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May 11, 2016
The
Week
in
Review
Festival announced Thursday that the
Timbers will be the Grand Marshal of
the Spirit Mountain Casino Grand Floral
Parade. The team’s Alaska Airlines loat
will be decorated in green and white,
with a huge soccer fan and Timber Joey.
Quits Job for Election
Ferguson’s New Chief
House District 43
candidate Roberta
Phillip-Robbins re-
signed her job as a
Multnomah County
Youth and Gang Vi-
olence Prevention
Specialist Friday to
avoid a conlict with federal law. The
Hatch Act states no federal-funded gov-
ernment employee can run for a partisan
ofice, thus leaving Phillip-Robbins with
two choices. She will continue on in her
Egg Shooter Sent to Jail
race against Tawna Sanchez for state rep-
A 68-year-old resident of southeast resentative in the May 17 Primary.
Portland was arrested last week after
he retaliated with gunire following 42nd Ave Mural for Prince
his house getting egged twice. William A mural depicting the purple one,
Dean Thomas was booked on charges of Prince, has been erected behind Mo-
reckless endangerment, unlawful use of tivasi Coffee on Northeast 42nd and
a weapon and discharging a irearm in Prescott. The mural was painted by
Ashley Montague who also painted a
the city.
mural of Michael Brown at the Bonire
Grand Champ Timbers are Grand Marshals Lounge in southeast Portland, which is
Following the Portland Timbers irst likely to be covered up soon according
Major League Soccer title, the Rose to the bar’s owner.
Delrish Moss was
sworn in Monday to
become the irst per-
manent black chief
to lead the embattled
police force in Fer-
guson, Mo. The St.
Louis suburb was
where 18-year-old Michael Brown, who
was black and unarmed, was fatally shot
by a white oficer in 2014, leading to the
Black Lives Matter movement.
Women’s Camp Must Move
A recently constructed homeless camp
for women, located in the Lents neigh-
borhood at Southeast 93rd and Wood-
stock, is already being taken down by
city oficials. The camp was meant to
shelter homeless women that have been
sexually assaulted, but went up on Port-
land Development Commission-owned
land without permission.
Providence Hospital Sued
The parents of a deceased premature
baby boy are suing Providence’s St.
Vincent Medical Center for $3 million
after learning the ashes they received
were that of another deceased child.
Norma Arellano and Sergio Maldonado
held funeral services and family gather-
ings with the misidentiied ashes, learn-
ing ive months later that those received
belonged to a baby girl.
Obama to Visit Hiroshima
The White House announced on Tues-
day that President Obama will be visiting
Hiroshima May 27 as part of his trips to
Japan and Vietnam, the irst president to
ever visit the city destroyed by a nucle-
ar bomb in an attack to end World War
II. Obama will be meeting with Japan’s
Prime Minister to discuss a continuing
peace without nuclear weapons.
ACLU Blasts
Sheriff’s Probe
by M ichael l eighton
p ortland o bserver e ditor
An investigation that
cleared
Multnomah
County Sheriff Dan Sta-
ton of criminal wrongdo-
ing failed to account for
actions that may have vi-
olated civil protections,
according to the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union
Multnomah County
of Oregon.
Sheriff Dan Staton
David Rogers, exec-
utive director of the ACLU of Oregon, said
the Oregon Attorney General Department of
Justice’s conclusions, released last week, only
represent part of the picture.
“The DOJ’s indings strongly suggest to us
that Sheriff Staton violated civil law that pro-
tects Oregonians from state surveillance as well
as free speech and association rights,” Rogers
said.
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