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Barbara Bush Dies at 92
Former first lady Barbara
Bush, the husband and
mother of two presidents,
died Tuesday at her home
in Houston, Texas. She
was 92. Bush passed
away shortly after decid-
ing to forgo further medical treatments for
her failing health.
Baseball Park Offers Made
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during the speech and Sundaram has been
suspended from playing.
Investors hoping to bring Major League
Baseball to Portland announced Tuesday that
they’ve made offers on possible stadium lo-
cations. One proposal is for industrial prop-
erty in northwest Portland and the other is
Portland Public Schools’ Blanchard Educa-
tion Services Center, which is less than half a
mile from the Moda Center in north Portland.
Blazers Open NBA Playoffs
Starbucks Orders Bias Training
U.S. and Allies Bomb Syria
Starbucks said Tuesday it will close more
than 8,000 company-owned stores across
the nation for one afternoon to train its
staff on how to avoid “racial bias” after
the arrest of two black men at one of its
Philadelphia shops, an incident the coffee
giant’s CEO called “reprehensible.”
Syria was bombed Friday night by the Unit-
ed States, Britain, and France in response
to a chemical attack one week earlier
which killed at least 42 adult and children
civilians outside Damascus. The strikes
targeted a chemical weapons research cen-
ter, storage facility, and an equipment facil-
ity and command center.
UP Student’s Speech Offends
A University of Portland award ceremony for
athletes was disrupted Sunday night when
the emcee of the event, senior men’s tennis
player Goutham Sundaram, used his opening
speech as a platform to broadcast his sexual
conquests, including “getting white women
to sleep with brown men.” Several student
athletes and coach Terry Porter walked out
The Portland Trail Blazers faced game two
of their best of seven opening round play-
off series against the New Orleans Pelicans
Tuesday in the Moda Center. The Blazers
were hoping to square the series after an
opening round loss before moving to New
Orleans for game three on Thursday.
Mayor Commits to Reforms
Committed to fighting back against the
Trump Administration, Mayor Ted Wheeler
defended the city’s policies of inclusion and
vowed to fight for climate change, gun con-
trol and the protection of immigrants, “even
if it means going to jail,” during his annual
State of the City Speech on Thursday.
Shelter Shooting Draws Fire
Mental health safeguards may have fallen short
by d anny P eterson
t he P ortland o bserver
Federally mandated reforms to better
protect people with mental disabilities
from being shot by police during a distur-
bance appear to have fallen short of pre-
venting the recent deadly officer involved
shooting at a southeast Portland homeless
shelter, according to the Albina Ministerial
Alliance, the civil rights advocacy group
from the African American community.
The Alliance’s Coalition for Justice and
Police Reform, released a statement Thurs-
day critical of Portland police in the shoot-
ing of a 48-year old man wielding a knife
who appeared to be having a mental health
Established 1970
P ubLiSher :
e ditor :
Mark Washington, Sr.
Michael Leighton
e xecutive d irector :
Rakeem Washington
a dvertiSiNg M aNager :
Office Manager/Classifieds:
c reative d irector :
r ePorter /w eb e ditor :
Leonard Latin
Lucinda Baldwin
Paul Neufeldt
Danny Peterson
P ubLic r eLatioNS : Mark
Washington Jr.
o ffice a SSiStaNt /S aLeS : Shawntell
Washington
crisis.
“Although all the facts of this deadly
force shooting are not in and the investiga-
tion is not complete this case could possi-
bly be a major step backward for the Port-
land Police Bureau in the use of ‘excessive
force against persons with actual or per-
ceived mental illness,’” the statement read.
The coalition was a party to a settlement
agreement with U.S. Department of Justice
four years ago that, after a 2012 federal in-
vestigation, found Portland police were us-
ing excessive force against them mentally
ill people.
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