A Black 10-year-old took centre stage at an Oregon city council meeting after a potential racial crime in which a dead raccoon was left outside the Redmond mayor’s office.
The incident happened on 5 June, when Mayor Ed Fitch arrived at his law office to find “a sign with intimidating language and a dead raccoon had been left on the front door of his office” – mentioning Mr Fitch and the council’s sole Black member, Clifford Evelyn, according to Redmond police. The city of just under 36,500, about a three-hour drive southeast of Portland, is almost 90 per cent white, according to the 2020 census.
