Closed Caption File of Portland City Council Meeting
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Key: ***** means unidentified speaker.
Wheeler: Good afternoon. This is the afternoon session of the Portland city council, may 24, 2017.
Please call the roll. [roll call taken]
Wheeler: Today's council session we're not taking a vote, not deliberating on anything. Today's
presentation is sponsored by commissioners Fritz and eudaly at the request of the family of quanice
hayes. Commissioner Fritz.
Fritz: Thank you, mayor. Earlier this year, tressa rayford brought donna hayes and others to my
office requesting time on the record on the life of quanice hayes. As many may know, the other
community members have been testifying on a lot of other items unrelated because it's a desire to
talk about this issue. I want to thank my office for working with the hayes family and my
colleagues on the council including commissioner eudaly, sponsoring this event, to do this unusual
presentation. The rules of the meeting are different. We have allowed. [audio not understandable]
mrs. Hayes is going to lead the presentation. The people that she has invited to speak will be able to
speak here. This is scheduled for two hours. Our job on the council and others in the audience who
are not invited to be part of the testimony and presentation are just to be active listeners to be sure
we hear what the family is saying. Commissioner eudaly.
Eudaly: First I would like to mention if anyone feels like they need to take a break, have a quiet
space or if you brought children that needs a break, my office is open and the conference room has
some snacks for everyone. As commissioner Fritz has already mentioned, we're here today at the
request of donna hayes to honor the life of her grandson quanice, fatally shot this year. The
shooting is the subject of an ongoing investigation. We cannot as council comment on specific
circumstances but I would like to extend our condolences to the friends and family of quanice
hayes. As the mother of a teenage son, my heart has broken 100 times for the hayes family
imagining their pain and loss. My extended family experienced a similar loss three years ago so I
know all too well the devastating ongoing impact that such a traumatic event has. As a city,
community and council, we must commit to creating police policies and procedures that improve
community interactions, repair relations, especially with communities of color, and provide
accountability and transparency to create a safer community for all of us. I want to thank the family
of quanice hayes for the strength and bravery that they have demonstrated by bringing this matter
to council and helping to continue this vitally important dialogue during what is an incredibly
challenging time for them. I would now like to welcome donna hayes to the table. Thank you for
being here.
*****: Good afternoon.
Wheeler: Good afternoon.
Fritz: Good afternoon.
*****: I'm donna hayes. Greetings, mayor wheeler and commissioners. Thank you for the time you
are giving me as a grieving grandmother who had to aid in burying her grandson. I want to first say
to you, my mayor and police commissioner, that I voted for you. I don't give up my vote easily.
With the investigation, reasoning and prayer, I chose you. I saw a man with a heart full of
compassion with a drive unmatched. I knew when I voted for you that you stood for ban the box.
You promised to build a better government and accountability. The basic rights Oregon endorsed
you because you care. Now, let me tell you a little about me. I am from chicago. I left chicago

 because I felt it was becoming an open season on children. I came to Portland in 1998 with two
young sons. In 1999 I had my youngest daughter and encouraged my oldest daughter, who was
pregnant with her first born. Slowly over time all my children, my mother, my sister, and brother,
and their children, came too from my urging and description of this beautiful city. This was a place
where people stopped their cars and flagged you across. You could learn someone's life story at the
bus stop. Over time I learned something else. This state didn't want me here. In 1859, Oregon
became a state with a black exclusion law written into its constitution. Another example is how
Oregon refused to sign the 14th amendment and they didn't want me to vote. I couldn't marry
someone who looked like you. I looked past these things even after reading an article by atlantic
calling Portland the whitest city in america. Despite Oregon working to make this a white utopia, I
stayed and encouraged my family to stay. I left chicago for peace. Here I thought I had it. On
february 9, 2017, the city of Portland declared war on my family and the first casualty was quanice
hayes. My 17-year-old grandson. I plan to fight this war. Yes, we hear from black movements like
we were here testing the water. My son, a professional, headed to a sports bar to watch his favorite
team. He was pulled over and forced to explain his coming and going. Has that ever happened to
you? Commissioners, this one I like. My son and I were walking down southeast ankeny from 122
to 117th. This is a stretch of road with no sidewalks. A police car pulled beside us. An officer
directed his rough statement to my son, even though we were walking together. He said, get on the
sidewalk. My son pointed out the obvious, there's no sidewalks. He then just skirted away, just this
is just two. There is a lot more of them. My family, friends and extended family have having black
moments here in Portland. Getting back to the war on that fateful day in february, two people were
shot in this utopia. One plaque, one white. Guess who lived. This year, to date, there were four
police shootings. Two lived. A white man and a dog. Two died. They were plaque. This makes me
feel like my grandson was less than a vicious dog. I read the mission value and goals for the police
department and I wasn't sure if I should laugh or cry or both. Their mission is to preserve life.
