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In local news:

• An independent review of a 2021 fatal shooting of a man in a mental crisis by the Tigard police found that the police’s lack of coordination led to a “chaotic tactical response.” Tigard police were responding to a mental health call where Jacob Macduff had locked himself in his car outside of his apartment. While trying to remove Macduff from the car, an officer said he felt threatened when he saw a knife in Macduff’s lap and proceeded to shoot him eight times. A grand jury found the officer justified in the shooting while the city of Tigard settled with Macduff’s family for $3.8 million.  

• It’s a cold one this week. Tuesday is expected to be rainy and windy (with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon) and Portland may see some snow overnight into Wednesday. The real kicker is the overnight lows, which hover in the mid- to low-20s for most of the week.

• Sunday was the one year anniversary of the Normandale Park shooting, when a gunman killed one person and wounded four others during a Black Lives Matter march. Revisiting this profile of June Knightly, the woman killed during the shooting, feels important this week. Benjamin Smith, the man accused of killing Knightly, is expected to stand trial in April.

In national and international news:

• A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Turkey’s Hatay province Monday evening, killing at least six people and injuring nearly 300 others. Monday’s quake came just 15 days after the major earthquake in Turkey and Syria that killed nearly 46,000 people.

• Seattle could become the first city in the US to explicitly outlaw caste discrimination, pending a vote by city council Tuesday. The ban would create a legal pathway for people—most likely immigrants from South Asia where the caste system originated—to fight discrimination based on their caste. A study by Equality Labs found that 67 percent of lower-caste South Asians in the US surveyed said that they had been treated unfairly in the workplace due to their caste.

• US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is looking to create stronger regulations for freight trains carrying toxic chemicals following the derailment of a train in East Palestine, Ohio, which triggered mass evacuations due to environmental and health concerns. Buttigieg said the rail industry has resisted increased safety measures that would strengthen tank cars and improve braking systems on trains carrying volatile chemicals.

• This iconic goal popped up on my Twitter feed, so now we all have to watch it. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.