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J UNE 15, 2011
P ORTLAND & S EATTLE
V OLUME XXXIII, N O .
25
CENTS
I NSIDE
Losing a Generation
page 4
Juneteenth
page 7
Paul Mooney
C HALLENGING P EOPLE TO S HAPE A B ETTER F UTURE N OW
Kyeron’s
Jailhouse
Abuse
page 6
CREATING A BRAND
Officials kept teen’s
mom in dark despite
repeated inquiries
A state investigation into how local
teenager Kyeron Fair was hospitalized
while in the custody of Multnomah County
law enforcement has been obtained by The
Skanner News. This is part 2 of a 2-part
series on the case.
By Lisa Loving
Of The Skanner News
PHOTO BY HELEN SILVIS
H
otspots in the use of force against
Kyeron Fair date to his transport
from MCDC to OHSU on Sept. 18.
Records show that Fair was Tased by
Multnomah County Sheriffs Deps. Mindy
De Armond and Gordon Glasser simultane-
ously (Glasser reported he used two cycles),
as they forced him out of his isolation cell to
transport him to the hospital.
Documents show Fair was carried out of
the juvenile jail by half a dozen staff mem-
bers, his wrists and ankles shackled, then
dumped out onto the pavement outside the
facility. After some struggle by the teenager,
followed by curses and threats by MCDC
Deputy Tim Barker, Fair was picked up off
the pavement and alternately dragged,
dropped, punched in the legs and pushed
into the back of a transport van.
(The state report shows the incident was
reviewed in Hazardous Incident Reports;
four certificates confirming a ‘justified’ rul-
ing are contained in the state document col-
lection, including for Dets. Barker and
DeArmond. No such certificate is included
for Glasser.)
He was taken to OHSU, where blood tests
showed traces of marijuana in his blood-
stream. He remained combative to staff,
who decided that his mental crisis was
“behavioral” and soon sent him back to the
MCDC. There he was given Geodone,
Ativan, and Rispertal “to help with symp-
toms,” the report says.
There the psychiatric nurse practitioner
continued to monitor the liver enzymes in
his bloodstream – a general indicator of
Iyesha Rosser, Alexis Tanner and Monterae Hill wear the ‘Run Like a Kenyan’ tee-shirts they designed with other
members of Team Hamasa, for the NIKE Product Creation Experience. Mentors from Self enhancement Inc. and NIKE
worked with high school students for 6 months on project. Team Hamasa took first place in the competition.
Nike, SEI Hold Design Competition
Mentoring project teaches business, marketing skills and more
By Helen Silvis
Of The Skanner News
Three teams of SEI students
from high schools, worked for
6 months with mentors from
NIKE and SEI, to develop
shoes, clothing, branding and a
marketing strategy for their
product lines.
Tony Hopson, NIKE Product
Creation Experience. Nike,
Self Enhancement Inc. Sam
Ashby, students, , high schools
Three teams of students
competed in the NIKE Product
Creation Experience at Self
Enhancement Inc., June 9.
Three teams of SEI students
from high schools, worked for
6 months with mentors from
NIKE and SEI, to develop
shoes, clothing, branding and a
marketing strategy for their
product lines. Each team
focused on a different sport,
represented by an Olympics
2012 team or athlete. NIKE
was the first corporation to
sponsor SEI and many execu-
tives and mentors were present
to cheer their students on. The
product design project has
been going for four years now.
“This partnership with NIKE
has been so great for us,” said
Tony Hopson, CEO of the edu-
cation nonprofit. They make it
possible to do such creative
work with our kids.”
The results show how caring
mentors and adults can make a
huge difference in childrens
lives. SEI students have a 98
percent graduation rate, com-
pared to 51 percent for Black
students citywide. And many
are among those at most risk
because of poverty. Sam
Ashby, who co-founded SEI
with Hopson, came to the
event from , where he is now
living. His wife, Cyreena
Boston Ashby also came along
to see old friends like Maya
Allen, graduating this year
from .
Each team of six presented a
project to the judges and an
audience of their families, SEI
staff, guests, NIKE mentors
and executives. The projects
all looked forward to the
London Olympics in 2012,
and the head of NIKE’s
Olympics 2012 team was
among the judges. Every stu-
dent contributed, each show-
ing remarkable confidence,
knowledge and creativity.
See SEI on page 3
See FAIR on page 3
INDEX
News ...........2,3,8,9-11
Opinion ..................4,5
A & E ......................6,7
Bids/Classifieds ........11
Better People Ask: ‘Pay Now or Pay Later’?
Crime experts offer solutions; liberal ideas come from Kevin Mannix
By Brian Stimson
Of The Skanner News
T
his week anti-crime crusader Kevin
Mannix revealed that behind all the
get-tough-crime rhetoric he’s talked
about over the years, there’s been something
soft and squishy there all along.
Mannix, the man behind Measure 11 and
other measures that have increased sen-
tences for a variety of crimes, shocked the
audience at Better People’s June 9 “Pay
Now or Pay Later” forum by saying some
pretty progressive things about crime and
punishment.
The president of the Oregon Anti-Crime
Alliance, says he’s been advocating all
along about making it easier for reformed
felons to find employment and housing, the
benefits of treatment and rehabilitation
behind bars. Most importantly, he empha-
sized the importance of properly funding
early childhood education and other social
programs usually supported by Oregon’s
progressives.
Mannix even said he’d come up with a list
of 495 misdemeanor crimes that he thinks
should be downgraded to violations.
See FORUM on page 3