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Inmates protest over COVID-19 response
BY JAIMIE DING
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With over 100 inmates
in Multnomah County’s In-
verness Jail infected with
COVID-19 over the past few
weeks, a handful of inmates
protested late Sunday night
and trapped four deputies in
a room after they responded
with a stun gun and pepper
foam, a defense lawyer and
a sheriff’s spokesperson said
Monday.
The protest began after an
inmate started to show symp-
toms of the coronavirus and
tested positive using a rapid
test Sunday, said William
Walsh, an attorney from Mult-
nomah Defenders Inc.
Later that night, a different
inmate demanded that every-
one in that dorm be imme-
diately tested for COVID-19,
Walsh said.
When that didn’t happen,
that inmate became bellig-
erent, Walsh said. He said
he represents an inmate in
the dorm where the protest
occurred but who wasn’t in-
The Oregonian file
A handful of inmates In Multnomah County’s Inverness Jail pro-
tested late Sunday night, trapping four deputies in a room after
they responded with a stun gun and pepper foam, a defense lawyer
and a sheriff’s spokesperson said Monday.
volved in the protest.
Deputies used a Taser on
the inmate who was acting out
and other inmates then be-
gan throwing chairs and water
bottles, Walsh said. The dep-
uties also used pepper foam,
according to Chris Liedle, a
spokesperson for the Mult-
nomah County Sheriff’s Of-
fice.
The four deputies who ini-
tially responded retreated to
a room in the dorm, where
they remained for about three
hours as inmates piled desks
and chairs in front of the door,
Walsh said.
The jail’s equivalent of a riot
team, the Correction Emer-
gency Response Team, then
arrived and broke up the pro-
test without further use of
force, Walsh and Liedle said.
Liedle said the disturbance
began when several inmates
refused to return to their beds
and one resisted when depu-
ties tried to escort him out of
the dorm. The cause is under
investigation, Liedle said.
Tensions have been high
ever since the jail’s most recent
outbreak of COVID-19, which
has infected 109 inmates at last
count — more than 20% of the
jail population. Though the
jail began vaccinating inmates
Feb. 2, administering 108 vac-
cines, several have refused to
get the vaccine out of distrust
of the government and the jail,
Walsh said inmates have told
him.
Vaccination begins
for Oregon inmates
The Oregon Department of
Corrections will begin immuniz-
ing inmates statewide starting
Wednesday.
Jennifer Black, a department
spokeswoman, said 5,000 Mod-
erna vaccines had arrived Mon-
day and were expected to be
shipped Tuesday to each of the
state’s 14 prisons.
The effort to vaccinate in-
mates was planned to start
Wednesday, with “COVID-19
vulnerable” prisoners getting pri-
ority, Black said. The vaccination
clinic will continue on Thursday
if necessary, she said The depart-
ment expects to receive another
5,000 doses next week.
The vaccines will be offered to
inmates but won’t be required,
corrections officials said.
Black said the agency esti-
mates about 75% of inmates will
get vaccinated. Oregon’s prisons
currently house nearly 12,600 in-
mates. Some have already been
vaccinated.
“We have communicated that
vaccinations will decrease the
number of cases inside Oregon’s
prisons and help us open visit-
ing,” she said in an email to The
Oregonian.
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Feds uphold denial of Jordan Cove permit
BY TED SICKINGER
The Oregonian
In another setback to the
Jordan Cove liquefied natural
gas export terminal proposed
in Coos Bay and its Pacific
Connector Pipeline, federal
authorities on Monday upheld
the state of Oregon’s finding
that the project is not consis-
tent with its coastal zone man-
agement plans.
Jordan Cove’s backers, Cal-
gary-based Pembina Pipeline
Corp., had appealed the state’s
finding to the U.S. Commerce
Department, hoping to get a
sympathetic hearing from the
Trump Administration and
override the state’s federally
delegated authority to deter-
mine if projects are consistent
with the Coastal Zone Man-
agement Act.
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The view from the North Spit.
Atmospheric Administration,
part of the Commerce Depart-
ment, declined to do so, say-
ing the company had failed to
show that the project is consis-
tent with the law.
