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Page 2 May 4, 2016 at Arrested School C ontinued from f ront situation. The amended discipline state- ment has some facts in her daugh- ter’s favor, including an acknowl- edgment that the other student swung at her irst and the fact that another student present had shout- ed for Emaujah to be “left alone.” A description of Emaujah calling out that she wanted to “scrap” with the other student involved was removed. “Why would someone say ‘Leave Emaujah alone’ if my daughter was being the aggres- sor?” Pratcher asks, “Emaujah has never been in trouble for ighting at Beaumont.” Neither the original nor the re- vised discipline form stated any- thing about Emaujah striking the substitute teacher. “I took her to school at 9 a.m. and at about 9:45 a.m. I get a call from Emaujah saying ‘Mom, they’re trying to arrest me! I didn’t do anything!’ And then the phone hangs up,” Pratcher recalls. “So I’m calling the ofice trying to igure out what’s going on [and when someone answers] I hear her screaming and crying in the back- ground.” When Portland police came to Beaumont on the day of the arrest, Emaujah was then handcuffed and transported to a juvenile facility where she took a mugshot photo and was ingerprinted. Upon returning to school, her daughter received additional dis- cipline referrals for miscellaneous inane reasons, Pratcher said, the last of which led to her permanent separation from the school. On April 15, she received an email from Principal Vimegnon saying that her daughter had been suspended in order to investigate grounds for expulsion. The listed the reasons for her suspension as “open deiance,” “insubordina- tion” and “willful disobedience.” Pratcher is upset that the i- nal incident that got her daughter into trouble was for having a cell phone on her desk in math class, not in use, but for refusing to hand it over to her teacher when asked. Principal Vimegnon said Beau- mont does have a rule allowing students to have cell phones for academic reasons – such as cal- culating – yet it was deemed by Emaujah’s teacher that her inten- tions were non-academic. Pratcher said if her daughter recorded a video with her phone, then everyone would believe her, but says the school is so stern, it wants to keep phones away from students. For students at risk of expul- Wells Fargo Presents the sion, a hearing between the fam- ily and school oficials is held to determine a inal course of action. Emaujah’s hearing was held at an offsite location. The over two hour long meet- ing addressed some of the issues at hand, yet didn’t tackle any of the questions both Pratcher and other organization members also present at the meeting had about Beaumont’s conduct. The only real conclusion reached was that Emaujah’s behavior did not con- stitute grounds for expulsion. Despite the school’s decision to keep Emaujah at Beaumont, both Pratcher and her daughter feel uncomfortable with the school’s practices and have chosen to re- main at great distance. “What student would want to come back after being treated like this? There are things happen- ing in the school that need to be addressed. My daughter is being traumatized and arrested under a false report, like why is that not being addressed? The school is being treated like a juvenile delin- quency center, but only to speciic 2016 Good in the Hood The Music and Food Festival Week in Review Sprouting Recreational Leaves murder in the death of Ervaeua The Oregon Liquor Control Com- mission has approved its irst group of marijuana growers under the new recreational system. Eight growers are the irst to receive Rec- reational Marijuana Producer li- censes, with the OLCC planning to issue around 850 licenses this year. June 24, 25, 26 Right Ballot on its Way If you made a recent change to your political afiliation, you may end up receiving the wrong bal- lot in the mail, and a short delay in receiving the updated one. Any changes made close to the regis- tration deadline should get their new ballots next week, elections oficials said. 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Three Charged in Woman’s Death Three men have been indicted for Established 1970 P ublisher : e ditor : Mark Washington, Sr. Michael Leighton e xecutive d irector : Rakeem Washington Ofice Manager/Classiieds: c reative d irector : Lucinda Baldwin Leonard Latin r ePorter /W eb e ditor : Cervante Pope Ronchelle Herring who was killed in August 2014 in a suspected gang-related shooting at an apart- ment complex at Southeast 151st and Powell, police said Tu e s d a y. Herring, 21, was preg- nant at the time she was killed. DeAnthony Simmons, Geontae Brachaurd Jones and Demetrius Ray Brown also face burglary and weapons charges. Call to End Police 48-Hour Rule The Community Oversight Ad- visory Board formally requested that both Mayor Charlie Hales and Police Chief Larry O’Dea nix the 48-hour rule, which gives oficers that use deadly force 48 hours be- fore they are required to answer any administrative questions. The rule is part of the police union’s contract with the city, which ex- pires in the middle of the year, so the next mayor will likely have to address the issue. ---------------------- USPS 959 680 ------------------ 4747 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97211 he 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 newspa- per and cannot be used in other publications or personal usage without the written consent of the general manager, unless the client has purchased the composition of such ad. © 2008 THE PORTLAND OBSERVER. 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She’s been told the district at- torney has not yet responded to the juvenile facility’s request, leaving the exact reasoning for her daughter’s arrest still unanswered. As it stands, there are still no ofi- cial charges against her daughter. “Somebody else needs to be held accountable. No one is being held accountable for what they did. I can’t trust anybody. I’m the only person that can advocate for her. She doesn’t know what’s go- ing on, she’s 12,” Pratcher said. CALL 503-288-0033 news@portlandobserver.com FAX 503-288-0015 ads@portlandobserver.com subscription@portlandobserver.com Postmaster: Send address changes to Portland Observer , PO Box 3137 , Portland, OR 97208