2017
Washington
Classic
‘City
of
Roses’
Volume XLVI • Number 23
Fighting
Racism
10 youth teams
participate in
annual tournament
Advocates
say political
climate has
emboldened hate
See photos, Page 9
See Metro, page 11
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Wednesday • June 7, 2017
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Photo by C hrista M C i ntyre /t he P ortland o bserver
Rev. Jesse Jackson visits with local government officials and church leaders to help a city heal after a double murder on public transit committed by a man making
racist and anti-Muslim taunts. Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith (left) brought the national leader to northeast Portland’s Augustana Lutheran Church on
Friday where she and church pastor Rev. Mark Knutson (right) introduced him.
Healing from the Trauma
Rev. Jesse Jackson offers a path forward after transit murders
C hrista M C i ntyre
t he P ortland o bserver
Rev. Jesse Jackson, the national civil
rights leader, former presidential candi-
date and friend and political ally to the
late Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. says
by
Portland can reject a brand of violence
in the aftermath of a double murder on
public transit tied to a racist incident and
instead send a powerful and multicultural
message of peace and unity to the world.
Jackson came to Portland on Friday
to help the city heal from the May 26 at-
tack on a TriMet light rail train near the
Hollywood Transit Station. It happened
after three male passengers were stabbed
coming to the aid of two teenage girls of
multicultural backgrounds, one wearing
a hijab, who were being harassed by a
white man making racist and anti-Muslim
taunts.
Jackson spoke Friday at Augustana
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