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Salem officer survives shooting
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky
Bystanders gather on a street corner and look at police activity after a police officer was shot
and wounded on Wednesday in Salem.
“During that traffic stop,
the suspect in the vehicle
decided to open fire,” Upkes
said. “The officer was struck
multiple times.”
The officer, who has not
been identified, was able to
leave the area on her own
and then was taken to the
hospital. The shooter fled,
abandoning the vehicle
just a couple blocks away.
Police responded almost
immediately.
The Oregon State Police,
the Marion County Sheriff’s
Department and police from
the nearby towns of Wood-
burn and Hubbard joined
the search for the gunman,
Upkes said.
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“There were cops every-
where, at least 25 cars here,
three SWAT trucks, the
bomb squad and that RV
thing,” said Luke Slaughter,
a local resident. “We didn’t
know what was going on.”
Police with dogs and a
SWAT team searched for
four hours but couldn’t find
the gunman, Upkes said.
After they stood down,
detectives got leads and
tracked the suspected gun-
man to the same apart-
ment complex where he had
abandoned the van. Around
5 a.m., the SWAT team was
called back and surrounded
the apartment. A nearby ele-
mentary school was ordered
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precaution.
Slaughter heard police
negotiators call out to the
suspect on a loudspeaker,
saying they knew he was in
there and using his name.
“They got him out qui-
etly without any more casu-
alties,” Slaughter said.
Upkes said the suspect is
in custody, facing charges
including
aggravated
attempted murder. He has
not been identified.
The officer was treated
for several gunshot wounds
and released from the hos-
pital. Upkes said her bullet-
proof vest may have helped
save her.
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Republicans staged a
walkout last week, which
denied the Senate a quo-
rum and prevented the tax
bill from coming up for a
vote.
Brown helped negoti-
ate an end to the walkout by
getting Democrats to ditch
the guns and vaccine bills.
Smith Warner said her
push for stricter gun laws
in the state is far from over.
She hopes to revive a bill
on gun control this session
or in the February short
session.
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tibillion-dollar tax plan
that will boost schools in
Oregon.
“If I do nothing else in my
legislative career,” she said,
“having been involved with
that is really spectacular.”
But gun control is also
one of Smith Warner’s pri-
orities. And she didn’t find
out the political cost of edu-
cation funding until she
showed up at her office this
week. “I was enraged,” she
said. “It’s hard to say which
is worse, the gun safety or
vaccinations.”
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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
sacrificed a package of
gun control legislation and
a bill tightening vaccina-
tion requirements in order
to pass an education fund-
ing bill this week. But law-
makers aren’t giving up and
hope to get gun control back
on the table soon.
K-12 education funding
has been a major legislative
priority for Rep. Barbara
Smith Warner, D-Portland,
who is elated about the mul-
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A bill directing Oregon
agencies to sidestep federal
environmental rollbacks
has cleared the Legisla-
ture, and is headed to the
desk of Gov. Kate Brown.
House Bill 2250, the
Oregon
Environmen-
tal Protection Act, passed
the Senate on Tues-
day in a 16-12 vote that
largely stuck to party
lines. Brown, who first
suggested the idea in the
midst of a re-election fight
last year, has championed
the bill and is likely to sign
the legislation.
The legislation seeks
to undo changes under
President Donald Trump
that have weakened fed-
eral environmental pro-
tections. Once in place,
it would require the Ore-
gon Department of Envi-
ronmental Quality and
Oregon Health Authority
to assess final changes to
three federal policies: the
Clean Air Act, Water Pol-
lution Control Act and Safe
Oregon lawmakers still hold out
hope for gun control legislation
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Drinking Water Act.
In cases where the agen-
cies determined changes
were “significantly less
protective” to public health
or the environment than
regulations in place Jan.
19, 2017 — the day before
Trump took office — they
would be required to pre-
serve the higher standard
at minimum.
“Since 2017, we have
seen a lowering of stan-
dards in the [U.S.] Envi-
ronmental
Protection
Agency and other federal
agencies,” Sen. Michael
Dembrow,
D-Portland,
said Tuesday. “This is an
important bill to preserve
and protect public and
environmental health.”
The bill cleared Dem-
brow’s Environment and
Natural Resources Com-
mittee last week.
Republican Sen. Cliff
Bentz, R-Ontario, spoke
against the bill Tues-
day, arguing it mandated
blind adherence to rules in
place before Trump was in
office.
“That date is not the
date for the end-all-be-all
most wonderful federal
standards in the history
of the world,” said Bentz.
“No, that date has to do
with the end of one politi-
cal administration and the
beginning of another.”
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SALEM — A police offi-
cer survived being shot sev-
eral times at close range by
a motorist who was later
arrested Wednesday at a
nearby apartment in a cap-
ture operation assisted by
around 100 law enforcement
officers.
The arrest capped a night
of drama in which a neigh-
borhood of Oregon’s capital
city was swarmed by offi-
cers, including members of
a special weapons and tac-
tics team and from neigh-
boring police departments.
Streets were cordoned off as
officers using dogs searched
the area and advised resi-
dents to stay inside and lock
their doors.
The officer had con-
ducted a traffic stop on
Tuesday when the driver
suddenly opened fire, Lt.
Treven Upkes, spokesman
for the Salem Police Depart-
ment, said in an interview at
the scene. Residents of the
neighborhood, some still in
pajamas, watched as police
wrapped up their operation
on Wednesday morning and
reopened streets.
It started when the fficer,
who has been with the Salem
Police Department for sev-
eral years, was patrolling
solo and stopped a vehicle
around sunset Tuesday.
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