inves
tigation of drunken driving.
Jurors in Portland deliberated
about 4 Yi hours Monday before
returning their verdict.
Now 40, Cox testified that he
thought he was going to be beaten
to death after three officers took
him into custody in a parking lot
Jason Cox following his arrest.
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OLCC Worker Wins Discrimination
C lassifieds
An arbiter has ordered the state
of Oregon to give back a job to an
African-American who accused co-
workers o f throwing “Heil Hitler”
salutes and leaving a noose at his
w orkstation in the state liquor
agency’s warehouse.
The worker, 40-year-old Gene
Summerfield, accused the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission of dis-
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