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Volume XLVIII • Number 15
See Local News, page 3
www.portlandobserver.com
Wednesday • April 17, 2019
Established in 1970
Committed to Cultural Diversity
photo by
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o bserver
Civil rights organizers
Hector Hinojosa (left)
and Lynn Marzette
are on a quest to
improve police
transparency and
ensure unbiased law
enforcement after
an unusually high
number of officer-
involved shootings
involving people of
color in Vancouver
and Clark County
over the past few
months.
Shootings Bring Response
Vancouver leaders
look for answers
by D anny p eterson
t he p ortlanD o bserve
Two southwest Washington civil rights
groups are looking for answers after a
string of officer-involved shootings in
Clark County.
“The last five shootings in Vancouver
have involved mostly people of color, and
a young white man known to be mentally
ill,” reads a joint statement written by Lynn
Marzette, chair of National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People Van-
couver’s Legal Redress committee, and
Hector Hinojosa, who is the president of
League of United Latin American Citizens
Southwest Washington.
“To ensure the expectation of safety by
all citizens of Vancouver, there are still
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Thousands Drawn to Rapper’s Legacy
Nipsey Hussle’s life
inspired a city, world
(AP) — Nipsey Hussle’s legacy as a
persistent rapper, community activist,
uniter, doting father, protective sibling and
a loving son were underscored at his public
memorial service on Thursday, with deep-
ly personal testimonies from those closest
to the rapper, including his actress-fian-
cee Lauren London, collaborator and dear
friend Snoop Dogg and his mother, who
said she was at peace with the death of her
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Nipsey Hussle
Following a memorial service that filled the Staples Center in Los Angeles Thursday
for the late rapper Nipsey Hussle, thousands more people line Hussle’s a 25-mile
funeral procession through the streets of south Los Angeles. (AP photo)