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November 23, 2016
Protest Organizers Arrested
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Three members of Portland’s Re-
sistance, the justice group which
has sponsored protests against
Donald Trump since his Nov. 8
election, were arrested Tuesday
during a Portland student soli-
darity protest. The protest leaders
claim the arrests were a targeted
effort by Mayor Charlie Hales,
something the mayor called inac-
curate and dangerous.
said. Officers learned there was a
disturbance outside the club and
that an African American male
fire several shots toward a parked
Hundreds of Students March group were encouraging students vehicle containing several people
Hundreds of Portland Public to block traffic.
and fled the scene.
Schools students marched from
Shooting Outside Strip Club
Holladay Park to downtown Tues-
Obama Clemency Milestone
Two females were injured in a
day in one of the latest protests
President Obama announced he
shooting Friday night outside the
of president-elect Donald Trump.
would free 79 more drug offend-
Jags Clubhouse, a strip bar located
Portland Police said that as the
ers from federal prison Tues-
at 605 N. Columbia Blvd., police
night progressed, adults in the
day, pushing the total number of
commutations under his tenure to
over 1,000. With this new grant,
Obama has handed out more com-
mutations than the past 11 presi-
dents combined.
The
in
Week Review
Hillary Clinton Increases
Popular Vote Margin
While the number of votes for both
president-elect Donald Trump and
his former Democratic rival Hil-
lary Clinton continue to increase,
the gap is widening, with Clinton
expanding her popular vote lead
over Trump. According to new
figures released by The Associat-
ed Press, Clinton received more
than 1.5 million votes more than
her Republican rival.
Bus Accident Kills 5 Kids
A school bus driver has been
charged in connection to a crash
that killed five young children in
Tennessee. The bus was travel-
ing at a “high rate of speed, well
above the posted speed limit of
30 mph,” police said. Of the five
deaths, three were in fourth grade,
one was in first grade and the other
was a kindergartner.
Bomb Threat at PCC Cascade
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Two buildings on the Portland
Community College Cascade
campus were briefly evacuat-
ed Tuesday morning follow-
ing a phoned-in bomb threat.
According to school officials,
the Student Union and Cascade
Hall were evacuated just before
11 a.m. No suspicious devices
were found and police deemed
the area safe.