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the 2700 block of Southeast 125th
Avenue that erupted in gunfire.
One bullet struck 23-year-old Car-
los Antonio Barerra in the stom-
ach; he’s expected to survive.
That same day, Tyrone Allen,
23, was arrested by police. He’s
accused of another shooting near
Northeast 102nd Avenue and
Prescott Street the preceding day.
The gunfire yielded no victims but
did damage a car in the area.
Third was the fatal – but acci-
A memorial fund for Sleeper’s
funeral has been launched by his
family and can be found here.
(https://www.giveforward.com/fu
ndraiser/rs08/the-ej-kincaid-
funeral-memorial-fund)
Last year, Portland-native James
Crittenden Sr. a former gang-
member put out a similar call for
peace in a video that showed him
embracing a former rival.
That video released in August,
2014, received thousands of
‘The violence has to stop. It will take a
combination of hard work, faith and
bravery to stop this destructive cycle’
dental – shooting of Beketel Elbe-
lau Sleeper, affectionally called
‘EJ’ by associates. Sleeper’s
friend, 21-year-old Isaiah Horatio
Hayes, fired off a round while the
two sat in a car with other friends.
shares in a matter of days.
“It takes a real man or a real
woman to do this,” Crittenden
says. “If you can approach some-
one and let them know, ‘I’m sorry
about what I did.’ Or if they did
PHOTO BY DONOVAN M. SMITH
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Four Portland mothers, all whose sons had died in gun violence,
gathered at Bethel A.M.E. church in Northeast Portland, Friday,
March 6, to call for an end to violence in the city.
something, to say: ‘I want to let
go of what you did. Let’s not let
this happen again. Let’s just live
life and be happy.’”
Mayor Charlie Hales issued a
statement on Holiman’s death also
calling for an end to violence in
the city.
“The violence has to stop. It will
take a combination of hard work,
faith and bravery to stop this
destructive cycle. Let us look to
the Holiman Family as inspira-
tions for this work.”
Holiman leaves behind two tod-
dlers, a son and daughter.
The Office of Youth Violence
Prevention offers resources on
reducing and eradicating violence
in the community. Visit their web-
site at: http://www.portlandon-
line.com/safeyouth/
friendly place but alas. Food is so
so. Their buffet used to be good
but now they don’t have it.
Hampton, who founded a small
business in construction that has
worked with the King Neighbor-
hood Association and other
groups to help make Alberta
Street friendly to small business-
es.”
Hampton is representing herself
in court.
The Skanner News’ attempts to
obtain comment from the restau-
rant owner have been unsuccess-
ful, but he has commented to The
Oregonian and KOIN news.
The Oregonian reports that the
owner, Enzo Lanzadoro, is accus-
ing Hampton of “stealing” two
glasses of wine.
Enzo’s has a generally good rat-
ing on Yelp, but the customer crit-
icisms over time appear to be
consistent – in particular a pattern
of customers served wine without
asking for it and then being
charged for the beverage. One
customer reported that a server
poured wine into her husband’s
beer glass and then charged them
for it.
Alberta
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well as one other person of color
who claims he and his partner
were refused service.
Hampton told The Skanner
News that she made reservations
at the restaurant after meeting the
owner during a neighborhood
walk; she says he was charming
and talked at length about his
homemade pasta and bread.
But after her husband, Percy,
decided he did not want to go out,
she says it felt wrong to cancel the
reservation at the last minute –
besides, she was eager to try the
food.
“I was finally seated after peo-
ple who came after me were seat-
ed,” Hampton says. “I was not
getting service; I finally said I was
ready to order and the waitress
told me she was not taking my
order and that I had to leave and
give up my table.”
In the small restaurant, Hamp-
ton says all the other customers
watched her as she was rousted
from her table and forced to leave,
even being denied a to-go order.
“I was so hurt, I’ve never expe-
rienced this before, here in Port-
land,” she said. “I’ve never heard
of a place not having to-go.
“I was so devastated I cried all
night,” she says. “I don’t want this
to happen to anyone else.
“Racism is alive and well,”
I finally said I was ready to order and
the waitress told me she was not
taking my order and that I had to
leave and give up my table
Hampton says.
Of several bad customer
reviews from the Feb. 14, 2015,
Valentine’s Day dinner hour, one
stands out.
Anand P posted on Feb. 14:
[expletive deleted] I come here,
or at least used to now. But on
valentines day some Asian wait-
ress here was the epitome of
racism. Made us sit outside in the
cold and then never showed up.
Americans behind us sat inside
and were served wine ASAP. The
chef here is a very nice person but
he should not hire such morons.
Anyway, never again. We came
here because we wanted to goto a
now been taken over by her son,
says she’s seen her share of dis-
crimination against African Amer-
icans on Alberta Street over the
years – but the snub by Enzo’s
struck her to the heart.
She never saw Enzo himself that
night, and when she went back to
the restaurant the next morning to
talk with him about it she was
greeted by the same manager from
the night before, who brushed off
her complaint and, she says,
declined to put her in touch with
Enzo.
“I have a footprint in the neigh-
borhood,” she says. “I am a small
business owner myself, and I have
“Bloody Sunday” when police
beat scores of people at a civil
rights march in Selma, Alabama.
While not typical, the issues
raised in the Ferguson report also
unarmed black 19-year-old by a
white police officer, chanting
“Black Lives Matter.” Authorities
said the police officer fired his
weapon after he was assaulted.
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report last week, it made numer-
ous allegations against the city’s
police department that included
racial disparities in arrests, big-
otry and profit-driven law
enforcement — essentially using
the black community as a piggy
bank to support the city’s budget
through fines.
Though the report centered on
Ferguson, its findings have res-
onated beyond the St. Louis sub-
urbs as residents in some
communities across the country
say they feel they face the same
struggles with their police depart-
ments and city leadership.
President
Barack
Obama
addressed the issue Friday on the
eve of the 50th anniversary of
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In Pasco, where Felix Vargas lives, the
racial makeup of the city has
changed over the years and now it’s
more than half Hispanic, but only one
in five of its police are
were not isolated, he said.
On Saturday, protesters took to
the streets in Madison, Wisconsin,
after the fatal shooting of an
The officer was placed on admin-
istrative leave pending results of
an investigation by an outside
state agency.
“These communities are vulner-
able because they don’t believe
the law is there to protect them,”
said Kevin Jones, a black, 36-
year-old Iraq war veteran who
lives in Saginaw, Michigan, a
once predominantly white city
that’s now about half black. He
recalled being pulled over and
arrested in 2011 for having his
music too loud in the wrong part
of town. The noise complaint was
dropped when an officer failed to
show for his hearing, but Jones
said he still had to pay to get his
car back.
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