Page 2
December 9, 2015
Established 1970
USPS 959 680
4747 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.,
Portland, OR 97211
The Portland Observer welcomes freelance submissions.
Manuscripts and photographs should be clearly labeled
and will be returned if accompanied by a self addressed
envelope. All created design display ads become the
sole property of the newspaper and cannot be used in
other publications or personal usage without the writ-
ten consent of the general manager, unless the client
has purchased the composition of such ad. © 2008 THE
PORTLAND OBSERVER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,
REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITH-
OUT PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED. The Portland Ob-
server--Oregon’s Oldest Multicultural Publication--is a
member of the National Newspaper Association--Found-
ed in 1885, and The National Advertising Representative
Amalgamated Publishers, Inc, New York, NY, and The
West Coast Black Publishers Association
Mark Washington, Sr.
e ditor : Michael Leighton
P ublisher :
e xecutive d irector :
Rakeem Washington
A dvertising M AnAger : Leonard Latin
Office Manager/Classifieds:
Lucinda Baldwin
c reAtive d irector : Paul Neufeldt
r ePorter /P hotogrAPher :
Olivia Olivia
CALL 503-288-0033
FAX 503-288-0015
news@portlandobserver.com
ads@portlandobserver.com
subscription@portlandobserver.com
Postmaster: Send address changes to
Portland Observer , PO Box 3137 ,
Portland, OR 97208
FBI: Killers were ‘Radicalized’
(AP) — The couple who carried out the
San Bernardino massacre had been radical-
ized and had taken target practice at area
gun ranges, in one case within days of the
attack that killed 14 people, the FBI said
Monday.
In a chilling twist, authorities dis-
closed that a year before the rampage,
Syed Rizwan Farook’s co-workers at the
county health department underwent “ac-
tive-shooter” training in the very confer-
ence room where he and his wife opened
fire on them last Wednesday.
It was not immediately clear whether
Farook attended the autumn 2014 training
session on how to react to a workplace
gunman, county spokeswoman Felisa
Cardona said. It was held for members
of the department’s environmental health
division, where Farook was a restaurant
inspector.
On Monday, one employee in the room
when Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened
fire on a holiday luncheon Wednesday said
colleagues tried to do just as they had been
trained — find protection and stay quiet.
“Unfortunately the room just didn’t pro-
vide a whole lot of protection,” said Cor-
win Porter, assistant county health director.
A photograph emerged Monday showing the suspects in the San Bernardino mas-
sacre moving through customs in Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport last year.
Farook, a 28-year-old born in the U.S. and had been for some time,” said David
to a Pakistani family, and Malik, a 29-year- Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s
old immigrant from Pakistan, were killed Los Angeles office. But he said investiga-
in a gunbattle with police hours after the tors are still trying to establish precisely
bloodbath.
when, where and by whom they were in-
“We believe both were radicalized fluenced.
Divisions Erupt on Muslims
The
The Dec. 2 massacre at a San Bernardino
public services building that authorities
have tied to a Muslim couple carrying out
an act of terrorism have made Muslims in
America an issue in the presidential race.
On Sunday President Barack Obama urged
Americans not to make Muslims scape-
goats for the attack but a day later, Re-
publican presidential front-runner Donald
Trump called for a ban on Muslims enter-
ing the United States.
Week in Review
Oregon Judges Appointed
Gov. Kate Brown announced appointments
to the Oregon Supreme Court and the Or-
egon Court of Appeals Monday, includ-
ing the first Asian American to sit on the
Oregon Supreme Court, Lynn Nakamoto.
Roger DeHoog will become the second
Asian-Pacific American to serve on the
Court of Appeals, and Scott Shott was ap-
pointed to the Court of Appeals.
Kanye and Kim Baby
Celebrated rapper Kanye West and his wife
Kim Kardashian announced the birth of
their second child early Saturday. On Mon-
day, Kardashian revealed their newborn
son’s name, Saint West, over social media.
One Dead in U-Haul Accident
A car crashed during a rainstorm Monday
afternoon killing the driver of a U-Haul
truck at Northeast Glisan Street between
91st and 92nd avenues around 2 p.m.