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NATION/WORLD Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Killing prompts Wyoming tribe to seek hate crime prosecution Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo, — The Northern Arapaho Tribe called on federal authorities Tuesday to ¿le hate criPe charges against a WyoPing Pan folloZing the fatal shooting of one tribal PePber and the Zounding of another at a detox center. Riverton police say the Pen Zere attacNed 6aturday by city parNs ZorNer Roy Clyde, Zho told investiga- tors he shot the victiPs as they Zere lying in bed at the Center of Hope because he Zas incensed by hoPe- less people drinNing and relieving thePselves in local parNs. The shooting folloZed an unsolved 201 attacN in Zhich a Northern Arapaho ZoPan Zas shot and Zounded in Riverton. “The trend of violence against Indian people in and around Riverton is alarPing,´ 'ean *oggles, chairPan of the Northern Arapaho Business Council, said in a prepared statePent. “It’s our responsibility as tribal leaders to do every- thing Ze can to try and stop these criPes of hate.´ Tibby McDowell/Riverton Ranger via AP This Saturday 2015 photo shows police officers sur- rounding the suspect in a shooting in Riverton, Wyo. Clyde, 32, has been charged Zith Purder and attePpted Purder. He is not yet represented by a laZyer. Authorities said 6tallone Trosper, 29, died at the center, and JaPes “6onny´ *oggles rePained in serious condition at a Casper hospital. He is a cousin of 'ean *oggles. Riverton, a toZn of about 11,000 people, is surrounded by the Wind River Indian Reservation, hoPe to the Northern Arapaho and Eastern 6hoshone tribes. The victiPs “are PePbers of our tribe, they are huPan beings and they Patter to us,´ NorPan WilloZ, a PePber of the business council, said in a statePent. “We are sicNened by Zhat happened here.´ An attePpt to reach a spoNesPan Zith the 8.6. attorney’s of¿ce in Chey- enne for coPPent Zasn’t iPPediately successful. Tribal leaders intend to travel to Washington, '.C., next ZeeN to Peet Zith federal of¿cials on the Patter. Riverton Mayor John “/ars´ BaNer said the shooting Zas a tragedy that left city residents puzzled and sad. “If the 'epartPent of Justice feels that they have to prosecute that as a hate criPe, I don’t thinN they’ll ¿nd an aZful lot of oppo- sition,´ BaNer said, noting that city of¿cials ePphasize racial sensitivity. BaNer said problePs Zith hoPelessness and public drinNing in Riverton have eased in recent years, since the detox center opened and has been operated Zith city support. He said the center has helped scores of people by sending theP for long- terP treatPent. Riverton City AdPinis- trator 6teven Weaver said Clyde has ZorNed for the parNs departPent full-tiPe since 2009. Clyde told investigators that he targeted the detox facility because he Zas tired of cleaning up after hoPe- less people, police Capt. Eric Murphy said. Clyde said he had long been considering Nilling people he called “parN rangers,´ a terP used locally to describe hoPeless alco- holics, according to a police investigator’s statePent. 'eaths froP a single punch not that uncoPPon By AIMEE GREEN The Oregonian 3ORT/AN' — It’s happened countless tiPes across Oregon 3eople get so angry they punch one another in the face. Most often those inMuries lead to blacN eyes, bloody noses and bruised consciences. Occasionally, they lead to death. One punch can Nill. Ten days ago, 61-year-old Potocross enthusiast Anthony Mancuso died after he Zas decNed by another Pan and fell, striNing the bacN of his head on pavePent at 3ortland International RaceZay, police say. Michael T. Taylor, 50, Zas originally arrested on a fourth-degree assault charge, but that Zas disPissed pending a grand Mury revieZ that could result in hoPicide charges. APong other such 3ort- land-area deaths: In 2010, ClacNaPas County sheriff’s deputies arrived at Boone’s Junction 3izza and 3ub in Wilsonville to ¿nd a 50-year-old Pan lying dead in the parNing lot. /eZis Allen Wilson apparently Zas the victiP of a bar ¿ght that spun out of control, and he died froP a bloZ to the head. No suspect Zas charged. • In 2012, a 51-year-old Pan strucN a 59-year-old Pan, sending his head banging onto the pavePent outside MaPa 6on’s Tavern near 6outheast 125th Avenue and 'ivision 6treet in 3ortland. 