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COVID-19 data for Saturday, May 29:
Deschutes County cases: 9,634 (30 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 79 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,201 (4 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 22 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,304 (6 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 38 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 201,004 (376 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,666 (1 new death)
New COVID-19 cases per day
SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
129 new cases
(April 29)
108 new cases
(Jan. 1)
90
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130
125 new cases
(Dec. 4)
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OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
Forestry veteran picked as interim leader
BY TED SICKINGER
The Oregonian
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The state Board of Forestry
voted unanimously to appoint
Nancy Hirsch as the interim
state forester and leader of the
Oregon Department of For-
estry while it conducts a na-
tional search to find a perma-
nent leader.
Hirsch’s appointment Thurs-
day came after the agency’s
embattled director, Peter
Daugherty, submitted his resig-
nation in early May after losing
the confidence of the board,
Gov. Kate Brown and the Ore-
gon Legislature. His last day in
office was Friday.
Hirsch is a familiar face,
having retired in 2019 after 33
years at the agency, including
stints as the chief of both its
fire protection and state forests
division and as deputy state
forester.
“Nancy has a wealth of
knowledge and experience in
forestry and fire protection in
Oregon, and I am grateful for
her willingness to return from
retirement to serve in this ca-
pacity while we search for the
next state forester,” said Board
Chair Jim Kelly in a news re-
lease. “I am confident in her
ability to seamlessly integrate
back into the department’s op-
erations and lead the depart-
ment during this critical period
of transition.”
Hirsch takes the helm at a
time when the department and
the board’s role are under close
scrutiny by lawmakers, the
governor’s office and outside
stakeholders. A recent foren-
sic audit of its fire finance unit
found a fundamental lack of
financial controls that contrib-
uted to delays invoicing and
collecting hundreds of millions
of dollars in fire costs from fed-
eral agencies, which created an
acute cash flow problem and
undermined other work at the
agency.
The agency is potentially
facing another big wildfire sea-
son, while some legislators are
skeptical of pouring tens of
millions more dollars into the
troubled department to bolster
its firefighting and new wild-
fire mitigation efforts. Mean-
while, the newly reconstituted
forestry board is striving to
reestablish its own credibility
with lawmakers and push the
department to make headway
on a number of big initiatives.
“I respect and care deeply
about the dedicated employees
at ODF and the services they
deliver every day throughout
Oregon,” Hirsch said in the
news release. “ODF is at a crit-
ical moment, and I am confi-
dent that with the support of
the Board of Forestry, Gover-
nor’s Office, and Legislature,
ODF can begin rebuilding
trust and confidence in our fis-
cal responsibility and account-
ability.”
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3 officers plead not guilty in Black man’s restraint death
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BY GENE JOHNSON
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Five weeks af-
ter ex-Minneapolis policeman
Derek Chauvin was convicted of
murdering George Floyd, three
Washington state police officers
pleaded not guilty in the death
of Manuel Ellis, another Black
man who pleaded for breath un-
der an officer’s knee.
Tacoma Police officers
Christopher Burbank, Mat-
thew Collins and Timothy
Rankine appeared in orange
jumpsuits by video conference
from the Pierce County jail
Friday as Superior Court Judge
Michael Schwartz set bail at
$100,000 for each of them. By
midafternoon, all three were
listed as on the online jail reg-
ister as having been released
on bond.
Ted S. Warren/AP
A woman walks past a mural honoring Manuel “Manny” Ellis on May 27
in the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma, Washington.
Washington Attorney Gen-
eral Bob Ferguson charged
Burbank and Collins, who
are white, with second-de-
gree murder Thursday after
witnesses reported that they
attacked Ellis without provo-
cation.
Timothy Rankine, who is of
Asian descent, faces a charge of
first-degree manslaughter. He
is accused of kneeling on Ellis’
back and shoulder as he re-
peatedly told them he couldn’t
breathe, according to a prob-
able cause statement filed in
Pierce County Superior Court.
Special assistant attorney
general Patty Eakes, repre-
senting the state, asked for
bail to be set at $1 million, cit-
ing the severity of the charges.
But defense attorneys argued
that their clients had no crim-
inal history, turned them-
selves in, and posed no risk of
flight or danger to the com-
munity.
“There’s nothing to suggest
he’s ever going to commit a
crime — he didn’t commit this
crime,” Burbank’s attorney,
Wayne Fricke, told the judge.
“If these guys were going to
run — and he, specifically —
that would have occurred in
the last 14 months.”
Ellis, 33, died on March 3,
2020 — Tasered, handcuffed
and hogtied, with his face cov-
ered by a spit hood — just
weeks before George Floyd’s
death triggered a nationwide
reckoning on race and polic-
ing.
The Pierce County medical
examiner called Ellis’ death
a homicide because of a lack
of oxygen caused by restraint,
with an enlarged heart and
methamphetamine intoxica-
tion as contributing factors.
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