Whose? Whom? Mr. Perkins or quanice hayes? The value that they are supposed to have is
nonexistent. Where is the integrity when one commits a crime and the other in blue stands on their
life? Where is the compassion when a 65-year-old is slammed to the ground or a group in a
stairwell pepper sprayed? Where is the accountability when every grand jury hearing for. [audio not
understandable] or never find an arrow and a cop. Where is the respect when the police tell the
press before the family? So they call and learn about their loved one just like the public. Where is
the excellence when a police beat up kids and feel justified for it? My other grandson at age 15
suffered this act. Where is the service when on the same day a white is wounded and a black child
is killed, this is the police bureau's written values? In the directive for Portland's police goals and
policy section it says our police is guided by the possible that the individual has dignity and worth.
Hi to stop writing because this statement broke my heart. My grandson on his knees shot in the
head. He had no dignity. No worth. The dog that was shot by the police had more worth. The police
show our family worth by dragging my grandson's name through the mud. It made me think
according to the police contract about embarrassing a police officer what makes them better than
most? I want you to know you hear most often that's what we call my grandson. Did you know the
birth of american police came from the institution of slavery? Slave patrols, night watch, they
became modern day police department. If you want more details, google it. You'll be surprised. I'm
going to stay on track. I know this is a war. I will not fight like militarized police force but as a
citizen with a voice. The city, county, state, country will hear not only for my people but for all the
silent voices. For brown people. Homeless. For our mentally ill. Again, for those silenced, unable
to speak from the grave. I will be the strong voice in this. Again, my name is donna hayes.
Remember it. You will hear it again. Know this is a revolutionary war. Just like the one fought by
this country against the british, but this one will be against our government, who stands by at least
these -- and let's these atrocities stand with a blind eye. Did you know the people protested their

 harsh treatment and they were arrested like you're doing now? Just like schaffer was arrested, was
standing with my family over the murder of my grandson quanice. I hope this is not your way of
silencing this revolution for this is not going to happen. You arrest one, two takes their place. If
you have not noticed the growth of these organizations, look. Don't shoot Portland, plaque lives
matter. Black panthers. And many grass roots organizations that are popping up in this city you
manage. These are organizations that are fought by citizens of Portland. If you watch closely, you
will notice that the color lines are blurred. Where once this city stood divided and looked at them,
now joining together to fight a common enemy, your city military, the police. Mayor wheeler, I
don't envy your job. I believe you knew ex mayor hales said to us you took the job anyway. You
became a mayor of a broken city with dirty little secrets. When these people protest at your home
your first reaction was to remove them. I'm sorry, but just like the president of the country, you
have a 24-hour seven days a week job. Even on your vacation if a problem arise you gotta come
back. We often hear police accountability. I say before accountability we need to demilitarize them
first. Soldiers and police shouldn't look the same. They should be different. Our cities are using
federal dollars to build small armies as our police force. This brings us the idea war on drugs. For
all who don't know, that was the farce nixon created to keep the irritated off his agenda. Hippies.
Plaque and heroin. This is the curve the civil -- to curb the civil rights movement. You know there
can be no accountability if we don't know what happened. I personally cannot live with myself if I
knew it was wrong. Do nothing about it. But he or she didn't do it but he or she didn't tell. I laugh
and think about all the detective programs they have out. They want you to talk. But they don't give
up this concept. Where is the accountability in that? Police accountability can they be held
accountable when they are protected from above? I am not talking about the union because it is
their job to protect the police. I'm talking about the d.a. And judges. Here is where an example. D.a.
Rod hill -- underhill was responsible for indicting andrew hurst 2013 for the murder of mr. Hatch.
It those men 12 minutes from arriving to end the man's life that was having a mental health crisis.