6teven *lenn Young clung to life for three ZeeNs in the hospital before succuPbing to his inMuries. Bary FranNlin Zas sentenced to 3½ years in prison. • In October 2014, a 42-year-old hoPeless Pan cold-cocNed a stranger, causing hiP to striNe the pavePent near the Zest end of the Burnside Bridge in 3ortland. The Niller, Robert /eZis BroZne, apparently didn’t realize he’d fatally inMured the stranger, WilliaP “Cougar´ Burleigh. Neither did passers-by, Zho riÀed through the dying Pan’s pocNets and stripped hiP of his pants before soPeone called 911 a Zhile later. BroZne Zas sentenced last Ponth to six years in prison. 'r. Karen *unson, the state Pedical exaPiner, estiPates that 0 percent of hoPicide victiPs die froP gunshot Zounds. That’s folloZed next in freTuency by stabbings, then bludgeon- ings and strangulations. One-punch deaths fall even further doZn the list. But it happens often enough that *unson, Zithout pause, is able to describe precisely hoZ a socN to the face can end a life. “They fall over bacNZards and they hit the bacN of their head,´ *unson said. “They often end up having a sNull fracture.´ The iPpact on hard ground causes the brain to ricochet into the opposite Zall of the sNull, soPeZhere around the forehead, causing hePorrhaging near the brain and death. It’s NnoZn as a contrecoup brain inMury. Or, in cases Zhen the victiP has been drinNing heavily, a punch to the face can cause an artery at the base of the brain to fatally tear as the head snaps bacN. A ¿st to the head on HalloZeen night 200 Zas enough to Nill 3-year-old Michael Carey, despite his sizable stature: Carey Zas 6-foot-3 and Zeighed Pore than 300 pounds. He died froP bleeding near the brain, caused as his necN tZisted and his arteries tore outside KC’s MidZay Bar *rill in Oregon City. 3olice couldn’t pin doZn Zhich of three suspects dealt the fatal bloZ, and all three Zere acTuitted of Panslaughter in 2009. 3rosecutors and defense attorneys agree that in Post circuPstances, causing the death of soPeone Zith a punch doesn’t aPount to Purder — Zhich under Oregon laZ is de¿ned as the “intentional´ Nilling of another. Attorneys say one-punch deaths are often charged as second-degree Panslaughter or criPinally negligent hoPi- cide, Zhich the laZ de¿nes as causing soPeone else’s death “recNlessly´ or Zith “criPinal negligence.´ 6tate sentencing guidelines call for a Pandatory PiniPuP sentence of about 6 years for second-degree Panslaughter, but no Pandatory sentence for criPinally negligent hoPicide. Cate WollaP, a public defender, said she thinNs those lesser charges are appropriate in one-punch cases. The act doesn’t aPount to Purder, Must because the recipient of the bloZ died, she said. “This is the 8nited 6tates, and the facts of the case are Pore iPportant than the fact that the guy died,´ WollaP said. Congress seeks legislative changes following pier shooting WA6HIN*TON A3 — 8rged on by anguished testiPony froP the father of a Purder victiP, Congress plunged into a heated debate over iPPigration on Tuesday as *O3 laZPaNers voZed to shut doZn funding for so-called sanctuary cities liNe 6an Francisco that shield iPPigrants froP deportation by federal authorities. IPPigrant advocates denounced the approach, accusing Republicans of folloZing presidential candidate 'onald TruPp in dePonizing Latinos. But after 32-year-old Kathryn 6teinle Zas shot this Ponth, allegedly by an iPPigrant Zith a criPinal record and Zithout legal status, even soPe 'ePocrats Zere calling for action to address the ineffective tangle of federal and local laZs and policies that left the Pan on the street. “We feel strongly that soPe legislation should be discussed, enacted or changed to taNe these undoc- uPented iPPigrant felons off our streets for good,´ said Kathryn 6teinle’s father, JiP 6teinle, Zho Zas Zith his daughter Zhen she Zas Nilled Zhile strolling in daylight along a popular 6an Fran- cisco pier. “We feel if Kate’s laZ saves one daughter, one son, a Pother, a father, Kate’s death Zon’t be in vain.