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CAREERS Special Edition Page 2 August 15, 2018 Parents Want Counselors Not Cops Black parent advocates vying for fair treatment in public schools are addressing the rise of police officers in schools and its negative impact on students of color, as well as other equity issues in the school system. Parent activist Sheila Warren of the Portland Parent Union, in collaboration with the Dignity in Schools campaign, invites the public to join them for a “Coun- selors not Cops” march on Friday, Aug. 17 at 6 p.m. starting at Al- berta Park in northeast Portland. The group will then walk to King School a few blocks away for a news conference and rally. The following day, on Saturday starting at 9 a.m., the parents will facilitate a day-long “Trust Cir- cle” at Concordia University in northeast Portland with the goal of advancing equity and justice for Portland-area parents, students and teachers. This free and open to the public event will take place at Con- cordia’s Hagen Campus Center. Warren, a long time Afri- The Week in Review Employee Hijacks Plane A 29-year-old Horizon Air sui- cidal employee hijacked a 76-seat plane from the maintenance area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Friday night and some- how managed to take off. Richard Russell remained in contact with an air traffic controller up until he crashed in a fiery ball near Ketron Island. No one else was on the plane and no one else was killed. Street Racers Block Bridge Established 1970 USPS 959 680 4747 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97211 CALL 503-288-0033 • FAX 503-288-0015 P ublisher : e ditor : Mark Washington, Sr. Michael Leighton A dvertising M AnAger : Office Manager/Classifieds: PO QR code C reAtive d ireCtor : r ePorter /W eb e ditor : Leonard Latin Lucinda Baldwin Paul Neufeldt The Portland Observer welcomes freelance submissions. Man- uscripts and photographs should be clearly labeled and will be returned if accompanied by a self addressed envelope. 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We are of the belief that Sheila Warren can-American activist who start- ed the Portland Parent Union in 2009, told the Portland Observer that the rise of cops in schools has lead to an increase in referrals to the juvenile justice system. “They not trained for children; they’re trained to be a cop. And sometimes they come in and make it much worse because they want to arrest [them],” Warren said. More police officers in schools nationally has resulted in dispro- portionately high school-based ar- rests for black boys, according to a 2012 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. she’ll pull through, and her spirits are that of such.’ Governor on Spiritual Self Yoga and meditation suit Gov. Kate Brown just fine, she told reporters Thursday when asked if she follows a certain faith. ‘I believe very much that each of us is a spiritual being, and that’s how I see the world.” She added that people should treat human beings with respect. The remarks followed criticism by conserva- tive evangelist Franklin Graham that the governor needed to be a Christian. Omarosa says Trump a Racist Donald Trump is a racist who has used the N-word repeatedly, Oma- rosa Manigault Newman, the once prominent African Ameri- can in the White House, claims in a new searing memoir. The future president was caught on mic utter- ing the racial slur “multiple times” during the making of his reality TV show The Apprentice and there is a tape to prove it, according to Newman, citing three unnamed sources. In response,Trump called her a lowlife and a dog. Lloyd Center Music Venue Live Nation, the largest live enter- tainment company in the world, announced last week that they have signed a long-term lease with the Lloyd Center mall to site a venue with a bar, lounge and dining options on the third floor of the former Nordstrom store.
