Reverend Jesse Jackson arrived at the Marantha Church of God on NE 12th and Mason just before four o’clock. No sooner had I sighted him than a voice behind me said, “Sam Adams,” and the mayor was leaning in to shake the reverend’s hand.

JACKSON, MEET ADAMS. ADAMS, MEET JACKSON.
  • JACKSON, MEET ADAMS. ADAMS, MEET JACKSON.

“What message are you bringing to Portland today?” asked a reporter. “Let’s just hold on a second,” Jackson responded, before walking into the back door of the church with Adams, members of the mayor’s staff, and the Albina Ministerial Alliance.

Tom Steenson, attorney for the family of James Chasse jr, also showed up. I asked if he plans to represent the Campbell family. “I can’t talk to you at this point,” he said.

Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman showed about five minutes later, round the front of the church, looking like he didn’t know where he should be. Eventually he found his way around to the back door too, with his chief of staff.

We’re expecting them to emerge in just under an hour, with Jackson planning to make a speech at 6:00, followed by a march at 6:30.

Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.

16 replies on “Jesse Jackson and Mayor Adams Meet—Chasse Attorney Along for Ride”

  2. What exactly is the schedule and where is everything? (We canceled our neighborhood association meeting so we could go to this instead.)

  4. Um. . . Is someone advocating “bringing more blacks” to Portland? Last I heard, people of all races (other than the Irish) are free to travel and live where they please, without anyone “bringing” them anywhere.

    Also, according to your list, blacks pretty much just kill other blacks, so what the fuck do you care, you white racist motherfucker.

    Last point: Portland is very unlike Seattle, except that they are both located in the northwestern region of the US. In fact, the only thing the two cities have in common is their deep mistrust of Australians.

  6. Fact Guy is a racist. Nuf’ said. He should find a tea bagging party somewhere preferably far away from Portland. What a ‘Taitz-head’.

    I really hope that they make some ground on this issue and that it gets national exposure. The Portland Police have a lot of deaths on their hands due to crisis failures. I agree that its a hard job, but maybe there are other police depts. that Portland can learn from?

  8. Ted, the “fact guy” could just as easily be a black man afraid of getting murdered by another black man, as his stats clearly show to be a 50/50 proposition, at best. Or he could be a white guy worried about his black friends being murdered by the black people being brought here…in any case,I think we can all agree that with the passing of Steve Irwin (r.i.p.) and the descent into madness that is Mel Gibson, there really are no more trustworthy Aussies left. And without gentrification, we’d have no Mississippi neighborhood. At least not a trendy, hip, expensive one.

  9. Ah, shit! fact guy’s crazy racist stats are gone, so now I seem a little racist, which is ridiculous, cause I’m Rafer Alston. Not the NBA player. I get that a lot though.

  10. FACT: Fact Guy is posting the same comment multiple times on multiple posts, which makes it spam. FACT 2: If he continues, all his comments will be deleted.

  12. Ah, shit! Fact guy’s crazy stats are back! Now I just look stoopid. But Fact guy might be right…maybe all those stats do boil down to something as simple as the colour (fancy spelling) of one’s skin. Certainly it can’t be anything as complicated as systemic/socio-economic/institutional/regional/education/available resources and other factors and such, etc. That would be way too hard to figure out.

  13. isn’t it true that “Fact Guy” makes up a lot of his so-called “facts” as in spreading disinformation, telling fibs and/or outright lying. I bet he is a cop in real life, as where else could he hone his skills so well as he has and be such an abled and accomplished DISTORTER OF FACTS?

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