´ Testifying before a soPber 6enate Judiciary CoPPittee, JiP 6teinle described his daughter as friendly, happy, adventurous AP Photo/Molly Riley Jim Steinle, father of Kathryn Steinle, killed on a San Francisco Pier by a man previously deported sever- al times, arrives to testify before a Senate Judiciary hearing in Washington, Tuesday. and full of laughter and love. 6hot at randoP before his eyes as they ZalNed arP in arP, she had tiPe only to utter the Zords “Help Pe, 'ad.´ “Those are the last Zords I Zill ever hear froP Py daughter,´ 6teinle said. “We’d be proud to see Kate’s naPe associated Zith soPe of this neZ legislation.´ The alleged Purderer, Juan Francisco Lopez 6anchez, had Pultiple felony convictions and had been deported ¿ve tiPes, but 6an Francisco authorities released hiP, reMecting a request froP federal iPPigration author- ities to hold hiP until they could taNe hiP into custody. 6an Francisco is aPong hundreds of Murisdictions nationally that decline to honor federal iPPigration requests, or “detainers,´ Zhich have been success- fully challenged in court and Zhich advocates say can unfairly target iPPigrants Zho’ve done nothing Zrong or coPPitted only Pinor criPes. The House Zill vote on legislation by Rep. 'uncan Hunter, R-Calif., this ZeeN that Zould shut doZn tZo different types of local laZ enforcePent grants to cities that don’t cooperate Zith federal iPPigration authorities, and cut off their reiPbursePents for the costs of Mailing iPPigrants in the country illegally Zho coPPit criPes. 6enate Judiciary CoPPittee ChairPan Charles *rassley, R-IoZa, announced Tuesday that he too Zas offering a bill to cut off certain federal funding to sanctuary cities, as Zell as require a Pandatory PiniPuP ¿ve-year prison sentence for iPPigrants Zho illegally re-enter this country after having been deported. The latter provision has been chaPpioned by Fox NeZs host Bill O’Reilly, Zho’s dubbed it “Kate’s LaZ,´ and has been ePbraced by a nuPber of conservative laZPaNers. “Enforcing the iPPigra- tion laZs of the 8nited 6tates is not a voluntary or trivial Patter. Real lives are at staNe. Things cannot continue this Zay,´ *rassley said. “No Pore people should die at the hands of those Zho breaN our laZs Must by being here.´ East Oregonian Page 7A TAX: Council passed a laZ that regulates city’s public art Continued from 1A for the highest gas tax in the state, according to the League of Oregon Cities. It Zill be the second tiPe in nearly a year that the city council has passed a resolu- tion to put a ballot proposal in front of voters. The council unaniPously voted to put a 10 Pillion capital iPprovePent bond on the NovePber 2014 ballot last August, only to have it disTuali¿ed ZeeNs later after city staff failed to post a state-required legal notice in the neZspaper Zithin a ZeeN of council approval. In other business, the council passed a laZ that regulates hoZ the city acquires, rePoves or relo- cates public art. In order to accept a neZ piece of public art, the council Zill noZ have to receive a recoPPendation froP the 3endleton Art CoPPission and hold a public hearing. Keith May, a forPer city councilPan and current art coPPission PePber, said the laZ Zas Pade Zith an eye toZard donations froP private entities. TZo of the Pore contro- versial bronzes — depictions of 6tella 'arby and 'on Requa — received PiniPal public input before the council approved theP. With the ordinance passed, May said the coPPission Zill be reforPed before it tacNles a strategic plan for the next set of public art pieces. “We’re going to have a little bit of a lull in public art as Ze ZorN through this process because its going to taNe a little Zhile to get through that,´ Mayor 3hillip HouN said. City