Because of a of indictment because of lack of indictment he was free to murder my grandson. Now
with no hope of indictment because Portland's working on not indicting police, hirsch is free to kill
again. It took him four years to kill quanice. I wonder whose family member he will take out next. I
wonder maybe that our d.a. Doesn't have enough evidence to set before a grand jury. Most jobs
require. [audio not understandable] our police are not required to take one after a shooting. How
about this? They have 48 hours to get their lie in order before they have to make a statement. This
is a real good one, the victim is put on trial. And being dead, they can't defend themselves. They
make the victim at fault. The judge and the grand jury then accept this as you deserve it. The few
transcripts I could get showed me the same thing, victim guilty. Cop innocent. I have read quite a
few. I mean not just here new year this state but across the country. I have been reading. When
problems arise with your military in blue you need to be on the scene. I watch you on the scene of
your fourth shooting. Commissioners, you should have about been on the scene when your military
in blue shot the dog. My grandson that morning and mr. Perkins that evening. They are your
responsibilities too, sir. The cities have a messy way of handling our rights. The police should be
demilitarized for they are not an army. When hirsch first arrived he went for an assault rifle. On the
day of my grandson's burial we came downtown and was met for our efforts by an army. They had
teargas. We had children. I had a seven month old. My daughter had her 11-year-old at her side. A
child was pushed over by your army. Oh, god, have I heard stories. One with your citizens racing
down a stairwell followed by pepper spray and people being trampled. That is frightening. These
are people that your job mandates that you take care of, protect, see to their well-being. It's said
they are bug deed, tortured and killed by the ones we thought we need. My 74-year-old mother had
to bury her great grandson also, and was forced to watch an illegal arrest of a man who just was
keeping her faith. He stood in front of her and the police pushed him off the sidewalk and arrested
him. The image on the news of police wearing helmets toting assault rifles and riot in armored

 vehicles. Why is the police department like an army in when we protest against harsh treatment of
police dressed like an army, they shouldn't look or dress like an army. Don't we have the national
guard for military use? Why do our police look like they are going to war when they are about to
engage the citizens? They have sworn to protect. We are not the enemy. Not until they kill one of
us. Then they become our enemies as they become my enemy. They make enemies by stomping,
dragging, beating, pepper spraying and murdering our families. We do have a tank or armored
vehicle y. Do we have an armored vehicle? From my perspective they protect from their mind. For
real, land mines? Where in Portland are there land mines? If there are land mines, would you
inform the citizens where they are? So we can be protected. We won't go that way. Assault
weapons, now we are back to war again. Are there cartels in Portland? Do we really need assault
weapons, armored vehicles here? Did I really misjudge this place being clean, green and friendly?
I'm here seeking answers. You all just explained quanice' death away. I read 509 page grand jury
transcript. No one was seeking the truth the way things was looked. It was the way to justify
hirsch's murder of quanice. The just fix didn't just end there. Another officer stated she told quanice
about having a b-b gun that looked real and she didn't bother to tell his mother. That day she talked
to his mother. I don't understand why she didn't tell her. The officer had a perfect opportunity when
she talked to his mother or was this to cover your own butt after the fact or just to give them the
benefit of the doubt? They were waiting on an opportunity to use him as target practice so let's keep
this knowledge to ourselves. Quanice gave the police a fictitious name. This was not the sign of a
suicidal teen. For him to bring a fake gun to an assault rifle fight, this is suicidal t. No, if you
believe the transcript, he came with a false name and a good pair of running shoes and opportunity
to get away. I wish you all would stop covering up for this murder. Let's use some common sense.
Quanice was not suffering from a mental crisis. He didn't bring a play gun to a shoot-out. He didn't
deserve to die. In several cases most ran from the police. For him to pull out a play gun seconds
before he died, he had to be suicidal. Please, hirsch shot my grant son because he shouldn't be a
cop. Why do police have to have a different standard of guilt than a citizen? If I shot one of my -- if
I shot someone, my grand jury hearing would not contain me or my lawyer. But when it is the
police, they can come, in fact they are thanked for coming. Their lawyers, the union is present. Two
different standards. God for bid to embarrass one of the union the union is down your throat. But
you can take my grandson and drag him through the mud, calling a kid a grown man, a drug addict.
