March 29, 2017
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INSIDE
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No Satisfaction
Grieving mom and reform
advocates push back
O PINION
M ETRO
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Advocates for police reforms have added their
voices to the mother of a teenage son killed in an
officer-involved shooting to criticize and reject a
grand jury decision finding no criminal wrongdo-
ing.
Venus Hayes, responding to last week’s grand
jury decision finding that police officer Andrew
Hearst was justified in using deadly force when he
shot her 17-year-old son, Quanice Hayes on Feb. 9,
said she does not feel the full truth about the shoot-
ing has been revealed.
She criticized the Police Bureau and the Mult-
nomah County District Attorney’s office for the
manner in which it has released information about
the death and disputed the official account that
three officers were involved, calling for a federal
investigation.
She accused Hearst of conducting an execu-
tion-style killing while her son was kneeling on the
ground with no gun pointed at anyone.
The Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for
Venus Hayes rejects a decision clearing police
in the shooting death of her son Quanice Hayes.
(KPTV photo)
Justice and Police Reform, representing the African
American community, also called the shooting unjus-
tified and said it points to the need for independent
oversight of Portland Police officers in the use of
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Arts &
Portland author Lono Waiwaiole and his latest fictional work ‘Leon’s Legacy.’
On Hoop Dreams and Gang Culture
ENTERTAINMENT
C LASSIFIEDS
C ALENDAR
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S PORTS
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Portland author and
retired teacher’s
latest novel
by F eLiCia s Lider
t he p ortLand o bserver
Basketball culture and gangs are once again inter-
twined in the latest fictional work by Portland author
and retired teacher Lono Waiwaiole.
The former instructor and coach at Benson, Jef-
ferson and Marshall high schools has just released
his third and newest novel ”Leon’s Legacy,” a book
series set in late-1980s Portland, when gangs and
drugs ran rampant.
Born in San Francisco, Waiwaiole spent his child-
hood moving up and down the West Coast. With a
potpourri of professions that also includes an editor
of a weekly newspaper, magazine, and professional
poker player, his career past is just as powerful as his
literary present.
Half Hawaiian, a quarter Italian and a quarter of
what his family refers to as Pennsylvania Dutch,
Waiwaiole says his tangled cultural heritage has had
a significant impact on the way he looks at people in
his life and in his writing.
“Leon’s Legacy,” released on Feb. 13 by Down
and Out Books and available on Amazon.com and
other retail outlets, searches for the motivation and
the solutions behind gang violence.
The main characters are two protagonists; Wiley,
the poker player and basketball passer, and his not
so passive and competitive pal, Leon, the basketball
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