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Hardesty: protests due to ‘white male privilege’
PORTLAND (AP) —
The first black woman to
be elected to Portland’s
city council says “white
male privilege” is to blame
for disruptions and rau-
cous protests during council
meetings.
Jo Ann Hardesty, who
joined the council this year,
said the men act “disruptive,
disrespectful and self-cen-
tered,” and those behaviors
may discourage first-tim-
ers from visiting the coun-
cil and participating in local
politics. The longtime Port-
land activist said she ran
with a promise that anyone
and everyone will have a
“respectful interaction” with
leaders at City Hall.
“I am concerned about
how privilege, and specifi-
cally white male privilege, is
limiting the public’s access
to City Hall,” she said in a
statement read at Wednes-
day’s meeting. “There’s a
chilling effect on persons
who are unaccustomed to
coming to City Hall to have
their voices heard when they
see and experience the dis-
ruption that seems to be the
new normal.”
Hardesty spent years as
a civil-rights activist before
winning her council seat in
November.
Protests are common at
Portland City Hall, some-
times by members of
anti-fascist, or “antifa,”
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File
In this June 12, 2017, file photo, the presidents of the four branches in Oregon of the NAACP,
from left, Frederick Edwards, Corvallis branch; Benny Williams, at podium, Salem-Keiser
branch; Jo Anne Hardesty, Portland branch; and Eric Richardson, Eugene-Springfield branch
at a news conference at the state Capitol in Salem
groups who cover their faces
with masks and hoods.
Oregon Public Broad-
casting reports that several
men who identify as police
observers — “cop watchers”
is a term they use for them-
selves — and citizen jour-
nalists have disrupted Port-
land City Council meetings
in the weeks since she took
office.
The men are not affiliated
with the better-known grass-
roots police reform organi-
zation Portland Copwatch,
and two have been subject to
stalking orders for harassing
city officials.
Every member of the
city council has complained
about the disruptions, and
now-former Commissioner
Dan Saltzman said they con-
tributed to his decision not
to run for re-election.
In 2015, after an activist
sued, a federal judge ruled
that the city’s policy of bar-
ring particularly disruptive
people from council meet-
ings for months at a time
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was served an indictment
containing seven sex-related
criminal counts said to have
occurred between 2013 and
2015, when Sullivan was a
substitute teacher at La Pine
High School and an assistant
basketball coach.
At the time, Sullivan was
24 and 25 — his two victims
were 16.
count each of harassment
and coercion.
Harassment is a misde-
meanor. For it, Sullivan will
serve 364 days in jail. Coer-
cion is a felony. For that
charge, Sullivan will serve
five years of sex offender
probation following his
release.
In June 2017, Sullivan
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BEND (AP) — A man
who committed sexual mis-
conduct with minor students
he coached at a central Ore-
gon high school will spend
the next year in jail.
The Bulletin reports that
Dylan Todd Sullivan of For-
est Grove, Oregon, pleaded
guilty Tuesday in Deschutes
County Circuit Court to one
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was unconstitutional.
When
Mayor
Ted
Wheeler took office, he
passed an ordinance that
clarified what type of behav-
ior could lead to an extended
exclusion from City Hall.
That policy has yet to be
challenged in court.
Shortly after Hardesty’s
swearing-in on Jan. 2, 2019,
the city council meeting
was forced into recess twice
while Wheeler expelled
people for disrupting the
proceedings.
Man sentenced for misconduct with students
TODAY
Seattle
Brecht said the clerk
told Ramsey to leave,
and Ramsey responded
SALEM — An Ore- by pulling on the clerk’s
gon man has been charged beard, punching him in
with a hate crime, assault the face, pulling him to the
and other charges after he ground and kicking him.
allegedly attacked a Sikh Brecht and other bystand-
who was working at a con- ers held Ramsey down
venience store.
until officers got there.
Other
customers,
“We were really wor-
ried, I mean he
including a mil-
itary
veteran,
could have really
stepped in after
injured the store
they witnessed the
owner. He was
attack on Monday.
beating him pretty
Andrew Ram-
good,” Brecht told
sey, 24, of Salem
the TV station.
“He was bleed-
targeted Harwinder
ing, he had gotten
Ramsey
Dodd because of
punched quite a bit
Ramsey’s percep-
tion of the employee’s in the face, and kicked on
religion, according to a the ground and thrown to
court document. Among the ground very brutally. It
the charges is intimidation was very serious.”
Police said Ramsey
in the second degree, a
misdemeanor hate crime. threw his shoe at Dodd
Ramsey’s court-appointed and tried to steal his head
attorney was in a meet- covering. Ramsey was
ing and not immediately also charged with assault
available for comment in the fourth degree, disor-
derly conduct and criminal
Wednesday.
One witness, Justin trespass.
Sikh men have unshorn
Brecht, a legislative pol-
icy adviser in the Oregon hair, covered with a tur-
State Capitol and a for- ban. Sikhism was founded
mer combat Marine, told in Punjab, a region in
FOX 12 TV news that the South Asia that spans
assailant wanted rolling modern-day Pakistan and
papers for cigarettes, but northwest India. The first
didn’t have an ID and the Sikhs came to the Pacific
clerk wouldn’t sell them to Northwest more than a
century ago.
him.
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
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