FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXIX No. 20
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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.