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Donavan La Bella, man shot by US Marshals in Portland, to be released from hospital
by Jonathan Levinson Follow OPB July 25, 2020 6 a.m. | Updated: July 26, 2020 5:28 p.m. | Portland, Ore.
Donavan La Bella, 26, was shot in the head by a U.S. Marshal and suffered a frontal lobe skull fracture during protests against racism and police violence in Portland. Two weeks later, before being released from the hospital, his mom said he still has cognitive problems and struggles with impulse control.
Courtesy of the family
Donavan La Bella, the 26-year-old protester who a U.S. Marshal shot and severely injured on July 11, is slowly recovering and due to be released from in-patient rehab this weekend, according to his mother, Desiree La Bella.
Desiree said her son suffered a depressed skull fracture in the frontal lobe, and as a result has impaired impulse control and some lost cognitive function.
“He gets upset and frustrated and angry very quickly,” Desiree said. “He doesn’t have that impulse control. He doesn’t have the ability to stop himself and say, ‘Hey, I probably shouldn’t throw the phone my sister just got me because I’m still stuck in [the hospital] and they won’t let me out.”
A federal officer shot Donavan La Bella during downtown protests against racism and police violence in front of the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse. In a video of the incident posted online, La Bella is seen pushing a canister of smoke or tear gas away from his feet across the street from the courthouse. Moments later, he returns to holding a speaker over his head with both hands. An officer then fired an impact munition and La Bella collapsed to the ground, dropping the speaker. He was rushed to the hospital and needed emergency surgery that same night.
The incident led to outcry from city, state and national leaders including both of Oregon’s senators, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General opened an investigation into the use of force by federal officers and Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said she would consider opening a criminal investigation against the deputy who shot La Bella.
Desiree La Bella said she had declined to take phone calls from politicians, saying she didn’t want to see a political screaming match over her son’s shooting.
“I don’t care whose kid it was,” she told OPB. “To shoot any object at an unarmed person is just wrong. There was no need for it. It was excessive. And especially as highly trained as they are. They know better.”
La Bella’s injury has become a rallying cry for demonstrators in Portland, with some protesters spraying graffiti calling for justice in response to the police attack. One person gathered at the protest front lines even recently created a plein air painting of La Bella in a hospital bed.
Jonathan Luczycki paints Donavan La Bella across from the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in Portland, Ore., July 22, 2020. La Bella is in recovery weeks after federal officers shot him in the head with so-called “less lethal” munitions.
Bradley W. Parks/OPB
Desiree lives in Oklahoma and said she can’t come to Portland to take care of her son because she doesn’t have a job in Oregon or a place to live. Instead, Donavan’s two older sisters are being trained on how to take care of him, and plan to help with his rehab.
Desiree said the family has received hate-filled messages on social media attacking Donavan and accusing him of being affiliated with antifa.
“You know, ‘I hope he goes to jail after.’ They’re calling him antifa scum. ‘Too bad it wasn’t a better shot,’” she said. “They’re hateful.”
To keep Donavan safe, they plan to keep him out of Portland for the foreseeable future.
Doctors told Desiree that Donavan has recovered quicker than they expected but the ultimate prognosis is uncertain.
“They still won’t be 100% sure if he comes back completely and how long that would take,” she said. “There is a little bit of damage. They just don’t know the extent.”
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Some irony if the fact that many who cry that their individual freedoms are being trampled on by face covering orders and stay at home orders are quick to cheer the use of unidentified troops against American citizen demonstrators who are for the most part peacefully demonstrating. If they are burning or looting, fine arrest them through normal channels, but tear gassing and flash banging entire groups of demonstrators to "punish" the few bad apples is certainly infringing on someone's rights! The demonstrations in Oregon were losing steam until the "storm-troopers" appeared, now the unruliness is sparked by those same troops! Typical tRump Admin. governance--don't de-scalate and quiet, try to "dominate" American citizens and really piss them off!! Way to go Donnie, it would be best for America if you would just crawl back to your bunker for the duration!
For the past 50 years, hard work has brought the poor nothing
Yet we praise meritocracy as though it were a god and blame the poor for being poor.
When I was a boy, I lost a five-dollar bill and my family had nothing to eat for the week.
Back then family-run grocery stores were not the novelty they are now. They spread throughout cities like veins, providing the continual exchange of small amounts of money for precious nutrients. One of them was just two blocks outside of The Projects where I grew up, nestled in a neighbourhood of two-storey duplexes where, I thought, the rich people lived. I had been sent there to buy the standards for the week: bread, lunch meat, carrots, onions, apples. No dairy. We got dried milk, cheese and butter for free on Sunday after standing in a long line at the middle school.
