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Police Accountability
police contract does not expire
until June 30, 2020, the city and
linkage that supports the notion union are expected to begin their
that police union contract protec- negotiations soon.
tions insulate police abuse.
“Right now, the next 60 to 90
Even though Portland’s current days, is basically when the com-
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munity has…should have the op-
portunity and it will be up to the
city, especially the mayor but not
only the mayor, to determine how
much community involvement is
going to be allowed. But now is
the time when basically the priori-
ties are being set,” Ofsink said.
The Ministerial Alliance’s jus-
tice and police reform panel pre-
viously successfully lobbied for
the random drug testing of officers
and for regular employee evalu-
ations of officers. The organiza-
tion is currently putting together
public forums for the community
to give remarks and goals for the
new contract and Haynes adds he
July 17, 2019
looks forward to working with the
police department on the issues.
“We continue to believe that the
Chief of Police is moving in the
right direction and we want to be
supportive of her as much as we
can, but at the same time be able to
critique her and the Portland Po-
lice Bureau,” Haynes said.
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School children protest the treatment of African American teachers in Norfolk, Va., in June 1939.
The photo is part of a new exhibit of African American experiences from the National WWII Museum
in New Orleans, now showing at the Oregon Historical Society, downtown through Jan. 12. Photo
courtesy Library of Congress.
Fighting for the Right to Fight
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focus of African American partic-
ipation during the war. The piece
is narrated by TV personality
Robin Roberts, whose own father
flew with the Tuskegee Airmen
during the war.
The presentation also exam-
ines how new hopes of equality
collided with a discouraging real-
ity of the segregated noncombat
roles given to black recruits, and
the continuing fight for “Double
Victory” that laid the ground-
work for the modern Civil Rights
Movement.
Visitors discover the wartime
stories of individual services
members who took part in this
extraordinary challenge, from
unheralded heroes to famous
names, including Alex Haley, au-
thor of Roots (U.S. Coast Guard);
Benjamin Davis Jr. (US Army
Air Forces); Medgar Evers (U.S.
Army); and more.