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April 29, 2015
Week
in
Review
The
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A shooting outside a northeast
Portland strip club left three
Devastating Earthquake
victims injured early Saturday
Soldiers loaded supplies onto morning. Police suspect the
helicopters Tuesday and headed violence was gang-related.
into the remote villages cut off
since Saturday’s devastating New Leader Might Sue
earthquake in Nepal. Prime Nkenge Harmon Johnson, the
Minister Sushil Koirala said the new president of the Portland
death toll from the disaster -- Urban League, has threatened
already nearing 5,000 -- could to sue over her termination last
year as Gov. John Kitzhaber’s
reach double that figure.
communications director, saying
Colleges Shut Down
she was forced to step down after
Corinthian Colleges will shut criticizing First Lady Cylvia
down all of its campuses, Hayes and asking the governor’s
including Heald and Everest closest advisors not to blur the
campuses in Oregon. Corinthian lines between state interest and
was one of the country’s largest other matters.
for-profit educational institutions,
but crashed amid a cash shortage U.S. Attorney Resigns
U.S. Attorney General for
and fraud allegations.
Oregon
Amanda
Marshall
Arrest in Fatal Car Crash
has submitted her resignation
Gresham resident Miranda Ashley effective May 15. Marshall is
Calvin, 19, was arrested Sunday under investigation for stalking
for a fatal hit-and-run crash her top drug prosecutor, Scott
Saturday night that killed Jerrie Kerin.
Obama Condemns Rioting
Speaks to ‘crisis’
in community
policing
(AP) --
President Barack
Obama on Tuesday condemned
rioting in Baltimore, saying there
was “no excuse” for the violence,
but acknowledged a “slow-rolling
crisis” in community policing, es-
pecially in treatment of African
Americans.
“We have seen too many in-
stances of what appears to be
police officers interacting with
individuals -- primarily African
American, often poor -- in ways
that raise troubling questions,”
Obama told reporters at the White
House.
“I think there are police de-
partments that have to do some
soul-searching. I think there’s
some communities that have to
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we as a country have to do some
soul-searching.”
Obama was reacting to the vi-
olence that erupted in Baltimore
after the funeral of Freddie Gray,
a 25-year-old African American
man who died after suffering a
spine injury while in police cus-
tody.
Youths torched cars, pelted
police with stones and ransacked
stores in the US East Coast port
city, prompting authorities to call
in the National Guard and impose
a nighttime curfew beginning late
Tuesday.
“This has been a slow-rolling
crisis that has been going on for a
long time. This is not new. And we
shouldn’t pretend that it’s new,”
Obama said, referring to tensions
in US communities over police
actions.
The president said if the coun-
try wanted to solve the problem, it
needed not only to invest in police
training, but also in early educa-
tion and criminal justice reform.
“That requires more than just
the occasional news report or task
force,” he said.
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Loretta Lynch was sworn in Monday as U.S. attorney general, the
first African-American woman to serve as the nation’s top law
enforcement official. Speaking before family members, Justice De-
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