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New Portland street sign toppers commemorate the memory of Mulugeta Seraw, an
Ethiopian immigrant and graduate student who was killed 30 years ago by racist skinheads.
The city has installed 16 of the signs in southeast Portland’s Kerns neighborhood, the
district where Mulugeta had lived and was killed.
for a successful 1990 Southern Poverty Law
Center civil lawsuit filed in Oregon against
California white supremacist Tom Metzger.
A Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the
1970s, Metzger founded of the White Aryan
Resistance in the 1980s. He was found liable of
Seraw’s death based on the killers’ associations
with Metzger’s group.
Today, racist groups are actively recruiting in
the Pacific Northwest and have contributed to
an escalation of violence at political rallies.
Documents revealed just this week show
that the FBI has provided an assessment to the
Clark County Sheriff’s Office that the Proud
Boys, a band whose members have appeared
at right-wing rallies in Portland and Vancou-
ver and have been involved in street fights
with counter protestors, have been designated
an extremist group with ties to white nation-
alism.
The Southern Poverty Law Center had pre-
viously listed the Proud Boys as a hate group.