October 31, 2018
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Gov. Kate Brown recites a prayer for peace at Congregation Beth Israel in northwest Portland on
Sunday during a vigil that drew support from a diverse group of local faith-based leaders, elected
officials, and people of all backgrounds to memorialize the victims of a mass shooting just one day
earlier at a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh, Penn.
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Portland vigil follows
attack on Jewish temple
Several interfaith leaders, elected officials and
people of all backgrounds gathered in Portland Sun-
day to support the victims of a mass shooting and
call for peace, one day after a white gunman appar-
ently bent on racist and extremist postings against
immigrants walked into a Jewish synagogue in Pitts-
burgh, Penn. and killed 11 people.
Congregation Beth Israel, at 1972 N.W. Flan-
ders St., hosted the afternoon ceremony. Speeches,
quotes from the Hebrew Bible, and singing, includ-
ing a rendition of the civil rights anthem “We Shall
Overcome,” filled the Portland temple as dozens
locked hands in solidarity.
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Gov. Kate Brown, Sen. Ron Wyden, and Portland
Mayor Ted Wheeler were also in attendance. Thou-
sands flooded Pittsburgh streets for memorials that
same evening.
Authorities said the man charged in the shooting,
identified as Robert Bowers, 46, regularly post-
ed memes and conspiracy theories attacking im-
migrants and their supporters on a social network
called Gab which is often associated with conspira-
cy theorists and extremists — including an ominous
warning posted just hours before the attack.
Bowers was arraigned Monday on 29 federal
counts, including hate crimes and weapons offensives.
The synagogue attack is considered the deadliest
attack on the Jewish community in U.S. history, and
a massacre that highlights the rise of hate crimes
across the country.
Forums on PSU Campus Security Begin
Portland State University will hold public forums
over the next three days regarding campus safety
policies and the future of armed police officers pa-
trolling its downtown campus and adjacent neigh-
borhood.
The meetings will be conducted by an indepen-
dent security consulting firm and follow PSU’s first
officer-involved shooting of last June when Jason
Washington, a black father, grandfather and Navy
Veteran was killed by campus security while trying
to break up a fight outside the Cheeerful Tortoise,
a bar near campus. It happened after a gun he was
legally able to carry dropped to the ground and he
reached to pick it up.
A grand jury ruled that the two officers involved,
James Dewey and Shawn McKenzie, were justified
in the shooting. Seventeen shots were fired, accord-
ing to a medical examiner’s report, nine of which
struck Washington.
The school’s board of trustees announced at a
meeting earlier this month that it would begin its
own public investigations into the circumstances
of the shooting which will include public forums,
an examination of PSU’s policing policies, and
could result in a decision to disarm campus police
entirely.