Hirsch is a grown man and maybe a drug addict. We don't know because no one checked y. Wasn't
he checked? Quanice was. What makes hirsch so special after two shootings no one checked to see
if drugs was present in his system. With the police coverup how do we know what happened during
random drug testing? That's what they tell me they do random drug testing. They don't tell the
truth. This is something that should be done by a community organization, some group like cop
watch. Now, that is an accountability. Okay? I'm here looking for your heart. For help. Not the ceo
of Portland, city of Portland, not the legal side, but the protector of the city. Not just the police
commissioner but the head of the city. I mentioned this once. I wouldn't want to be in your place. I
wouldn't want to walk into an office left by hell, a man who didn't care how he left the city or the
people of the city. If he cared, that unpopular police contract wouldn't exist. God only knows the
horrors he left you. Stepping into an office and less than a month later two officer involved
shootings. No, I wouldn't want your job. You chose this job because our governor was scared. You
would run against her. Since you have this job, voted in by the citizens of Portland, you have a duty
to us. Your job should go to the kids on his knees, the visitor with the afro terrorized by your
police, the homeless, the people being beat up, stabbed to the ground, arrested for protesting. My
personal favorite, want to be shot by a cop. These are your responsibility to the deceased and hurt
by your police bureau. You are the head of the police force. By being mayor and commissioner
remove the bad behind this. Stop giving them life and death choices. Giving them life and death to
who are capable. Give the life and death choices to people who are capable of this. Respect life. I

 believe andrew hirsch, a free murderer, is a danger to the city. Andrew hirsch was not invited to the
team or even sent. On page 486 of that grand jury transcript, "we saw the team of officers on the
south side of the road. Instead of being sent he just showed up. Came prepared with a lethal
weapon. He stated his role and responsibility was the lethal role. No, it was not. He just showed up.
Nowhere in the transcript was he asked to assume that role. Again, he just showed up. Now as we
responsible people allow andrew hirsch to carry an assault rifle again when he was in the situation
four years ago. The man grew up in one of the most racist states in america, idaho. This place is
known for harboring a neo-nazi compound this. Place also experienced religious bigotry. Did
anyone check his credentials? Do you have a plan set in place to check for bigotry or is this a plus
in this white topia? He stated he went to a bible college. Isn't he in the wrong field? For real he says
he went through a lot of training, again, for real? Mike marshman can sign off, why can't andrew?
This person said he went through acit. This is enhanced crisis intervention. It involves mental
illness or behavior help. My grandson had to be expressing mental health issues in order to, by the
transcript, pull a play gun and go up against an assault rifle. This person was a part of the
neighborhood response team. Their job according to him was to help the neighborhood with
chronic nuisance issues and liveability concerns. I guess my grandson was on that concern. Another
thing that stands out in his training for his assault rifle, four years ago he carried an ar-15, shot five
times and missed. Mr. Hatch was a moving target and he didn't account for moving target. Now the
training division requested more training. I guess it's training paid off. Because according to him
quanice was a moving target reaching for a gun. I ask that police officer was this an ar-15 he was
carrying? He walked away as if I wasn't talking to him. Just walked away. I was invisible to him.
Keep in mind the building he was walking out of, the name was community policing. Am I not part
of the community? Did not my question deserve an answer? Because it seemed he would rather
shoot me than answer my question. This is the way he made me feel. I find it so hard to believe
quanice was reaching for anything in his waistband or pockets. We are a black family. We have
talks about what to do if you're stopped by a police. My four-year-old grandson over there can tell
you what to do if he is stopped by a police. Here's another history lesson for your benefit. Martin
luther king was assassinated. All over the country cities were set on fire. Don't let this happen to
this city. Know this is war. It's only a matter of time before your citizens say enough is enough.
