APRIL 19, 2017
25
CENTS
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXIX No. 29
News ..........................3,6,14-16
SPECIAL SECTION
Opinion ...................................2
Calendars ........................... 4-5
A & E ..................................11-13
Bids/Classifieds ...................15 ................................Pages 7-10
FAIR HOUSING
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
PHOTO COURTESY OF TRIMET
TAX MARCH
According to TriMet, while transit police are
authorized to check fares, they’re primarily
employed to regulate safety and criminal activity.
TriMet
to Move
Precinct
By Melanie Sevcenko
Of The Skanner News
W
ith $11 million in capital
bonds, TriMet will be relocat-
ing its central police precinct
from Old Town Chinatown to
the Rose Quarter in the Northeast.
The announcement from the TriMet
Board of Directors has met with back-
lash from OPAL Environmental Justice
Oregon and its union, Bus Riders Unite,
which say the board is not adequately
addressing community concerns.
According to BRU, the money should
be spent to benefit riders, not on what
it’s calling a “transit jail.”
See TRIMET on page 3
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
Activists say the agency
is not addressing
disparities
Education activist and Garfield High School teacher Jesse Hagopian spoke at a rally at the Federal Building on April 15 demanding that President Trump
release his tax returns. After listening to speakers that included Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal — who talked about why more than 70 percent of
Americans want the President to release his taxes and show he won’t benefit personally from changes in tax law — the crowd marched to the Seattle
Center. Similar events were held in over 180 communities across the country.
Forum to Address Gun Violence, Health
Highland Christian Center hosts all-day community conference Saturday
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
SILVIA FLORES/THE FRESNO BEE VIA AP
O
Reza Nekumanesh, Director of the Islamic Cultural
Center of Fresno, speaks out against violence at a
gathering of faith leaders in response to a shooting
that killed 3 people in downtown Fresno, Calif., on
Tuesday.
World News
Briefs
Fresno, North Korea, Iran
and more
page 16
Global Sales of Ivanka
Trump Merchandise
Have Surged
page 14
regon Health & Sciences Uni-
versity, Portland State Univer-
sity and the OHSU-PSU School
of Public Health will hold a free
all-day forum Saturday at Highland
Christian Center to address gun vio-
lence as a public health issue.
The conference will include ses-
sions on strengthening families, in-
timate partner violence, addressing
one’s individual pain — and a session
called fear, trauma and the police.
Presenters will include families af-
fected by violence, as well as health
care providers and community lead-
ers: Mayor Ted Wheeler will emcee
the event and Antoinette Edwards,
director of the city’s Office of Youth
Violence Prevention, is also sched-
uled to present.
“It’s unacceptable when you have
over 30,000 gun related deaths in
a given year and they can be pre-
vented,” said Dr Alisha R. More-
land-Capuia, M.D., an OHSU psychi-
atrist who will provide the forum
keynote. “That’s unacceptable. We
understand that it is an epidemic.”
Moreland said gun violence is
caused by multiple factors and needs
to be understood as a complex issue.
But she stressed that the complex-
ity of the problem doesn’t make it
hopeless. Many of her patients have
survived severe trauma, and trauma
compounded with other factors can
lead to violence — which isn’t an ex-
cuse for the outcome, but can instead
point to a remedy.
“What we have discovered is fear
and trauma, when they are un-
checked and unmanaged, increase
one’s procliity for violence,” More-
land-Capuia told The Skanner. Ref-
erencing psychologist Abraham
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Mo-
reland-Capuia said when people
lack basic needs like food, water or
a sense of safety, most people will
See VIOLENCE on page 3
New Lecture Series Honors Dr. Norval Unthank
OHSU series named for Portland’s first Black doctor will
focus on health equity, disparities in healthcare system
The Skanner News Staff
L
ast
week
Oregon
Health & Sciences Uni-
versity launched an
annual lecture series
to honor Dr. Norval Un-
thank, Portland’s first Af-
rican American physician.
Dr. Edward Cornwell is
surgeon-in-chief at How-
ard University Hospital
and is considered one of
the top trauma care sur-
geons in the country. A
specialist in the treatment
of gunshot wounds and
critical care, Cornwell talk-
ed about racial disparities
in trauma care — and how
hospitals can change to re-
duce them.
According to Jamie Thay-
er, OHSU’s director of de-
velopment, the new lecture
series will take place every
spring. While last week’s
talk took place at OHSU’s
Marquam Hill campus,
Thayer said organizers
will likely move the lecture
to a more central location,
either downtown or the
east side of Portland.
See UNTHANK on page 3
Dr. Norval Unthank