The BulleTin • Thursday, april 15, 2021 A3
TODAY
Today is Thursday, April 15, the
105th day of 2021. There are 260
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robin-
son, baseball’s first Black major
league player, made his official
debut with the Brooklyn Dodg-
ers on opening day at Ebbets
Field. (The Dodgers defeated
the Boston Braves, 5-3.)
In 1452, artist and inventor
Leonardo da Vinci was born in or
near the Tuscan town of Vinci.
In 1850, the city of San Francisco
was incorporated.
In 1865, President Abraham
Lincoln died nine hours after
being shot the night before
by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s
Theater in Washington; Andrew
Johnson became the nation’s
17th president.
In 1892, General Electric Co.,
formed by the merger of the
Edison Electric Light Co. and
other firms, was incorporated in
Schenectady, New York.
In 1912, the British luxury liner
RMS Titanic foundered in the
North Atlantic off Newfound-
land more than 2½ hours after
hitting an iceberg; 1,514 people
died, while less than half as
many survived.
In 1945, during World War II,
British and Canadian troops
liberated the Nazi concentration
camp Bergen-Belsen.
In 1990, legendary film star
Greta Garbo died at age 84. The
comedy sketch show “In Living
Color” premiered on Fox TV.
In 1998, Pol Pot, the notorious
leader of the Khmer Rouge, died
at 72, evading prosecution for the
deaths of 2 million Cambodians.
In 2009, tens of thousands of
protesters staged “tea parties”
around the country to tap into
the collective angst stirred up
by a bad economy, government
spending and bailouts.
In 2013, two bombs made from
pressure cookers exploded at
the Boston Marathon finish
line, killing two women and
an 8-year-old boy and injuring
more than 260.
In 2019, fire swept across the
top of the Notre Dame Cathedral
as the soaring Paris landmark
underwent renovations.
Ten years ago: The first of three
days of tornadoes to strike the
central and southern U.S. began;
according to the National Oce-
anic and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration, there were 177 twisters.
Five years ago: A North Ko-
rea missile launch meant to
celebrate the birthday of the
country’s founder, Kim Il Sung,
apparently ended in failure.
One year ago: The government
reported that the nation’s indus-
trial output in March registered
its biggest decline since the U.S.
demobilized at the end of World
War II as factories shut down
amid the coronavirus epidemic.
Today’s Birthdays: Rock sing-
er-guitarist Dave Edmunds is 78.
Actor Michael Tucci is 75. Actor
Amy Wright is 71. Actor Sam
McMurray is 69. Actor-screen-
writer Emma Thompson is 62.
Bluegrass musician Jeff Parker
is 60. Singer Samantha Fox is 55.
Olympic swimmer Dara Torres
is 54. Rock musician Ed O’Brien
(Radiohead) is 53. Actor Danny
Pino is 47. Country singer-song-
writer Chris Stapleton is 43.
Actor Luke Evans is 42. Rock mu-
sician Patrick Carney (The Black
Keys) is 41. Rock musician Zach
Carothers (Portugal. The Man)
is 40. Actor-writer Seth Rogen
is 39. Actor Emma Watson is 31.
Actor Maisie Williams is 24.
— Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
OREGON LEGISLATURE | What lawmakers are debating in Salem | More stories on A14
Measure 11 reform backers open to revisions
Panel that includes crime
victims is formed to discuss
changes; mandatory terms
for sex offenses could stay
BY NOELLE CROMBIE
The Oregonian
A bill that would do away with man-
datory minimum sentences for all crimes
except murder in Oregon remains alive
in the Legislature but is likely to undergo
revisions that could include winnowing
the list of applicable crimes.
Chief sponsor Sen. Floyd Prozanski,
D-Eugene, said Tuesday that Senate Bill
401 has been sent to the Senate Rules
Committee while a committee com-
prised of lawmakers, prosecutors, crime
victims and others discusses potential
changes.
Prozanski has said he is open to keep-
ing mandatory sentences for sex of-
fenses.
The bill is the most significant Leg-
islative challenge since the passage of
Measure 11 in 1994.
Proponents of the change say manda-
tory minimum sentences are outdated
and disproportionately impact people
of color. Prosecutors and some crime
victims argue that mandatory mini-
mums ensure defendants are treated
consistently and serve every day of their
sentences.
