Local civil rights organizations met Friday morning to decry city leadership's response to the mass shooting on February 19, which targeted Black Lives Matter and anti-fascist activists. "We are urging law enforcement to call out white supremacy, we are urging [leadership] to be courageous," said Shaina Pomerantz, director of the Portland nonprofit Race Talks. "This is hard work and takes a lot of courage." During a virtual press conference, Pomerantz and others accused the city.
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Kat Knapp wasn’t worried when she crawled into bed Saturday night, despite not having received a promised call from her wife, June Knightly, who was out volunteering at a protest in Northeast Portland. “She had told me that she’d call me if she was out after 9,” Knapp recalled. “I didn’t get a call. But I've been trying to get better at not worrying about her at those things. So I went to bed and.