COUNTY CHAIR RELEASES FOOTAGE OF ARGUMENT OUTSIDE LIBRARY: Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson asked District Attorney Nathan Vasquez on Monday to release security video taken before a stabbing Aug. 25 outside the Central Library. Vega Pederson wrote there was a “serious discrepancy” between the Portland police account of what occurred and what is reflected in the footage, adding that the information shared publicly “appears to rush to judgment around a serious incident involving young Black people despite the existence of video footage and statements that are more complicated.” DA Vasquez fired back, telling the chair she could release the footage herself. He also announced that a grand jury had indicted three young people on charges related to the stabbing. So, on Monday eveni
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