Any reduction to voter-approved
sentencing requirements requires a
two-thirds supermajority vote of each
chamber.
That means proponents of changing
the law will need all 37 Democrats and
three Republicans in the House and all
Democrats and two Republicans in the
Senate to enact reform.
FBI-led task force created to
fight Portland gun violence
Associated Press
PORTLAND — A new FBI-
led task force will work with
police in Portland to build cases
against people responsible for
an increase in shootings.
Creating a multiagency
Metro Safe Streets Task Force
came after much negotiation
and a guarantee for set bound-
aries on Portland officers’ par-
ticipation.
Under a memorandum of
understanding reached with
the city attorney’s office, Port-
land officers working with the
task force will be deputized as
federal officers but won’t do
immigration or crowd control
enforcement with or for federal
law enforcement. The city can
remove Portland officers from
the task force at any time.
The task force will include
20 Portland police officers, two
officers from police in nearby
Gresham and two from the
Multnomah County Sheriff’s
Office to coordinate investiga-
tions with federal agents from
the FBI and the U.S. Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives, as well as state
and federal prosecutors. The
FBI and the ATF each will ded-
icate one supervisor and four
federal agents.
The collaboration will bring
federal money, up to nearly
$20,000 per officer to reim-
burse overtime costs, to local
police agencies to do the work.
It will also bring additional
cars, equipment and federal fo-
rensic tools to do faster ballistic
analysis of shell casings.
The task force work will be re-
stricted to investigations after a
shooting occurs, authorities said.
The sharp rise in gun vio-
lence in Portland has mobilized
police and politicians to act.
More than 284 shootings have
happened so far this year in the
city, with over 90 people injured
and 18 killed. The city has seen
26 homicides this year.
If the pace continues, the city
could hit a record 100 homi-
cides by year’s end.
“The city can’t be allowed
to reach any kind of milestone
like that,” said Kieran Ramsey,
Oregon’s top FBI special agent-
in-charge.
Last year, Portland recorded
55 homicides — with 41 from
shootings, according to po-
lice. The last time Portland re-
corded as many was in 1994,
when there also were 55 homi-
cides, police said.
CLOCK SERVICE & REPAIR
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin file
The Deer Ridge Correctional Institution in Madras in January. Minimum prison sentences
are mandatory for some crimes under an Oregon law passed by voters in 1994 known as
Measure 11.
STATE BRIEFING
Protests in Portland,
Seattle lead to arrests
Portland Police declared a
riot for the second night in a
row Tuesday after a crowd of
about 100 people set out on
a “direct action” march from
Kenton Park to the Portland
Police Association office —
where fires were ignited.
One person was arrested
and charged with second-de-
gree arson, Portland Police
said.
In Seattle, three people face
charges after demonstrators
gathered outside the Seat-
tle Police Department’s West
Precinct for a Daunte Wright
vigil, police said. Two people
were arrested for graffiti and
another for obstruction, po-
lice said.
In Portland, police declared
a riot about 10 minutes after
the group arrived at the office
building, citing criminal ac-
tivity and the danger the fires
were posing to the surround-
ing neighborhood.
After the arrests, police said
many people in the crowd re-
turned to Kenton Park and
appeared to get into cars and
leave. In total, the incident
lasted less than 30 minutes.
Remains ID’d as man who
disappeared in 1979
In 1979, a 22-year-old Cal-
ifornia man went missing as
he was traveling to Washing-
ton state to visit family.
Decades passed, with no
word of Kenneth Bell’s fate.
But then a timber crew work-
ing in a wilderness area near
Molalla on Jan. 8 found skele-
tal remains, along with a white
canvas athletic shoe and a gray
metal ring with a red stone.
On Tuesday, the Clacka-
mas County Sheriff’s Office
announced it had identified
the remains, which included
a partial skull, as those of Bell.
A DNA confirmation is un-
derway.
Detectives believe some-
one killed Bell, who was from
Contra Costa County near
San Francisco.
Bell’s mother has died since
she reported her son missing
in 1979, when he would have
been 22 years old. Bell worked
in the timber industry in the
late 1970s, and frequented the
Portland area.
— Bulletin wire reports
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