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Former Portland Police Sergeant Arrested For Soliciting Prostitution

Police say 30 sex providers under the age of 25 were offered trafficking victim services.
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A recently retired Portland police sergeant was arrested and charged with soliciting sex services during a recent human trafficking mission targeting prostitution around NE 82nd and NE Sandy Boulevard in outer Northeast Portland. According to Portland Police Bureau, Christopher Kenagy, 52, was arrested November 15 for unlawful prostitution procurement activities, and later released on his […]

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UPDATE: Portlander Shot By Security Guard With Alleged White Nationalist Ties Calls on DA to Convict

Kolby Ross is accusing the county prosecutor’s office of mishandling a case that let a shooter walk free.
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Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include a response from the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office. It’s been four months since Kolby Ross was shot in the gut and leg by a security guard in downtown Portland while walking past a club doorway. While his wounds are slowly healing, Ross’ pursuit for justice […]

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Convicted Felon Bill Cosby Is Going to Jail for Three to 10 Years

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Bill Cosby being taken away in handcuffs today at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Pennsylvania. Mark Makela/Getty Images Though some 60 women have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault—specifically of drugging and raping them—none of those accusations has resulted in prison time for Cosby, until today, when he was sentenced to three to 10 years […]

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This Is Insane: House Passes Law Calling For Mandatory 15-Year Prison Sentences for Half of All Teenagers

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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Elizabeth Nolan Brown at Reason: Teens who text each other explicit images could be subject to 15 years in federal prison under a new bill that just passed the House of Representatives…. Most of the opposition centered on the bill’s effective expansion of mandatory-minimum prison sentences. One vocal critic […]

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A Rape Committed Under Any Circumstance Is Still a Rape, and Horrible

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PHOTOALTO/FREDERIC CIROU In an Op-Ed published by the Seattle Times this past January, ‘Personal Responsibility and the Rape Debate,’ author Froma Harrop regurgitates the argument that to the victim, “true stranger rapes” are worse than those perpetrated by a non-stranger. This a mere week before a self-proclaimed pussy grabber assumed the highest office in the country, and it […]

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“White Privilege is the Reason the Bundys are Free.”

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Imagine if armed Muslims or blacks or Latinos had taken over a federal building. Anyone think they’d be acquitted? https://t.co/s9CFdojEDz— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) October 27, 2016 And the NYT’s Nicholas Kristof isn’t the only person who thinks the jury’s decision to acquit the Bundys and other Oregon standoff members was aided because of white privilege. […]

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Videos Show Terence Crutcher, Another Unarmed Black Man, Being Killed by American Police

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Dashcam video shows #TerrenceCrutcher was unarmed, had hands raised when shot by officer https://t.co/z1yh9lfLTt pic.twitter.com/GT3BMeHmlm— WSYX ABC 6 (@wsyx6) September 19, 2016 The New York Daily News: The fatal police shooting of an unarmed Oklahoma man with his hands up could be seen in “difficult to watch” video released by police Monday. Tulsa police said […]

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Convicted Stanford Rapist Brock Turner Freed from Jail After Serving Only Three Months

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Brock Turner has been released from jail. https://t.co/vOBZ4rsmvm pic.twitter.com/adCCYpRvul— Complex (@ComplexMag) September 2, 2016 Brock Turner, a Stanford University student convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman earlier this year, was released from Santa Clara County Main Jail this morning after serving only half of his outrageously short six-month sentence. Turner’s sentence was so controversial […]

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