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June 08, 2022
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Week Review
Blazers Team Buyout Offered
City to Maintain 82nd Ave.
Nike founder Phil Knight has
offered to purchase the Portland
Trail Blazers, but the team re-
sponded by saying the franchise
is not for sale. Knight and the
Los Angeles Dodgers part-own-
er Alan Smolinisky made a $2
billion-plus bid to purchase the
Blazers from the Paul Allen
Trust, which oversees the fran- Vancouver Pride!
chise following Allen's 2018 For the first time Pride flags are
death, ESPN reported last week. flying at Vancouver City Hall
and other city-owned facilities.
Last week the flags were raised
for June Pride Month as a sym-
bol of the city’s commitment
to celebrating and supporting
all of our community members
and to support diversity, equity
and inclusion across the city,
officials said.
Portland took ownership of
82nd Avenue from the state
last week, signaling the start of
some near-term safety invest-
ments. The Portland Bureu of
Transportation will now be
responsible for everything from
filling potholes and plowing
snow, to permits and safety im-
provements on a 7-mile stretch
from Northeast Killingsworth
to the Clackamas County line.
Guilty in Chef’s Death
A romance novelist who once
wrote an essay titled “How to
Murder Your Husband” was
convicted of fatally shooting
her husband four years ago. A
jury in Portland found Nancy
Crampton Brophy, 71, guilty
in chef Daniel Brophy’s death.
Cybersecurity Breach
Brophy was killed as he prepped
The city of Portland has dis- for work at the Oregon Culinary
covered a cybersecurity breach Institute, downtown.
that led to a fraudulent financial
transaction of approximately
Shooter Handed Life Term
$1.4 million in late April, offi-
A Portland man who killed
cials said. Preliminary evidence
another man and wounded two
others in a shooting as people left indicates that an unauthorized,
outside entity gained access
a concert at the Moda Center has
to a city email account to con-
been sentenced to life in prison.
duct the theft. Officials said
Robert Jay James, 39, received
the sentence Friday in Multnomah they were increasing security to
County Circuit Court.
avoid future cases.
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Hate Case Leads
to Evidence
A cache of firearms and racist Nazi propaganda are confiscated
from a man arrested for spewing hate near the Immigrant &
Refugee Community Organization in east Portland.
A Portland area man has been
arrested for a bias crime and
criminal mischief, charges in
connection with accusations he
was spewing hate by placing
a white-supremacist, neo-Nazi
sticker near an immigrant com-
munity center in east Portland.
Multnomah County District
Attorney Mike Schmidt said
Jarl Rockhill, 35, was arraigned
May 27 on charges of second-de-
gree bias crime and third-degree
criminal mischief for placing the
racist sticker on a fence at the or-
ganization serving immigrants,
refugees, and mainstream com-
munity members last April 23.
The Portland Police Bureau
said it used video surveillance
footage to identify Rockhill.
Police searched Rockhill’s
home and car with warrants and
found over a dozen firearms and
neo-Nazi materials, including a
large red flag featuring a swasti-
ka, officials said.
Investigators said Rockhill’s
online activity was associated with
multiple white supremacists groups
and a tattoo on Rockhill’s forearm
is a white supremacist symbol.