/ Protesters gathered at Laurelhurst Park before marching to the Multnomah County Sheriff s Office in Southeast Portland on the third night of largely peaceful protests on May 31, 2020.
Civil rights advocates reacted with elation, caution, to the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict. Law enforcement in Oregon issued statements calling the verdict a measure of closure” for George Floyd’s family. Portland declared a state of emergency.
Oregonians expressed a mix of relief and caution Tuesday, as jurors found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts for his role in the death of George Floyd, a Black man whose death under Chauvin’s knee in 2020 prompted months of protests across the country.
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Volunteer medic hit by tear gas canister sues federal agents
ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) A volunteer medic who was hit in the chest with a tear gas canister fired by a federal officer during racial injustice protests in Portland last summer sued U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials and agents Monday.
Nate Cohen had just doused a tear gas canister that had landed next to journalists and legal observers on July 26 when he was hit directly above the heart by a canister fired from 20 to 30 feet (6 to 9 meters) away, the federal lawsuit says.
Tear gas canisters are not meant to be used as an impact weapon, which can cause serious injury or death. The lawsuit says the federal officer “intentionally misused the launcher as an impact weapon, which the agent s training prohibits and the manufacturer has not authorized.
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
As our country approaches the 63-year anniversary of NAACP v. Alabama the 1958 U.S. Supreme Court case which unanimously blocked the state of Alabama’s egregious attempt to undermine the associational privacy rights enshrined in the First Amendment we are deeply disappointed by the rushed effort underway in Congress to put such critical protections in its crosshairs.
The context of the case underscores the danger of rolling back its precedent decades later through the deceptively named “For the People Act” H.R. 1. Amid haunting acts of hate in the mid-1950s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) fought back against discrimination through direct and legal action. The organization’s ability to operate in the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement was effectively hamstrung by the state of Alabama’s scheme to compel it to report a membership roster complete with full names and addresses.
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