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June 17, 2015
Week
in
Review
The
Fremont Bridge Takeover
Drivers on the Fremont Bridge
were stuck in traffic Sunday night
as scores of other motorists illegal-
ly stopped traffic for an organized
event known as a bridge takeover.
Witnesses reported to police that
multiple vehicles stopped traffic
while drivers performed danger-
ous burnouts, doughnuts and other
tricks.
NAACP Leader Resigns
The
NAACP
Spokane Chapter
president Rachel
Dolezal resigned
Monday amidst
an uproar she was
falsely portraying
her race as Afri-
can American when her parents
say she is white. Dolezal, 37, sued
Howard University for discrimi-
nation in 2002, the year she grad-
uated from the historically black
college. Her cased was dismissed,
but since about this time or earli-
er, she has claimed to be African
American.
ida’s No. 2 leader, who command-
ed its powerful Yemeni affiliate,
a website for the group revealed
Tuesday. The death is the biggest
blow against the global network
since the killing of Osama bin
Laden and eliminates a charismat-
ic leader at a time when it is vying
with the Islamic State group for
the mantle of global jihad.
Fritz-Fairchild Act Passed
Gov. Kate Brown signed the
Fritz-Fairchild Act last week in
honor of Portland City Commis-
sioner Amanda Fritz’s late hus-
band Dr. Steven Fritz and his
co-worker Cary Fairchild, who
both died in a car crash on I-5 in
September. The law provides for
life-saving median barriers on
about 100 miles of interstate high-
ways where the space between
opposing lanes of traffic measures
100 feet or less.
Burnside Bridge Fatality
A man was killed and his compan-
ion injured when a car jumped the
curb and hit them while using the
sidewalk on the Burnside Bridge
Sunday afternoon. Police said the
59-year-old driver may have suf-
fered a medical event that led him
to lose control of his vehicle.
Strip Club Trafficked Child
The Oregon Liquor Control Com-
mission is proposing to cancel its
liquor license for the Stars Caba-
ret and Steak House in Beaverton
because of the prostitution of a
13-year-old girl and other viola-
Al-Qaida No. 2 Killed
A U.S. airstrike has killed Al-Qa- tions at the strip club in 2012.
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Student and community activists protest the arming of Portland State University campus security
during a November board meeting.
Final Approval for Armed Police at PSU
The Portland State University
Board of Trustees has given final
approval to a controversial mea-
sure to allow a select number of
campus security officers to carry
and use guns.
Students, faculty, and alumni
have protested the decision heav-
ily, and last week’s approval by a
vote of 9 to 3 came before a meet-
ing in which dozens of activists
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tried to dissuade the board from
pushing forward with the decision.
The process started in 2013 with
the establishment of a task force
that presented the idea of arming
campus security after its first six
months of meeting. The board
approved the recommendation in
December, at which point a com-
mittee to plan the implementation
was formed.
Armed security guards will be
added to the existing unarmed cam-
pus security force over the next three
years, at a cost that Kevin Reynolds,
Portland State University vice presi-
dent for finance and administration,
roughly estimates to be $1.2 million
for an roughly 10 officers, which is
the number needed to post two offi-
cers around the clock seven days a
week, officials said.
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