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FEBRUARY 15, 2017 Portland and Seattle Volume XXXIX No. 20 25 CENTS News ...............................3,9,10 A & E .....................................6-7 Opinion ...................................2 Black Population ..........10 Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW PHOTO COURTESY OF UNITE OREGON POLICE SHOOTING Unite Oregon is launching an End Profiling campaign this spring. An End in Sight? New law aims to curb police profiling B eing unfairly and unequally treat- ed in the criminal justice system is a cruel reality for many people of color — nationwide and in the Portland area. As reported by InvestigateWest in partnership the Pamplin Media Group, in Multnomah County, “African-Amer- icans are charged three to 30 times as often as white residents for everything from pedestrian and transit fare viola- tions to drug charges and crimes relat- ed to interactions with police.” Police profiling is just one piece of the inequality puzzle, but its statewide per- sistence carries heavy socio-economic weight for its victims. African American defendants in Multnomah County paid about $21.5 million more than they would have if AP PHOTO ARCHIVE See PROFILING on page 3 Richmond (D-La.) is the new chairman of the CBC. PHOTO BY CHRISTEN MCCURDY By Melanie Sevcenko Of The Skanner News Portland Police Bureau chief Mike Marshman, left, and Mayor Ted Wheeled talked to reporters Feb. 10 afternoon about two officer-involved shootings the previous day. Quanice Hayes, 17, was killed early Thursday morning; Don Perkins, 56, was wounded later that day. Activists Call for Justice After Killing of Teen PPB is still investigating the fatal shooting of an African American youth and the wounding of a White man in mental health crisis By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News A ctivists will rally Thursday to call for justice for Quanice Hayes, a 17-year-old African American youth shot and killed last week by Portland Police. Communi- ty members have also start- ed a GoFundMe (https:// www.gofundme.com/re- lief-for-quanice-hayes) for Hayes’ family to assist with funeral costs. Hayes was one of two people shot last week by Portland Police Bureau officers. According to the Port- land Police Bureau’s press release on the shooting, Officer Andrew Hearst, a seven-year veteran of the bureau, shot and killed Hayes Feb. 9. Officers had respond- ed to a call reporting an armed robbery at the Val- ue Inn Hotel at Northeast 82nd Avenue. The victim described the suspect as a Black male who had fled in the direction of 82nd Av- enue. Officers responded to a report of a nearby car prowl and then established a perimeter in the area to search for the robbery sus- pect. They discovered in- dications of a break-in at a house on the 8300 block of Northeast Hancock Street and sent dogs in to search the house. Sometime after, officers encountered Quanice Hayes outside. Hearst fired three times, and according to police, when officers at- tempted to render aid, they discovered the teenager was dead. Officers released a photo of a replica handgun from the incident. Whether Hayes drew or pointed the gun is unclear. It’s also not clear wheth- er the canine officers sent New Congressional Black Caucus Trump Ushers in Health Law Changes Chairman Faces Proposed changes could lead to higher Challenges Wrap-up of The Grammys page 7 See SHOOTING on page 3 deductibles, a curb on special enrollment periods By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Tom Murphy Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Trump ad- ministration took steps Wednes- day intended to help calm jittery insurance companies and make tax compliance with former President Barack Obama’s health law less bur- densome for some people. But the changes could lead to plans with higher annual deductibles, ac- cording to the administration’s own proposal. That seems to undercut President Donald Trump’s assur- ance in a recent Washington Post interview that his plan would mean “lower numbers, much lower deduct- ibles.” The moves announced separate- ly by the Health and Human Ser- vices Department and the IRS don’t See HEALTHCARE on page 3 AP PHOTO/ANDREW HARNIK Black Press will be a key component page 9 to investigate the house were wearing cameras. Police spokesperson Pete Simpson told a Portland Mercury reporter at the scene Thursday they were, but at a Friday afternoon press conference said it wasn’t clear if they were wearing cameras or not. PPB released a booking photo of Hayes along with photos of the replica fire- arm, but told reporters he didn’t know where or when the booking photo had been taken. Juvenile criminal records are not Vice President Mike Pence, Human Services Secretary Tom Price and his wife Betty pose for a photograph following a swearing in ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex in Washington Feb. 10.
