In March, Dora McCrae, a soft-spoken 71-year-old, African-American woman, found herself in the spotlight of Portland’s civil rights movement. Two years earlier, she had been roughly dragged from a van by a police officer; since then, and with little public support, her formal complaint against the police bureau and pending lawsuit have slowly and silently […]
Stacey Croll
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Hide and Seek
NAACP Cries Foul At Cops’ Heavy-Handed Manhunt
Off MLK Blvd in Northeast Portland is a squat, tan building that houses the NAACP. Last Wednesday, a small group of scared and angry parents, grandparents, siblings, and girlfriends filed into the building to talk about the most recent friction between Portland Police and the city’s African American community. Over the past two weeks, police […]
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Punks on Trial
Nine-Year Prison Sentences Loom for Partying Punkers
A little more than a month ago, Keri Salim, owner of Chez What? Café in Northeast Portland, found herself nervously addressing a closed-door, private youth crime discussion that included Mayor Vera Katz and officers from the Northeast Police Precinct. Amid back-slapping endorsements for more gang enforcement in the neighborhood, Salim put forth a lone dissenting […]