MARCH 28, 2018
Seattle, Washington Volume XL No. 26
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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.