Representatives from the Albina Ministerial Alliance had hard truth for the Portland Police Department this morning. In the fallout from three killings in five short months, relations between officers and citizens are in free-fall. Reverend Leroy Haynes of the AMA Coalition for Justice and Police Reform said the group would independently investigate last Wednesday's fatal police shooting of Keaton Otis. For the rest of us still walking in the world, it’s ‘Take a Number’…
Siege status in the Oaxacan town of San Juan Copala. UBISORT gunmen killed a Finnish rights observer and a Mexican activist, Jyri Jaakkola and Beatriz Carino Trujillo. The Triqui Indian Ubisort ambushed their caravan as it attempted to bring supplies into the township. And after causing murder and mayhem, then turned to the government to step in and restore the peace. All this in strenuous reaction to the group known as Multi which declared San Juan Copala an "autonomous municipality" similar to what Zapatista rebels have established in Chiapas.
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