Life as he knew it ended for Matt Capelouto two days before Christmas in 2019, when he found his 20-year-old daughter, Alexandra, dead in her childhood bedroom in Temecula, California. Rage overtook grief when authorities ruled her death an accident.
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Following George Floyd s murder, protests raged in Portland, Oregon for more than 100 days. Federal law enforcement officers were sent to the city, sparking even more demonstrations. I just see that we re doing a dance, but things aren t really changing, activist Mic Crenshaw says. Now it s COVID relaxation and everybody acts like let s go back to normal, activist Demetria Hester says, No! Nobody wants to go back to normal. Without that pressure, how do you get politicians to act with the urgency that the community has demanded? history professor Elliot Young says.
Today,
On Point: Back to Portland, and understanding the origins and impact of the city s culture of protest.
After a Year of Protests, Portland Is Ready to Move On. But Where?
The demonstrations that swept the country after George Floyd’s death lived on for much of the year in Portland, a city now engaged in finger-pointing and a debate over what comes next.
Protesters gathered behind a wall of shields and umbrellas in Portland, Ore., in April.Credit.Alisha Jucevic for The New York Times
June 9, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
PORTLAND, Ore. Defund the police? City leaders in Portland tried it. A unit in the fire and rescue bureau, one of the first of its kind in a major city, began this year taking some 911 calls about people in crisis, especially those who are homeless.