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April 10, 2019
The
Week in Review
Police Shooting Protest
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Dozens of people marched through the streets to the
Northeast Precinct Saturday demanding justice for An-
dre Gladen, a blind, mentally ill black man fatally shot
by police last January . Gladen’s family believes the
knife he’s accused of holding was planted by the officer
who shot him. A Grand Jury ruled the shooting was in
self-defense.
Motel 6 to Settle Lawsuit
An undated photo from KATU via AP shows the Hart Family, a white couple and their six adopted black children.
Couple Killed Entire Family
A final chapter in the death of an
entire family from southwest Wash-
ington.
A jury in California last week de-
termined that Jennifer and Sara Hart
committed murder when they gave
their six adopted black children as
many as 19 doses each of Benadryl
before driving their SUV over a steep
cliff and into the Pacific Ocean last
year.
All eight members of the family
died. Previously they had been por-
trayed on social media as a happy,
multi-racial family. One of the boys
gained national attention when he was
photographed in tears while hugging
a white police officer during a 2014
protest in Portland.
The couple’s story began to unravel
in March of last year, when they fled
their Woodland, Wash. home after a
visit from social workers investigating
charges they were neglecting the chil-
dren. A neighbor had filed a complaint
with the state saying the children were
being deprived of food as punishment.
Rep. Janelle Bynum
Wash. who had the police called on
him by a hotel security guard in De-
cember for simply making a phone
call to his mother in the lobby of the
Double Tree at Lloyd Center.
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Booker Calls for Reparations
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., on
Monday introduced a bill that
would study the possibility of rep-
arations for descendants of slaves,
embracing a push that recently has
caught the interest of fellow 2020
Democratic presidential candi-
dates.
Goldschmidt Portrait Stolen
Police arrested a man on multiple misdemeanor charges
Saturday for stealing and then burning a small portrait of
former Mayor Neil Goldschmidt that was part of a col-
lection of mayoral photos from the entryway of Mayor
Wheeler’s office at City Hall. Jeffrey T. Black, 50, said
he took the portrait to shed light on the plight of survi-
vors of sexual assault.
If cops called for no reason,
bill would allow lawsuit
Three African American state law-
makers have introduced a bill that
could allow a person of color to sue
someone who called the cops on them
for no reason.
It’s an experience familiar to one of
the bill’s sponsors, Rep. Janelle By-
num, who had police called on her for
“campaigning while black,” in what
became a national story.
Bynum was canvassing for votes in
her Portland suburb district last sum-
mer when a Clackamas County depu-
ty responded to the scene and realized
nothing was wrong.
It’s one of several instances where
people of color have had police sum-
moned by their presence for little else
than apparently minding their own
business, like the man from Kent,
The national chain Motel 6 agreed Thursday to pay $12
million to settle a lawsuit filed by the state of Washing-
ton, claiming names of hotel guests were improperly
provided to immigration officials for two years. Some
people staying at seven Motel 6 locations in the state
were detained or deported.
Burgerville Workers Unionize
The bill was partly inspired by an
opinion piece in the Oregonian writ-
ten by Oregon civil rights attorney
Erious Johnson and his wife, Nkenge
Harmon Johnson, president of Urban
League of Portland, in which they
called for the creation of a new crime
called “malicious summoning.”
“When they have police called on
them for no reason, people are hurt,”
Johnson recently testified to represen-
tatives on the House Judiciary Com-
mittee. “It’s an element of segrega-
tion.”
Though House Bill 3216 doesn’t
include the possibility of criminal
charges, it would create a path for
people to file a small claims court suit
of up to $250 and could soon be voted
on by the House Judiciary Committee.
Overcoming anti-union propaganda, workers at Burger-
ville restaurants at the Oregon Convention Center and
Montavilla said they refused to be intimidated by com-
pany managers and voted last week in favor of union
representation at both locations. It makes the Burgerville
Worker’s Union undefeated in five elections.
Law Would End Time Changes
The Oregon Senate has passed a bill that would abolish
annual time changes and make daylight saving time per-
manent for the state. The bill now heads to the state House
for consideration with the support of Gov. Kate Brown.
Paper Tickets Going Away
Pending TriMet board approval in May, the transit
agency announced last week that it will officially stop
accepting most paper tickets when the year ends Dec.
31. Passengers are being directed to the tap-to-ride Hop
Fastpass system, an electronic fare card that allows rid-
ers to pay for rides in advance. Cash fares will still be
accepted on buses.
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