It’s the latest of several road-
blocks the controversial $10
billion terminal and pipeline
project have encountered. On
Jan. 19, federal regulators up-
held the state’s earlier decision
against granting the project a
clean water certification. The
state has also denied a neces-
sary dredging permit for the
project. Without those approv-
als, the project, which has been
on the drawing board for more
than 15 years, cannot move
forward.
Opponents of the project
cheered Monday’s decision.
“Pembina’s last-ditch effort
to override Oregon’s author-
ity to stop Jordan Cove LNG
has failed,” Allie Rosenbluth,
campaigns director at Rogue
Climate, said in an emailed
statement.
Pembina did not immediately
respond to a request for com-
ment. The company could reap-
ply to the state for both its clean
water and coastal zone certifi-
cations, though it’s not clear it
would get different outcomes.
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Law allowing police to declare unlawful assemblies faces repeal
BY MAXINE BERNSTEIN
The Oregonian
Legislators in Oregon are
examining a law on the books
that now gives police authority
to declare unlawful assemblies,
which Portland police and
other agencies used frequently
during months of mass pro-
tests in the past year.
The American Civil Lib-
erties Union of Oregon has
called on the Legislature to re-
peal the law.
Police chiefs and sheriffs
across the state counter that
their ability to declare unlawful
assemblies is an effective way
to prevent violence, yet they do
think changes should be made
to the language in the law.
Under the law, police or
sheriff’s deputies or any chief
executive officer in Oregon
such as a mayor — can com-
mand dispersal when five or
more people, whether armed
or not, are “unlawfully or riot-
ously assembled” in any city,
county, town or village.
If people are commanded to
leave an area and don’t imme-
diately do so, the law also says,
“The officer must arrest them
or cause them to be arrested”
and they may be punished by
law.
Kelly Simon, interim legal
director of the ACLU of Ore-
gon, said the law doesn’t define
what constitutes an unlaw-
ful assembly and gives police
too much discretion. It’s been
more frequently used against
left-wing demonstrators than
against right-wing demonstra-
tors in Oregon, she said.
Simon told lawmakers that
a separate statute allows for the
criminal charge of riot, so the
state doesn’t need the unlawful
assembly statute.
A person commits riot under
state law if they’re participating
with five or more people “en-
gaged in tumultuous and vio-
lent conduct” and intentionally
or recklessly creating “a grave
risk of causing public alarm.”
House Bill 3059, sponsored
by state Rep. Janelle Bynum,
D- Clackamas, at the request of
the ACLU, is one of a number
of police reform and criminal
justice proposals introduced
this legislative session. The
House Subcommittee on Equi-
table Policing held a hearing on
it Monday morning.
Eugene Police Chief Chris
Skinner, representing the state
police chiefs’ and sheriffs’ asso-
ciations, said unlawful assem-
bly declarations allow police to
move a crowd before extreme
violence occurs.
The declarations are usually
made by incident commanders
or a chief in a police command
center — not officers on the
ground, he said.
For example, he said Eugene
police declared an unlawful
assembly in early January and
broke up a crowd of about 70
people as officers attempted to
intervene and arrest six people
fighting in the middle of a Eu-
gene street. That occurred days
after the Jan. 6 takeover of the
U.S. Capitol, Skinner said.
Dispersing the crowd was
necessary, he said, to allow
officers to safely move in to
make arrests and helped “de-
fuse” a volatile situation. Po-
lice chiefs and sheriffs high-
lighted as a problem, though,
the law’s clause that says police
“must arrest” people who don’t
disperse once an order is given.
“There’s no chance we would
ever do that,” Skinner told law-
makers.
Nick Chaiyachkakorn of
Portland presented testimony
calling the unlawful assem-
bly dispersals “an ineffective
shakedown tactic.”
“Every time I’ve seen law
enforcement in Portland
disperse unlawful assemblies,
it has not brought peace but
simply given cause for left and
right to keep protesting and
escalating the conflict,” he said
in written testimony. “It exac-
erbates conflict, rather than
resolves it.”
The House subcommittee
will consider any amendments
to the proposed bill and then
forward it to the House Judi-
ciary Committee for review.
The goal is to have a group of
bills addressing police violence
and systemic racism that can
be brought to the House and
Senate floors by March, By-
num said.