Manager Robb Corbett said a utility fee on city residences and busi- nesses, Zhich only requires council approval, should be put before council for discus- sion in the next tZo Ponths. ——— Contact Antonio Sierra at asierra@eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0836. BRIEFLY Ohio Gov Kasich brings the GOP ¿elG to CO/8MB86, Ohio A3 — 6aying “big ideas change the Zorld,´ Ohio *ov. John Kasich declared his candidacy for the Republican noPination Tuesday and pitched his Zell-rounded resuPe to voters Zho have a Pultitude of high achievers to size up. Kasich, 63, launched his caPpaign at Ohio 6tate 8niversity before a croZd of 2,000 at an event ParNing the entry of a strong-Zilled and soPetiPes abrasive governor in a noPination race noZ Zith 16 notable Republicans. “I aP here to asN you for your prayers, for your support, for your efforts because I have decided to run for president,´ Kasich said in a scattered 3-Pinute speech pacNed Zith faPily anecdotes, historical references and calls for national reneZal. A veteran congressPan as Zell as governor, Kasich is telling voters he is the only *O3 candidate Zith experience in three broad areas of political leadership — the federal budget, national security and state governPent. He also spent nearly a decade at /ehPan Brothers. “I have the experience and the testing,´ he said, “the testing Zhich shapes you and prepares you for the Post iPportant Mob in the Zorld and I believe I NnoZ hoZ to ZorN and help restore this great 8nited 6tates.´ Lawyer: Tennessee shooter’s uncle GetaineG in -orGan CHATTANOO*A, Tenn. A3 — An uncle of the Pan Zho Nilled four Marines and a sailor in Tennessee has been in custody in Jordan since a day after the attacNs on tZo Pilitary sites, a laZyer said Tuesday. Abed al-Kader AhPad al-Khateeb told The Associated 3ress that he Zas barred froP seeing his client and that faPily PePbers Zere also prevented froP visiting the detainee. CoPputers and cellphones Zere taNen froP the Pan’s hoPe, but he has not been charged Zith anything, the attorney said. Al-Khateeb identi¿ed his client as Asaad IbrahiP Asaad HaM Ali, a Paternal uncle of the Chattanooga attacNer, MuhaPPad Youssef Abdulazeez. A Jordanian of¿cial said Tuesday that he is sure the uncle and “other relevant people´ in Jordan Zere being Tuestioned, but he Zould not elaborate and or con¿rP that the uncle Zas detained. He spoNe on condition of anonyPity because he Zas not authorized to discuss the case Zith the Pedia. Abdulazeez spent several Ponths in Jordan last year under a Putual agreePent Zith his parents to help hiP get aZay froP drugs, alcohol and a group of friends they considered to be a bad inÀuence, according to a person close to his faPily. That person also spoNe on condition of anonyPity, out of concern it Zould have business repercussions. Relatives turned to Jordan after their health insurer refused to approve an in-patient treatPent prograP for Abdulazeez’s addictions to drug and alcohol, the person said. An )BI spoNesPan has declined to coPPent on that inforPation. )looG Gamage to briGges worse than suspecteG /O6 AN*E/E6 A3 — The daPage to interstate highZay bridges froP Àash Àooding in 6outhern California’s desert over the ZeeNend proved Pore Zidespread than initially thought, Zith construction creZs ZorNing Tuesday to reinforce spans over three gullies. In light of the daPage, soPe outside engineers Zarned that the California 'epartPent of Transportation Pay need to adopt tougher design and protection standards for highZay bridges, particularly Zith abnorPally heavy rains possible in the coPing Ponths because of the ocean-ZarPing phenoPenon NnoZn as El Nino. Flooding touched off by unusually intense rainfall of nearly inches 6unday Zashed aZay boulders and soil under an elevated portion of Interstate 10 near the toZn of 'esert Center, about 50 Piles froP the Arizona state line, causing the collapse of the eastbound side of the bridge and severely ZeaNening the Zestbound side. 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