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She added that it appears
the county will not pay any
of the cost of Fair’s medical
treatment for his injuries, all
incurred at the hands of
deputies while he was in
custody, and that she is
being held responsible for
them.
Multnomah County Chief
Deputy District Attorney
Norm Frink Wednesday
kyeron Fair
stressed that Fair had not
been, “beaten by jailers,”
and that the Multnomah County investiga-
tion into the incident showed that staff did
not act inappropriately.
“A criminal investigation was done
regarding whether this man was, quote,
beaten by jailers, and it was found that there
was no wrongdoing in this case.
“Before you go around saying he was
‘beaten by jailers,’ you may want to look at
that,”
Frink said.
He added that it is too early in the case to
determine how Fair’s mental state will play
out in criminal proceedings.
“I cannot comment on his case specifical-
ly but as a general proposition, psychologi-
cal issues can play out in a number of ways.
“Not commenting on a specific case,
those issues may lead us to determine that
prosecution is not appropriate, it might be
appropriate for mental health
court,” he said.
Frink offered to allow The
Skanner News to examine the
county’s investigation report
for the first time; he declined to
comment on the Oregon State
Police investigation completed
earlier this year.
Oddly, county officials have
repeatedly told other media that
no state report exists, including
in 2010
at least one weekly newspaper
that filed a Freedom of
Information Act request earlier this year.
Oregon State Rep. Lew Frederick and
Sen. Chip Shields, as well as staff members
for Rep. Mike Dembrow and U.S. Rep Earl
Blumenauer, spent weeks last year trying to
determine how Fair was injured, when he
was injured, and by whom, as Multnomah
County officials stonewalled their inquiries.
Records contained within the more than
1,000-page state police investigation show
that Fair was Tazed by Multnomah County
Sheriffs Deps. Mindy De Armond and
Gordon Glasser simultaneously (Glasser
reported he used two cycles), as they forced
him out of his isolation cell to transport him
from the Multnomah County Detention
Center to OHSU on Sept. 18.
Documents show Fair was carried out of the
juvenile jail by half a dozen staff members,
his wrists and ankles shackled, then dumped
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At the Lloyd Farmer’s Market August 29, OsPIrg held a “Price is wrong”
event with $20 of high fat, high calorie processed food, next to $20 of
healthy, low calorie fruits and vegetables. The pile of unhealthy food
contained 15,600 calories, whileere the unhealthy food contained 1960
calories.
out onto the pavement outside the facility.
After some struggle by the teenager, fol-
lowed 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.
OHSU officials soon released him, charg-
ing that he was “faking” his mental illness
and that his physical symptoms were not
significant.
2007. That is in contrast to the general U.S.
public, whose satisfaction has dropped from
32 percent to 23 percent.
Andrew Kohut, Pew president, said in an
interview that Muslim Americans’ overall
level of satisfaction was striking.
“I was concerned about a bigger sense of
alienation, but there was not,” Kohut said,
contrasting the U.S. to many places in
Europe where Muslims have become more
separatist. “You don’t see any indication of
brewing negativity. When you look at their
attitudes, these are still middle-class, main-
stream people who want to be loyal to
America.”
The latest numbers come amid increased
U.S. attention on the risks of homegrown
terrorism after the London transit bombings
in 2005. The problem has been especially
pressing for President Barack Obama, with
federal investigators citing a greater risk of
attacks by a “lone wolf” or small home-
grown cells.
Such terror warnings have stirred raw
emotions as the U.S. struggles to talk about
religion in the context of terrorism.
Tensions erupted last summer over plans
to build a mosque near the Ground Zero site
in New York City after critics assailed it as
an insult to the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., held House hear-
ings earlier this year to examine whether
American Muslims are becoming “radical-
ized” to attack the U.S., declaring that U.S.
Muslims are doing too little to fight terror.
The Associated Press reported last week
that with CIA guidance, the New York
Police Department dispatched undercover
officers into minority neighborhoods, scru-
tinized imams and gathered intelligence on
cab drivers and food cart vendors, jobs
often done by Muslims.
It is now common in U.S. mosques for
Muslims to preface public remarks by say-
ing that they know the government is eaves-
dropping but Muslims have nothing to hide.
Still, one factor behind the somewhat
upbeat sentiment of Muslim Americans is
the 2008 election of Obama, who pledged to
improve relations with the Muslim world.
Muslim Americans who vote largely identi-
fy themselves as Democrats, and fully 76
percent of those surveyed say they approve
of Obama’s job performance, compared
with 15 percent in 2007 who approved of
Bush’s performance.
Regarding possible terror risks, about 21
percent of Muslim Americans say there is “a
great deal” or “a fair amount” of support for
extremism in their communities, according
to the Pew survey. About 81 percent of
Muslim Americans say suicide bombings
and other forms of violence against civilians
are never justified in order to defend Islam,
and growing numbers also express an unfa-
vorable view of al-Qaida - 81 percent com-
pared with 68 percent in 2007.
a Fugitive Slave, Recently Escaped from
North Carolina’. The book was rediscov-
ered and evaluated by Harvard University
Professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates. After
researching the author and the book, Gates
concluded the story was a genuine work of
African American fiction written around
1855.
Romanski said she will focus on Black
writing about politics, economics and cul-
ture as well as international writing. Among
the American writers she plans to highlight
are: Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper,
Charles
Chestnutt,
W.E.B.DuBois,
Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Jacobs. But
she’ll also study Alexander Pushkin, a hero
of Russian literature, who had an African
great-grandfather, and Alexander Dumas,
who experienced plenty of racism in
France, despite being one of the most popu-
lar novelists of his time.
Joyce Harris, director of the Equity
Center at Education Northwest, said African
American literature has something to offer
everyone. “Broadening our collective
knowledge of the contributions of diverse
people is so important to developing a
healthy and inclusive view of what has
shaped the academy today,” she says. “If we
don’t have courses that focus on the contri-
butions made by writers of African descent,
we lose a lot in terms of what has shaped lit-
erature universally.”
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from 40 percent in 2007, the first time Pew
polled Muslim Americans.
Asked to identify in what ways they felt
bias, about 28 percent said they had been
treated or viewed with suspicion by people,
while 22 percent said they were called
offensive names. About 21 percent said they
were singled out by airport security because
they were Muslim, while another 13 percent
said they were targeted by other law
enforcement officials. Roughly 6 percent
said they had been physically threatened or
U.S. anti-terrorism efforts as insincere than
sincere - 55 percent to 26 percent.
The vast majority of Muslim Americans -
79 percent - rate their communities as either
“excellent” or “good” places to live, even
among many who reported an act of vandal-
ism against a mosque or a controversy over
the building of an Islamic center in their
neighborhoods.
They also are now more likely to say they
are satisfied with the current direction of the
country - 56 percent, up from 38 percent in
‘When you look at their attitudes, these are still
middle-class, mainstream people who want to
be loyal to America.’
attacked.
On the other hand, the share of Muslim
Americans who view U.S. anti-terror poli-
cies as “sincere” efforts to reduce interna-
tional terrorism now surpasses those who
view them as insincere - 43 percent to 41
percent. Four years ago, during the presi-
dency of George W. Bush, far more viewed
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scheduled for 11am to 12:50 pm on the
Cascade campus.
‘Students are always requesting African
American or African teachers,” Romanski
said. “This year we have both classes being
taught from an African American perspec-
tive.”
Romanski’s course will look at the earliest
Black writing in America, including what
may be the earliest novel written by an
African American writer:
‘The
Bondwoman’s Narrative, by Hannah Crafts,
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