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Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Eastern Oregon wildire
grows to 50 square miles
Report says Pasco should hire
more Spanish-speaking cops
PASCO, Wash. (AP) —
The Pasco Police Department
should take steps to ensure all
oficers speak some Spanish,
improve the training of
oficers to deal with mentally
ill people, and hire more Span-
ish-speaking oficers in the
wake of last year’s shooting of
a man with a history of mental
illness that sparked protests
in the city, a training group
recommended.
The
recommendations
were released Monday by the
Police Executive Research
Forum, which was asked by
the U.S. Department of Justice
to study the shooting in the
central Washington city.
The report recommended
that the police department
fully embrace the concept of
community policing, provide
more opportunities for ofi-
cers to learn Spanish, attract
more
Spanish-speaking
oficers and provide oficers
with an understanding of
cultural diversity and the role
of implicit bias in policing.
“While the guidance in this
report is speciic to Pasco,
much of it can also be applied
to police agencies across the
nation that are facing chal-
lenges similar to Pasco’s,” the
report said.
The report noted an
upheaval in policing since
2014, when protests broke
out over the police shooting
of a black man in Ferguson,
Missouri.
Antonio
Zambra-
no-Montes, an orchard worker
from Mexico, was shot and
killed as he threw rocks at
police at a busy downtown
intersection in February 2015.
His death sparked weeks of
In this Feb. 19, 2015 ile photo, a photo of Antonio
Zambrano-Montes is displayed at a memorial in Pas-
co, Wash., at the site where Zambrano-Montes, an un-
armed man who was running away from police, fell
after being fatally shot by police.
when they ired 17 bullets at
him on Feb. 10, 2015.
An autopsy showed he
had methamphetamine in his
system. He also had a history
of mental illness and previous
interactions with police.
Cellphone video of the
shooting went viral and led to
weeks of peaceful protests in
the city along the Columbia
River.
Local prosecutors had also
cleared oficers Adrian Alaniz,
BRIEFLY
were required to ile their
second-quarter returns for
recreational marijuana by
Aug. 1. Oregonians legal-
ized recreational marijuana
in late 2014.
But it can only be sold
by medical marijuana
dispensaries until the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission
inalizes rules for the new
industry. That’s expected to
Oregon collects
$25.5M in pot taxes
SALEM (AP) — Oregon
has processed $25.5 million
in tax payments from
recreational marijuana from
January through the end of
July.
The state’s Department
of Revenue says medical
marijuana dispensaries
happen by next year.
Medical marijuana
dispensaries started
collecting a 25 percent
tax on their recreational
marijuana sales in January.
Anticipated state revenue
from recreational marijuana
through June 2017 was
recently quadrupled by
Oregon’s Legislative
Revenue Ofice.
PORTLAND (AP) —
Republican presidential
nominee Donald Trump has
canceled an Aug. 31 rally
and fundraiser in Portland.
Trump’s Oregon
campaign director, Jacob
G. Daniels, said the recent
trip to visit lood-ravaged
areas in Louisiana prompted
scheduling changes.
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Delightful with
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FRIDAY
Pleasant with
abundant sunshine
Sunshine
SATURDAY
Partly sunny;
breezy in the p.m.
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
85° 48°
87° 54°
86° 55°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
85° 46°
89° 49°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
74°
86°
103° (1897)
57°
56°
37° (1904)
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Year to date
Last year to date
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TEMPERATURE
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86°
103° (1946)
58°
56°
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John Day
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Bend
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Burns
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Baker City
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Burns
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Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Areas of low clouds, then
sun today; pleasant across the north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
and beautiful today. Clear tonight. Sunny
much of the time tomorrow.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Areas of low clouds early; otherwise, mostly
sunny at the coast.
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Clear tonight. A shower in places tomorrow
afternoon.
Cascades: Plenty of sunshine today; warmer
across the north.
Northern California: Low clouds followed
by sunshine at the coast today; mostly
sunny elsewhere.
Today
Wednesday
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NNE 6-12
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Arson suspected
in at least 14 ires
State authorities and
forest oficials say at least
14 wildires that have
erupted across central
Oregon over the last three
weeks are believed to have
been intentionally started.
Oficials on Sunday
did not release details on
which ires were started
by arsonists, but they are
urging the public to report
suspicious activity.
KTVZ-TV reports
that authorities say it’s
too early to tell if one or
several people have been
starting the ires.
