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June 27, 2018
Black Shoppers File Lawsuits
(AP) — Five lawsuits alleging
racial profiling where black shop-
pers were approached or detailed
on unfounded accusations of theft
at businesses in the Portland area
have been filed in the last month.
In one of the complaints, a pair
of high school students describe
being followed by the manager of
a Sunglass Hut in a Portland mall
last February, then being accused of
theft. The manager later admitted he
had misplaced the item he thought
they stole, according to the suit.
In another, a man described
having a bag grabbed and forcibly
searched after leaving a clothing
store in downtown Portland.
One complaint describes Jamaal
Winchester, 38, being stopped and
detained by a Walmart employee
as he left the store carrying a fish-
ing rod.
In video, Winchester can be
heard loudly objecting to the
accusation, and saying that he
would show his receipt to the po-
lice if they were called.
“She told me I stole,” Win-
chester can be heard saying,
pointing to a store employee. “I’ll
show the police my receipt.”
Winchester is asking for
$55,000 for emotional suffering
and attorney fees.
A spokesman for Walmart,
wouldn’t comment on specifics
of the incident, citing the pending
litigation, but said that the compa-
ny was aware of the lawsuit, was
taking it seriously and was doing a
review of what took place.
Demonstrators encamp on the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building on
Southwest Macadam Avenue to protest President Trump’s immigration policies . (KATU photo)
Not Backing Down
Protestors
encamped at
ICE building
Federal law enforcement offi-
cers distributed notices Monday
to protesters encamped outside
the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) building on
Southwest Macadam Avenue or-
dering them to vacate the proper-
ty, under threat of arrest, even as
the protestors called for more to
join them.
“While demonstrators have a
lawful right to assemble and voice
their concerns, blocking the build-
ing’s driveways or entrances are
not permitted under federal law,”
U.S. Attorney for Oregon Billy J.
Williams said.
The notice came a few hours af-
Week
in
Review
The
ICE Prisoners Supported
Hundreds of people gathered for a
makeshift Sunday service outside
the federal prison in Sheridan in
solidarity with 123 men who are
being held there after being arrest-
ed at the U.S.-Mexico border un-
der President Trump’s “zero toler-
ance” immigration policy. Some
of the prisoners waved back, hold-
ing messages to the windows, and
flags it appeared they had drawn
themselves.
Travel Ban Deemed Legal
en’t executing them” in response
to a post on Facebook trying to
raise donations to help immi-
grant families separated at the
U.S.-Mexico border. A spokes-
man for the Oregon military de-
partment said Gerod Martin, 21, a
military police officer from Salem
admitted to the post.
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up at the appointed time and sure
enough, Lillard appeared and be-
gan handing out shoes. After the
shoes ran out, he began signing
autographs.
Fees for Vacation Rentals
The Portland City Council last
week tacked two new fees on
short-term vacation rentals, a $4
a night booking fee, which would
go toward housing and homeless
initiatives, and an additional 2
percent fee, which would go to-
ward tourism marketing. They
come in addition to 11.5 percent
Annual Naked Bike Ride
lodging taxes already collected by
The World Naked Bike Ride rolled Airbnb and other platforms on be-
through the streets of north and half of the rental operators.
northeast Portland Saturday night,
starting from Cathedral Park in St. Joe Jackson Battles Cancer
Johns. Thousands of folks took off Joe Jackson - father of Michael,
their clothes for the 6 mile bike Janet and their famous siblings - is
ride to highlight the vulnerability now battling with terminal cancer.
of cyclists everywhere and decry The 89-year-old patriarch entered
society’s dependence on pollu- the hospital last week in the end
stages of cancer and was surround-
tion-based transport.
ed by his wife Katherine Jackson
and other family members.
The Supreme Court upheld Pres-
ident Trump’s travel ban Tuesday
in a 5-4 ruling along partisan lines,
with Chief Justice John Roberts
writing for the conservative ma-
jority. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in
a blistering dissent, said the court
was wrong to ignore Trump’s
charged statements about Mus-
lims to ban entry to the U.S. from
seven majority Muslim countries.
She also compared the opinion to
the 1944 court opinion allowing Lillard Tweets Free Shoes
the internment of Japanese-Amer- Portland Trail Blazers guard
Damian Lillard tweeted Mon-
icans during World War II.
day evening that he had shoes to
Guardsman Disciplined
give away for Portland kids “If
An Oregon Army National you wear a size 12 or 12.5 meet
Guardsman is being disciplined me at Irving Park at 8 p.m. shoe
for posting “they’re lucky we ar- giveaway.” A U-Haul truck pulled
Established 1970
ter federal police officers entered
the building in the dead of night to
secure government property.
“Occupy ICE PDX” organized
the protest to respond to the
Trump Administration’s recent
“zero tolerance” immigration pol-
icy which has resulted in the sepa-
ration of nearly 2,300 immigrant
children from their parents arrest-
ed at the U.S.-Mexico border.
In another protest downtown,
hundreds gathered on the steps
Considering Presidential Run
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.,
says he is considering a 2020
presidential run, confirming spec-
ulation that’s been mounting for
months. Merkley is riding a po-
litical high after his attacks on the
Trump administration’s policy of
splitting up migrant families en-
tering the country illegally.
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