I lost the five-dollar bill between F building and the playground. F building was the last building in The Projects before the rich people's houses started, and it had the worst playground. An asphalt pad with two broken swings and a domed metal monkey bar that we called The Turtle. One day long past, I fell off The Turtle and landed on my head and had to cry all the way home while the other kids laughed. I never played there again.
I had stopped briefly to talk to The Monster. It lived under the playground, in the storm drain that caught so much of our childhood imaginations. It hated us because sometimes we threw toys down there. The big kids could reach to the bottom and pull the toys out,but only on a dare. I showed The Monster my list and my five-dollar bill and said I was going to get food to eat and he wasn't. Then I headed on to the store.
It was at some point between leaving The Projects and entering the store when I noticed I only had the list. Still, I kept walking, my scared child mind hoping, or wishing, or waiting for it to magically reappear. I handed the list to the grocer and he fetched items from the back while I got some from the cases. As he rang the items up in his register, I waited, scared and embarrassed for the five-dollar bill to reappear. It did not. The grocer was a nice man, he gave me a Swedish fish to eat. I had just forgotten the money, he said. "I'll set the groceries aside and you go back home to get it."
I don't ever talk about what happened inside my house.
On the following Sunday, my sister and I went to stand in line at the middle school and I carried the huge block of cheese home on my shoulder like a champion.When I think of the word utopia, I paint simple pictures in my mind. I have seen images of grandeur and majesty, but I am much too plebeian to imagine a land where everyone lives like a king. My utopia is the world we live in now, but with one difference: We care for the least among us.
Our society worships the lie of meritocracy, where anyone can be rich if they simply work hard enough. But I know how hard poor families work. My single mother had two jobs and went to school. How many teenagers know that, however hard they work, society does not care whether they live or die? That their grandchildren will still live in the same poverty?
Economists and politicians use gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator of our success, and for good reason. According to World Bank statistics the US GDP, adjusted for current US dollars, grew from $686bn to $20.5 trillion between 1964 and 2018. Growing our economy by 30 times paints a nice picture. Similarly, it paints a nice picture to show that the average hourly wage in the US has grown 10 times from $2.50 in 1964 to $22.65 in 2018.
But as a Pew Research Center article illustrates, $2.50 in 1964 had the same purchasing power that $20.27 has today. While the actual dollar amount of hourly wages has increased, so has inflation, which has increased the cost of goods. Inflation has eaten away those perceived gains so that the actual purchasing power of average US employees has remained effectively flat for nearly 50 years. None of the economic growth of the US, it would seem, has gone into the hands of the US's workers.
Despite the hard work of employees, the wealth of our economic growth has increasingly been concentrated in the rich. Since the 1970s, family grocery stores like the one I went to as a boy have been replaced by large corporate chains. No longer a neighbourhood exchange of wealth, stores became a place for the working class to maintain the same wages as 1967 while billionaires used them to amass the wealth of countries.
If all it took to succeed was hard work, we would live in one of those grand visions of utopia where everyone lives like a king. Hard workers are everywhere. From The Projects of the northeast to the coal mines of Appalachia to the barrio of southern California. From the suburbs of Paris to the favelas of Brazil to the factories of China. During 50 years of economic growth, hard work has bought the poor nothing. Yet we praise meritocracy as if a god, and blame the poor for being poor.
My utopia is not a picture of majesty, it is a picture of compassion. In my utopia, we would still work, but our economic success would not be measured by how rich the rich are. Rather, we would measure success by how we care for our poorest. We would not fault the working poor because they are poor, we would fix a system that forces poverty upon them. A small boy losing a five-dollar bill would not prevent a family from eating.
My utopia is unlike many in that it is simple, plebeian. We merely build a society that ensures care for the least among us. Unfortunately, it seems that my utopia is just as unattainable as so many visions of grandeur. We would only need to replace greed with compassion. But I fear that - for our rich and our politicians - that is too much to ask.
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“It’s a power play by Trump. He thinks he’s going to get his base all riled up by pitting the forces of law and order against the anarchists,” said Josh O’Brien, who travelled from Seattle to join the protests. “But he’s fucked it up like he fucks everything up. Look who’s here with us. Grandmothers. Doctors. Because like most Americans they don’t think people should be abducted from the streets by the president’s secret police.”
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trump was recored on tae someone telling him 100000 people will probably catch the virus in the next month and so many people can die from it--trump said he can live with that--basically saying he can deal with people dying---
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In less than 4 months donnie will be so last year's news. Even his diehard supporters like Ms Lindsey Graham are abandoning him. Kellyanne has asked her husband to say a good word about herself to Joe.