The Bend TV station
and KOIN-TV in Portland
did say oficials have
determined arson is to
blame for the southern
Oregon ire that has
scorched more than 5
square miles. The blaze
near Paisley, which started
Wednesday, was reported
to be about 65 percent
contained Sunday.
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will send a bill once that’s
done.
The Oregonian/Oregon
Live reports that ire inves-
tigators believe 70-year-old
Dominic Decarlo, of Days
Creek, and 64-year-old
Cloyd Deardorff, of
Yuma, Arizona, used
their lawnmowers during
hours prohibited by ire
restrictions when the blaze
started July 30, 2015.
Kyle Reed with the
Douglas Forest Protective
Association says the men
were cited for unlawful use
of ire. Decarlo paid $110
in ines and Deardorff paid
$440.
But Oregon also holds
individuals inancially
responsible for ire
suppression costs.
The men could not be
reached for comment.
Bonebrake says people can
challenge the costs or their
responsibility in the ire.
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Forecast
TODAY
Two men suspected of
starting a wildire last year
that scorched 40 square
miles of Oregon forestland
could soon get a bill for at
least $37 million.
Jeff Bonebrake with
the Oregon Department of
Forestry says they’re still
inalizing ireighting costs
for the 2015 Stouts Creek
ire that burned east of
Canyonville. The agency
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
A wildire spotted
Sunday afternoon in
Eastern Oregon has
quickly become one of
the state’s largest active
blazes.
Fire oficials say the
Cherry Road ire has
scorched nearly 50 square
miles of brush and grass
near the Idaho state line.
Oficials say the ire’s
size was reduced from 80
square miles due to better
mapping.
Bureau of Land Manage-
ment spokesman Larry
Moore says the wildire is
burning two miles east of the
Owyhee Reservoir and it’s
threatening Succor Creek
State Park.
One hundred ireighters
battled the ire Monday
morning. Forecasters were
expecting afternoon wind
gusts of 25 mph.
The cause of the ire has
yet to be determined.
Also in Eastern Oregon,
ireighters have contained
35 percent of a large
wildire that started July 31
near Unity. The ire made
a run toward the Table
Rock Lookout late Sunday,
spreading 300 yards in
one minute. The lookout
was spared — thanks to it
being wrapped beforehand
with aluminum sheets—
but an old outhouse was
destroyed.
Ryan Flanagan and Adam
Wright in the shooting.
The parents of Zambra-
no-Montes have iled a lawsuit
in federal court contending the
oficers used excessive force.
That case is scheduled for
trial next May. Several other
lawsuits have also been iled.
Oficers Wright and
Alaniz have returned to work.
Flanagan has since left the
department.
After the shooting, the
Justice Department asked the
Police Executive Research
Forum to provide training and
technical assistance to Pasco
police.
The group has already
conducted training for Pasco
police, including a program to
focus on building relationships
between police and commu-
nity members. The police
department was also urged
to develop a social media
presence in both English and
Spanish.
The report also found that
community policing must be
promoted despite competing
concerns so that police can
better deal with the city’s
various communities.
In a statement Pasco City
Manager Dave Zabell said
the report will help the depart-
ment and community move
forward.
“The department has been
awaiting the publication of
the report in order to complete
contemplated policy updates,
and the department has been
holding off on signiicant
updates for several months so
that these recommendations
can be considered as part of
the update process,” Zabell
said.
AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios, File
peaceful protests in the city
of more than 60,000 residents
that is majority-Hispanic but
has a police force with rela-
tively few minorities.
In June, federal prosecutors
announced they would not ile
charges against the three police
oficers who killed Zambra-
no-Montes. U.S. Attorney
Michael Ormsby said there
was insuficient evidence that
the oficers violated the civil
rights of Zambrano-Montes
The Associated Press
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National Summary: Storms will drench some areas from Florida and South Carolina to
Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri today. Severe storms will affect the northern and central
Plains. Storms will dot the interior Southwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 107° in Imperial, Calif.
Low 31° in Dillon, Colo.
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Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
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El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
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Indianapolis
Jacksonville
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Minneapolis
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New Orleans
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New York City
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Oklahoma City
87
Omaha
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Philadelphia
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Phoenix
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Portland, ME
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Providence
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Raleigh
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Rapid City
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Reno
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Sacramento
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