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August 14, 2019
CAREERS Special Edition
The
Week
in
Review
Speed Racing Crackdown
Portland Police conducted 26 traf-
fic stops, towed four vehicles and
arrested five suspects related to ille-
gal street racing over the weekend.
The actions were part of a crack-
down the police are undertaking
to curb displays of speed racing,
which has included using the help
of the bureau’s Air Support Unit.
Claim filed Against ICE
Counter-protesters prepare to clash with Patriot Prayer protesters during an Aug. 4, 2018 rally in
Portland, Since President Donald Trump’s election, the city has become a political arena for far-right
and far-left groups to face off. (AP photo)
Police Brace for Clash of Protests
History with hate groups
adds to dynamic
(AP) -- Portland police are mobilizing to pre-
vent clashes between out-of-state far-right groups
planning a rally for downtown Saturday and the
homegrown anti-fascists who oppose them.
The rally — and the violence it may bring — are
a relatively new reality for police, as an informal
coalition of white nationalists, white supremacists
and extreme-right militias hones its focus on Port-
land as a stand-in for everything it feels is wrong
with the U.S. At the top of that list are the masked
and black-clad anti-fascists who turn out to violent-
ly oppose right-wing demonstrators as soon as they
set foot in town.
“It’s Portlandia, and in the public mind it rep-
C ontinued on P age 4
About 300 protesters joined in-
terfaith leaders at the Washington
County Courthouse in Hillsboro
Monday to protest the Immigra-
tion and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) agency for detaining and
arresting immigrants when they
come to court. The rally came on
the same day the ACLU of Oregon
and a partnering law firm filed a
federal tort claim on behalf of a
legal resident and county worker
who was detained by ICE.
Body Found in Zoo
The body of a man who was re-
ported missing since Saturday
was found Monday in a construc-
tion site at the Oregon Zoo, police
said. Carl Stanley Ross Sr., 62,
was found in the rhino habitat,
which had no animals inside and
the cause of death has not been
determined.
Accused Financier’s Suicide
Jeffrey Epstein,
the
66-year-old
financier and sex
offender
who
was facing new
charges of traf-
ficking girls for
sex, died of an apparent suicide
Saturday in his federal jail cell in
Lower Manhattan. The New York
Times reported the jail chose to
house Epstein by himself and did
not make routine check-ins after
he attempted to commit suicide
three weeks earlier.
Protests Shutters Airport
One of the
world’s bus-
iest airports
canceled all
flights after
thousands
of pro-democracy demonstrators
crowded into Hong Kong’s main
terminal Monday, while the cen-
tral government in Beijing issued
an ominous characterization of the
protest movement as something
approaching “terrorism.”
Wildlife Protections Weakened
The Trump administration Mon-
day announced major changes
for the way the Endangered Spe-
cies Act is applied, weakening the
law by making it harder to pro-
tect wildlife from multiple threats
posed by climate change.
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