SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXIX, No. 50
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CENTS
News ...............................3,9-11 A & E .....................................6-7
Opinion ...................................2 Seahawks’ Bennett .........9
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
PHOTO BY CHRISTEN MCCURDY
NOT THIS TIME
Black Male Achievement Director C.J. Robbins, BMA
steering committee member Erious Johnson, Modica
and BMA steering committee member Justice Rajee
pose after Friday’s announcement.
Gang
Designation
to Sunset
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
A
dvocates who pushed to end the
Portland Police Bureau’s 20-year-
old gang designation are cautious-
ly optimistic about last week’s
announcement the database would be
purged by Oct. 15.
Last fall The Oregonian reviewed a
modified version of the list and found that
of 359 people on the list, 64 percent were
Black, though African Americans make
up just 7.5 percent of the city’s population
“It’s one-up for the minorities, it’s one-
up for the people who’ve always been
condemned in our city,” said Ronisha Har-
ris, who told The Skanner she discovered
See GANG on page 3
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
Advocates cautiously
optimistic about database
purge
A translator relates the thoughts of a relative of Hussein Hassan, a father of eight who was shot and killed by Kennewick police officers on Aug. 13,
during a press conference called by Not This Time and CAIR-WA (The Council on American-Islamic Relations) Sept. 7 at Seattle Vocational Institute. Not
This Time and CAIR-WA called for a full investigation into these police shootings and the other 26 deadly shootings by law enforcement in Washington
State this year. Many of the families who have lost loved ones in police shootings support I-940, which would increase de-escalation training for police
officers.
Lottery Conference Comes to Portland
The NASPL holds its annual event at the Convention Center Sept. 13 – 16
By Melanie Sevcenko
Of The Skanner News
GERBEN VAN ES/DUTCH DEFENSE
W
This photo from Sept. 10 shows people walking
toward a cruise ship anchored on St. Maarten, after
the passage of Hurricane Irma. Irma cut a path of
devastation across the northern Caribbean.
hile lottery play-
ers are still reel-
ing from last
month’s largest
single-ticket
Powerball
prize in U.S. history —
$758.7 million won by a
Massachusetts
hospital
worker — the lottery in-
dustry continues to inno-
vate in the background to
keep up with the game.
Wednesday kicked off
the first of a three-day con-
ference of the 52 members
and vendors of the North
American Association of
State and Provincial Lot-
teries (NASPL) at the Ore-
gon Convention Center in
Portland.
“NASPL is thrilled to host
its 2017 annual conference
in a city with as vibrant
and diverse an identity as
Portland,” NASPL presi-
dent Rose Hudson told The
Skanner.
As is tradition, the ‘host
lottery’ sets the program
for the conference — and
this year theme’s “Shift
Your Game” was realized
by the Oregon Lottery.
“It’s really a recognition
that lotteries need to stay
relevant to changing tech-
nologies, new demograph-
ics of players, and new de-
mands from the states that
support them,” said Barry
Pack, director of the Ore-
gon Lottery.
For the past year lead-
ing up to this week’s con-
ference, the state’s lottery
team has been busy pro-
gramming all the details
— from identifying topics
of the keynote speakers to
organizing panels, awards
and the NASPL Trade
Show.
“What we’re trying to
do is bring in local per-
spectives outside of the
lottery industry to share
their experience and ideas
to help lottery executives
shift their thinking on how
they approach customer
relationships, product in-
novation and marketing,”
continued Pack.
While Oregon is not
among the largest lotteries
in the nation, it is unique
in its games.
Witnesses say
White tourists were
evacuated first page 10
Kam Reviews ‘It’
page 7
By Melanie Sevcenko
Of The Skanner News
U
nite Oregon Executive Di-
rector Kayse Jama official-
ly announced his candidacy
last week for Oregon Senate
District 24, which covers East Mult-
nomah County along with portions
of Gresham and Happy Valley in
Clackamas County.
Jama has joined Democrat Shemia
Fagan – an employment lawyer and
former representative of District 51
— in the race to unseat incumbent
Rod Monroe for District 24 in the
2018 primary election.
Monroe ran unopposed in the 2014
Democratic primary and unchal-
lenged in the general election. But
he turned heads among his own par-
ty this year when he helped derail
House Bill 2004, which would have
See LOTTERY on page 3
COURTESY OF WWW.KAYSEJAMA.COM
Hurricane
Exposes Racial
Kayse Jama to Run for Oregon State Senate
candidate, co-founder of Unite Oregon, is
Tensions in U.S.V.I. The
campaigning to unseat Rod Monroe of District 24
Kayse Jama, candidate for Oregon State Senate
See JAMA on page 3 District 24.
