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bers said they are grate-
ful for the outpouring of
support ater the assault,
which police are investi-
gating as a racially moti-
vated incident.
According to police
reports and interviews,
on Sept. 13 three young
African American boys
were pepper sprayed
while sitting in a parked
car waiting for their
mother at Northeast 9th
and Killingsworth, by an
attacker who rode up on
a bike, sprayed pepper
spray through an open
window and yelled ra-
cial epithets at them. The
‘They keep asking me why.
I keep telling them there’s
cruel people in the world’
crime is being investigat-
ed by Portland Police Bu-
reau’s bias crimes unit.
The boys attacked are
12, 11 and seven-years
old. According to Foia
Frazer, the boys’ mother,
she and Patricia Garner,
the boys’ grandmother
were indoors exchang-
ing keys at the time of the
incident and came out-
side ater they heard the
children screaming.
“It was like a natural
disaster,” she added, and
the car was “fuming.”
The boys and their
grandmother were treat-
ed onsite by paramed-
ics. Frazier also told The
Skanner she took the old-
est boy to the emergen-
cy room for treatment,
since he was closest to
the open window. All
three children went to
followup appointments
Saturday, and she said
they continue to experi-
ence skin irritation and
itchy eyes.
Fraizer said a hospital
nurse told her the chil-
dren were most likely
Police
ritant exposure if need-
ed. Depending on the
severity of exposure,
we would deliver the ap-
propriate level of treat-
ment,” said Sue Reyn-
olds, nurse manager of
the Children’s Emergen-
cy Department at Ran-
dall Children’s Hospital
at Legacy Emanuel in an
emailed statement to The
Skanner. “This would in-
clude airway treatments
if needed (bronchodila-
tors), comfort measures
or medications for pain/
discomfort, eye irriga-
tion with saline, shower
with soap and water, and
continued monitoring
of breathing diiculty if
present.”
The youngest of the
three boys also has spe-
cial needs, and Frazier
said he has struggled in
school.
“They keep asking me
why. I keep telling them
there’s cruel people in
the world,” Garner told
The Skanner.
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CBA
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minorities, women and disad-
vantanged workers. In Septem-
ber 2012 the city council — ater
working with a coalition of labor,
minority employers, pre-appren-
“
tablished an oversight committee
to develop project-speciic agree-
ments and oversee implementa-
tion of CBAs for each pilot proj-
ect. The resolution also asked city
Ater working with a coalition of labor,
minority employers, pre-apprentice-
ship training programs and communi-
ty-based organizations, the City Council
approved a resolution to adopt a mod-
el community beneits agreement for
use as a template on large city construc-
tion projects
ticeship training programs and
community-based organizations
— approved a resolution to adopt
a model community beneits
agreement for use as a template
on large city construction proj-
ects. In the drat model CBA es-
procurement services and the
Portland Water Bureau to evalu-
ate the efectiveness of the CBAs
to be piloted on the projects.
The report, which is available
for download at https://www.
portlandoregon.gov/auditor/
article/589902, says the project
has largely been successful in
meeting its goals of increasing
workforce diversity on minori-
ty contracting projects; holding
contractors, subcontractors and
stakeholders accountable; in-
cluding key stakeholders in the
project; and engaging unions in
recruitment and training and
placement of workers.
It includes the following recom-
mendations:
• Consider combining the e La-
bor Management Community
Oversight Committee and Com-
pliance Subcommittee.
• Make improvements to tech-
nical assistance programs and
services.
• Restructure
administrative
costs.
• Consider both project duration
and hard construction costs
when determining an appro-
priate administrative budget.
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members and bringing in more Police
Review Board panelists to round out a
seven-member group.
Portland Auditor Mary Hull Caballe-
ro said the changes to the CRC were in
response to the DOJ recommendation
to reduce the rate of dismissals, investi-
“
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Club last Friday. Jo Ann Hardesty, pres-
ident of the Portland NAACP, moder-
ated a discussion among Portland Po-
lice Chief Michael Marshman, former
COAB Chair Kathleen Saadat and Dr.
Rev. LeRoy Haynes, Jr. of the AMA.
When Saadat was asked what the big-
‘Let’s not rush, but seek to install a truly more
simple accountability and review process’
gate more cases and to resolve appeals
within 21 days.
Hull Caballero said appeals haven’t
been resolved in that time frame, and
the problem is getting worse: “We are
experiencing an increase in appeal
requests, and the current backlog ex-
tends to next June,” she said.
Hales and Fritz expressed hope that
the community and city could come to
consensus on the key issues outlined.
Hales called for a stakeholder group to
form and the session was adjourned.
Police accountability was also the
topic of discussion at Portland City
gest challenge was when she worked
with the Community Oversight Adviso-
ry Board, she immediately responded:
“institutional barriers.”
Saadat said changing police account-
ability is complex due to competing in-
terests.
“We are working with several bu-
reaucracies all of which have their own
set of policies, their own individual
goals,” Saadat said, adding that none of
the current systems have a good way of
incorporating community input.
Haynes said his ideal police account-
ability system would empower commu-
nity members with
the ability to sub-
poena oicers in-
volved in excessive
and deadly force cas-
es and compel testi-
mony. Haynes said
that “trust is a two-
way street,” where
community
mem-
bers trust police to
treat them fairly and
without racial bias.
Former COAB Chair Kathleen Saadat speaks at Portland City Club forum on
“If you are really
Police Accountability. Saadat was joined by Portland Police Chief Michael
going to be able to
Marshman, Albina Ministerial Alliance Chair Dr. Rev. LeRoy Haynes, Jr. and
develop trust in the
Portland NAACP President Jo Ann Hardesty.
community, being
able to hold oicers
“I think it is either the best time to be
accountable for the excessive force and in policing or the worst time to be in po-
deadly force is critically important,” licing, and people need to pick a lane, to
Haynes said.
be blunt,” Marshman said.
Marshman spoke optimistically
Marshman spoke of changing inter-
about a cultural shit around police re- nal police culture and eforts to edu-
form. He said that he believes the time cate the police force on racial discrim-
for reform and community engage- ination and racial bias.
ment is now -- but not everyone in law
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enforcement agrees with him.
PHOTO FROM A YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT
“
attacked with bear spray
— a form of pepper spray
that contains a higher
concentration of capsi-
cum than pepper spray
marketed for self-de-
fense against human at-
tackers. Some outdoor
recreation stores — like
REI — sell bear spray in
canisters
speciically
designed to it the wa-
ter-bottle holders on
bikes, and market it for
mountain bikers who
fear they may encounter
bears on trail rides.
“People exposed to
bear/
pepper
spray
would be treated for ir-
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
Attack