SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
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Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 51
News .............................. 3,8-12
Opinion ...................................2
Calendars ........................... 4-5
Minority Business
A & E .....................................6-7
Enterprise 2016
Bids/Classiieds ....................11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
SPECIAL EDITION
PHOTO BY CHRISTEN MCCURDY
STANDING ROCK
Community members have rallied to support the
family of three African American boys who were
pepper sprayed last week at the intersection of
Northeast 9th and Killingsworth.
Community
Rallies
Around
Family
M
ore than 340 people have donat-
ed more than $11,000 to help a
Northeast Portland family re-
place their car and address the
medical expenses and trauma associat-
ed with a racist assault on three Black
children last week. This Sunday, a mul-
tiracial group of Portland bicyclists is
going for a ride against hate.
In an interview with The Skanner
News earlier this week, family mem-
See ATTACK on page 3
Three year old Enick and her father joined hundreds of people in a march from City Hall to Westlake Park in Seattle Sept. 17 to show solidarity with
the Standing Rock Sioux as they ight to stop the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Police Accountability Advocates Look Ahead
CRC, COAB, City all mull changes to police oversight processes
By Arashi Young
Of The Skanner News
AP PHOTO/MARK LENNIHAN
P
New Yorkers pass a shattered storefront window
in Manhattan, Sept. 20 in New York. The window
was hit by shrapnel from the terrorist bomb that
exploded across the street Saturday evening.
World News
Briefs
NY Bombing Suspect,
Jolie Files for Divorce
and more
page 12
olice accountability
has been the topic of
numerous conversa-
tions in recent weeks,
as many factors are poised
to change the landscape in
Portland.
Proposals to change the
Citizen Review Commit-
tee’s and Community Over-
sight Advisory Board’s ,
looming Department of
Justice deadlines and the
change from Mayor Char-
lie Hales to Mayor-elect
Ted Wheeler — could all
potentially shit police ac-
page 7
Alliance.
Bethel expressed “seri-
ous concerns” about the
proposal to remove public
meetings in the new ac-
countability system — a
concern that was echoed
by nearly every person of-
fering testimony that eve-
ning.
In addition to the AMA,
members from Portland
Copwatch, the National
Lawyers Guild, the ACLU
of Oregon and the Oregon
League of Women Voters
voiced opposition to the
proposal in its current
form.
Community
members
also objected to a plan for
the CRC to form smaller
work groups. Dan Han-
delman of Portland Cop-
watch said there will be
diversity issues under the
new proposal. The cur-
rent CRC coniguration
has been constructed to
balance gender and racial
representation -- which he
believes would be lost in a
smaller group.
“Breaking the 11-member
panel into three-person
panels will create a num-
ber of problems,” Handel-
man said. He suggested
expanding the number of
See POLICE on page 3
Fish to Present Report on CBA Today
Report looks at successes of, recommendations
for Community Beneits Agreement
The Skanner News Staf
C
Kam Reviews
‘Snowden’
countability processes.
At city hall, Mayor Hales
and Commissioners Aman-
da Fritz and Steve Novick
tabled discussion on a pro-
posal to merge the Citizen
Review Committee into the
Police Review Board.
The decision came ater
a combative late-evening
council meeting where
stakeholders asked the
council to hold of making
the decision.
“Let’s not rush, but seek
to install a truly more sim-
ple accountability and re-
view process,” said the Rev.
T Allen Bethel, president
of the Albina Ministerial
ity Commissioner Nick Fish is
expected to present a report to
the city council Thursday ater-
noon on the efectiveness of the
community beneits agreement. The
Kelly Butte Reservoir and Interstate
Maintenance Facility Renovation
Projects were pilot projects under
the CBA.
A community beneits agreement
is a legally-binding contract between
a broad community coalition and
a developer in which community
members pledge support for a de-
velopment in return for communi-
ty beneits such as targeted hire of
See CBA on page 3
PHOTO BY ANGELS GATE (CC BY-NC 2.0)
VIA FLICKR
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
PPB still investigating
racially motivated bear
spraying incident
Today city commissioner Nick Fish will present
a report on the progress of the Community
Beneits Agreement, which set targets of
employing more minority-owned businesses
for city construction projects.