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Danielle Outlaw of Oakland, Calif., was sworn in Monday as the new Chief of
Police for the Portland Police Bureau. She is the third woman to be police chief in
Portland history and the first African-American woman to hold the position. Outlaw
was hired in August by Mayor Ted Wheeler following a national search.
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jail. Distracted driving leading to a crash
approximately every three hours on Or-
egon roads, the Oregon Department of
Transportation said.
Smith Points to ‘Entrenched Bias’
After serving nine years for a fumbled ho-
tel room heist in Las Vegas trying to obtain
his own memorabilia, former football star
and acquitted murder suspect OJ Simpson
was released from prison
on parole in the dead of
night Sunday. He plans
on staying in Vegas for
a while then moving to
Florida where some of
his family are, a prospect
that has generated oppo-
sition by Florida officials.
In press conference last week, Multnomah
County Commis-
sioner
Loretta
Smith called for
an
independent
investigation into
Multnomah Coun-
ty’s “entrenched
bias.” The com-
ments come on the
heels of the firing
of former public
health director Tricia Tillman, who said
she was let go unfairly and pointed to sys-
temic racism as the culprit.
Richardson calls Gay Immoral
Russians Targeted Election Ads
Simpson Free after 9 Years
Chief Outlaw Takes the Oath
October 4, 2017
Oregon Secretary of State Dennis Rich-
ardson has come under fire for answering
“yes” to the question of whether or not it
is “immoral” to be gay. Democratic Party
of Oregon Chair Jeanne Atkins said Rich-
ardson’s comment, made during an OPB
interview, “flies in the face of Oregon’s
values” and called for prominent Oregon
Republicans Greg Walden and Knute Bue-
hler to condemn the statement
Driving Ban for all Hand Devices
A new law went into effect Sunday that
bans all cellphone and
electronic use for driv-
ers, not just talking or
texting but anything
“hands on,” with repeat
offenders facing steeper
fines and up to a year in
The Russian government used a so-called
troll farm to distribute Facebook ads
during the 2016 presidential campaign to
target audiences in Ferguson, Mo., and
Baltimore with references to Black Lives
Matter, two locations where black men
were killed in police shootings, Facebook
revealed last week.
Schools Hit with Racist Graffiti
Two men are suspected of scrawling rac-
ist graffiti and vandalism across multiple
elementary schools in the David Douglas
School District according to police and
multiple reports. Last week Menlo Park
Elementary School was marked with ra-
cial slurs and similar graffiti was found
Monday morning by administrators at Mill
Park, Ventura Park and Lincoln Park ele-
mentary schools.