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Oregon newspaper urges people to not call police…

The Scanner, which is a Portland, OR based newspaper that serves the African-American community has published a scathing editorial in the wake of a fatal shooting in Northeast Portland involving a black man and a white police officer. The officer who fired the fatal shot, Officer Ron Frashour, returned to work Wednesday in an administrative capacity. A grand jury cleared Frashour of any charges in the January shooting but also issued a report critical of police procedures and training. The headline from The Skanner newspaper’s Web site on Tuesday read “Having an Emergency? Don’t Call the Police.” Read the editorial here…

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