quanice hayes
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Portland, Ore., Reaches $2.1 Million Settlement With Family of Black Teen Who Was Killed in Police Shooting
A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Black teen shot and killed by Portland, Ore., police has ended with the city paying over $2 million to the family. According to ABC News, Quanice Hayes was shot and killed by Officer Andrew Hearst in February 2017 while Hearst was investigating an armed robbery.…
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Portland Police Sergeant to Cops: ‘If You Come Across a Black Person, Just Shoot Them’
This story is about a joke. This story is not about police brutality or cops shooting another unarmed black man. This story is not about a cover-up or cops getting away with it. This is a story about a joke. But in this story, a cop almost gets away with it. Instead of an unarmed…
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Hundreds Gather to Remember Quanice Hayes, a Black Teen Killed by Police in Oregon
A memorial for Quanice Hayes, a black teen killed by police in Portland, Ore., brought out hundreds on Friday, who mourned the 17-year-old and took to the streets in protest afterward. The Oregonian reports that about 200 people filled the Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church in Northeast Portland for the afternoon service, days after a Multnomah…