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MARCH 28, 2018 Seattle, Washington Volume XL No. 26 25 CENTS News ................................ 3,6,8 A & E ........................................5 Opinion ...................................2 Stephon Clark Killing ......6 Calendars ...............................4 Bids/Classifieds .....................7 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW PHOTO BY SUDIPTO SARKAR (CC BY-NC- ND 2.0) VIA FLICKR MARCH FOR OUR LIVES A new ad campaign, compelled by a 2006 court ruling, requires tobacco companies to disclose information about the health effects of tobacco. By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News t’s not news that smoking tobacco has adverse effects on human health — but new information about the full scope of its effects is continuing to surface. Newspapers all over the country — including The Skanner — have run ad- vertisements in the last two months detailing additional adverse effects of smoking tobacco. The major messages of the new ads include: • The adverse health effects of smok- ing. Example of ad copy tobacco com- I COURTESY PHOTO See TOBACCO on page 3 Davon Fisher, 16 School Shootings, One By One The first of a two-part series on the murders of teenagers throughout the U.S. page 8 Movies Opening This Week page 5 Thousands of people gathered in Seattle and nationwide March 24 to demand that more be done to address gun violence. Marchers in Seattle, Other Cities Throughout the Country Seek Tougher Gun Laws Students were part of nationwide effort led by survivors of Parkland shooting By Ahmed Namatalla Associated Press SEATTLE — High school students on Saturday led thousands of protesters in Seattle and other North- west cities demanding tighter gun regulations following recent deadly school shootings. Students in Seattle held signs that read “Not One More” and chanted “Right now, Right here, we refuse to live in fear.” Teachers protested President Don- ald Trump’s proposal to arm some of them to pro- tect students from poten- tial attackers. In Salem, Oregon, nearly 2,400 people gathered to march to the state’s Capitol. South Salem High School student Allison Hmura, 16, told the crowd: “There cannot be two sides to our safety in school where we should be learning, grow- ing and making friends — not learning how to duck and cover.” Thousands more also gathered in Portland to march, including Demo- cratic U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici. And thousands in Boise, Idaho marched through downtown to the Statehouse bearing signs with slogans like “Educa- tion without Annihilation” and chanting, “enough is enough. The marches were part of a nation-wide effort started by student survi- vors of February’s Marjo- ry Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which left 17 students and staffers dead. Since then, Wash- ington state has passed legislation banning bump stocks, which increase the firing rate of semi-auto- matic weapons. In addition to demand- ing tighter gun laws, or- ganizers in Seattle held on-site voter registration. Last week, Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law a measure that allows voter pre-regis- tration to start at age 16. “We never say register to vote; we always say let’s talk about the guns,” said Emilia Allard, an 18-year- old senior at Ballard High School, and one of the march’s organizers. “You can talk about the guns all day long, but we’re not elected officials. I can’t walk in and make that change. But if we’re elect- See MARCHES on page 3 Audits Find Racial Disparities in Gang Enforcement Reports call on PPB to increase accountability and transparency By The Skanner News Staff wo audit reports released this week by the City Auditor’s of- fice call on the Portland Police Bureau to show traffic stops are effective in addressing gang violence and to increase accountability and transparency for the bureau’s Gang Enforcement Team. It also found the police bureau continues to collect information about individuals’ gang associations despite its discontinua- tion and disavowal of a similar prac- T tice last fall. An audit of the bureau’s Gang Enforcement Patrol found 59 percent of the Gang Enforcement Team’s traffic stops targeted African Amer- icans. “Because the Police Bureau has not shown that these stops are effective, the audit recom- mends the Police Bureau an- alyze and publish data about Gang Enforcement stops, See AUDITS on page 3 PHOTO: PORTLAND CITY AUDITOR’S OFFICE Tobacco companies forced by a 2006 federal ruling to correct decades of deceptive ads PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED Ad Campaign Corrects the Record on Tobacco Use Two new audits say the Portland Police Bureau’s Gang Enforcement Team hasn’t demonstrated the effectiveness of traffic stops — and is still collecting information on suspected gang members.
