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Eugene Pharr Jr.
Andre Gladen
he fired at Gladen three times, kill-
ing him.
The Police Bureau previously
had not acknowledged the knife
involved was police-issue, though
it directed its officers to no longer
carry knives on their outer vests
during the investigation.
Lawsuit in Police Shooting
The family of a man killed in a
confrontation with Portland Police
two years ago has filed a lawsuit
against the city and the officers
and supervisors involved.
The family claims Terrell
Johnson, 24, was experiencing a
mental health crisis, for which he
unsuccessfully sought help from
medical providers, when an en-
counter with Portland Police at the
Flavel MAX station in southeast
Portland ended in his death on
May 10, 2017.
Terrell Johnson
PSU President Resigns
Portland State University Presi-
dent Rahmat Shoureshi resigned
Friday sev-
eral weeks
after allega-
tions of eth-
ical short-
comings,
alleged
misuse of a
PSU fund
for private
gain, bully-
ing and im-
properly in-
fluencing a decision to tear down
and re-build a historic mansion
on campus. The PSU Board of
Trustees offered him a generous
severance package that included
seven months of paid leave.
Carson on Undocumented
Paul Neufeldt
P ubliC r elAtions : Mark
More light has been shed on
two fatal shootings in Portland
from January, one by a police of-
ficer and the other a private secu-
rity officer, as a grand jury ruled
last week ruled that the shootings
were in self defense and the jury
transcripts became public.
Eugene Pharr Jr. was killed out-
side a southeast Portland strip club
on Jan. 15; and Andre Gladen, 36,
a legally blind and mentally ill
man, was shot dead by a Portland
Police officer after intruding into
someone’s home. For the first
time, the grand jury transcripts
show he was holding the officer’s
knife at the time.
After wrestling with Gladen on
the floor, the officer testified he
then fired a stun gun at him. Glad-
en went down, but when he got up
again holding the officer’s knife
from his vest. The officer testified
Housing Secretary Ben Carson’s
plan to make it harder for un-
documented immigrants to live
in federally subsidized housing
advanced Friday. The proposal,
which has a 60-day comment pe-
riod before taking effect, would
displace some 76,000 legal res-
idents or citizens—including
The
Week
in
Review
55,000 children who are in the
country legally.
Washington Time Change
Portland Police responded to a
911 call from a woman who said
Terrell chased her teenage neigh-
bor off of the transit platform. A
West Linn Transit Division police
officer then confronted Johnson,
who told the officer he had a knife.
The lawsuit alleges that Port-
land Police Officer Samson Ajir
acted against Police Bureau di-
rectives when he gave chase on
foot. Ajir was later cleared of all
criminal charges by a Multnomah
County Grand Jury.
patients about the worth of the
vaccine then administer it onsite.
Snubbed by Red Sox Players
President Trump’s White House
welcoming of the 2018 World
Series champion Boston Red
Sox was clouded by the absence
of most of the team’s Latino
and African American players,
who did not attend the Thursday
event over disagreements with
Trump’s politics. Team Manag-
er Alex Cora, a native of Puer-
to Rico, also sat out in protest
against the president’s treatment
of the island after two devastat-
ing hurricanes.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee
signed a measure last week that
would make daylight saving time
permanent in the state if national
law is altered to allow it. The mea-
sure would only take effect is leg-
islation allowing states to observe
daylight saving time year-round is Drug Price Hiking Scheme
Oregon Attorney General Ellen
passed by Congress.
Rosenblum joined 43 states in
Dentist Vaccines Approved
a lawsuit Friday against Teva
Oregon is the first state to allow Pharmaceuticals and 19 of the
dentists to administer any vac- largest manufacturers of generic
cine available at a primary care drugs alleging they worked to re-
doctor’s office, thanks to a bill strain trade, reduce competition,
signed into law last week. Vac- and inflate and manipulate prices
cines relevant to oral health such in a broad conspiracy for more
as HPV, which is a common link than 100 different generic drugs,
among a large percentage of oral which include ones that treat ba-
cancers, may be the most practi- sic infections, diabetes, cancer,
cal application of the bill, which HIV, ADHD, and more.
would allow a dentist to educate