Truly, your tourism and the people moving here will stop. Really I left chicago because it was a
messy city. This us is a messy city too but everything right now is kept as a dirty little secret. How
long will you be able to keep the dirty -- the secret of police killing citizens. Also hurricane-force
winds ring their rights. Hear our voices. Make change. Let the city take the necessary steps to be
really beautiful. What is the independent review board? From what I read and my visit there they
are a waste of city resources. They like power. They make recommendations and is ignored. For
example they recommended the 48 hour rule and state in the beginning who is in charge? Truly if
someone was in charge they would have stopped hurst from being a lethal weapon. Not once did I
read was somebody in charge. Nobody told him to give the lethal weapon. And the 48 hour rule
like I say gave him an opportunity to get his lie correct. The compliance officer and the city liaison
report for the third and fourth quarter of 2016 stated that use of force was in partial compliance
which states the city police force need additional work. My grandson's murder is an example of
how much work is needed. For all who don't understand this report, it is the required resolution
from the federal government stepping in when hurst and his two fraternity brothers in blue decided
to shot mr. Hatch while aiming at a telephone receiver at them. It also speaks of training about the
use of force again. Partial compliance. Who would have guessed. And again this raises questions
about the independent review board suggestion. I watched Portland for the 19 years I have been
here, and I have not seen it rectify its mistakes. One of your first acts was to make initial
assignments of city departments known as bureaus. The five commissioners of which you assigned
yourself the Portland police bureau. As police commissioner, what will you do about our family

 aftermath? Right after quanice' murder I found a close knit family fought and argue over what steps
to take next because we just didn't know what to do. We should have pain together but we drew
apart, where we should have stood together we walked away. The city took a loving, proud family
and buried them with quanice. We talk to him with tears. We have to repeat to e four-year-old and
three-year-old that the hero is not coming back. Will never know a quanice. Only a quanice through
pictures and us talking. These will be sad stories. Let me speak for me. How I live. Every time I see
some devastating parents looking back over their child's life, I cry. [crying] every time I see my
daughter sitting with a blank stare on her beautiful face, I cry. When I walk to another person still
trying to live with no hope for revolution for the death of their loved one I cry. When I am -- see a
video of a person killed, beaten, mauled by a k-9, I cry. I keep a picture of moose on my phone and
sometimes I look at it and I cry. I miss him terribly in my heart. I watch him come into the world. I
watched that baby being born. I was right there. Catcher's mitt ready for that baby to come into the
world and I cry for that. That was a happy cry. I watched my daughter cry over the life she brought
into the world and cry not only for me but for her. I believe that I will be crying forever. My heart
hurts for my family and everyone that has suffered at the hands of our military in blue. What are we
supposed to do if we run across hurst? That's a scary thought for me and my family. We live in the
east precinct. We have never been comfortable with the police. Now it's even worse. What are we
supposed do now that the city has swept quanice under a rug? How are we supposed to live?
Quanice lost and no real justice. Mayor, what are we supposed to do? Aren't we a part of this city?
Aren't we a part of the message that you as our elected official is supposed to take care of? Where
is our help? We must be -- why must we be the complex part of society? Why do we have to live
with the unfairness? Step up, sir. Do your job. Keep your word. Let this be a peaceful resolution to
the war. Again, i'm looking toker heart for help, not the corporation side but the protector of the
city, not the police commissioner, only the head of all. I mentioned this once. I will not want to be
in your place. I wouldn't want to walk into your office left by hales, who did not care. I wouldn't
want to see the horrors hidden behind the beauties of the city. Stepping into an office one month
later and police involved shooting. And by a racist serial killer. Oh, see what goes on in the city. I
see what goes on in the city, council, the lack of respect. The accountability your constituents hold
you to. I don't want your job that I had to step up because we are at war. I don't want to be in
everyone's office talking about my heart and the things I have read. It is so trying. Going to bed
early or falling asleep in a chair, this is not how I see my life but we are at war. The dead need a
spokesperson. I assure you, mayor, this is a war. I know you didn't start or will be able to end this
war. The city has become the way when it comes to the fullest contract. You can place certain
positions on this civil roles. You have the power to execute rights with a level of service. Method
of service. You can hire, lay off, transfer, promo, discipline or discharge an officer. I read the
contract. If you choose not to fire hurst, sit him at a desk and sends him to another precinct. There
is a clause for repeat cause. You have several cops that have fallen into that realm. Several cops
that have been repeat shooters. Somebody needs to do something about that. For accountability
after lethal force, do a psychological evaluation and make it public. We need to know, who is
actually protecting us? Is it some psychotic person? Do an immediate drug test also made public.
I'm not an island. In order to make change, we must collaborate. We must find common ground
whether we agree or disagree with each other's thoughts. I'm willing to work with you, mayor. I
hope you are willing to work with me. I will not stop. Quanice' murder should result in change.
Reform in the police department. Make some changes. Let the world see my city of choice, a city I
chose is standing in the right and standing up for its citizens. I really don't want this forgotten. This
is -- I don't want you to forget this is a war. People are fighting here and around this country. Cop
watch. Don't shoot Portland. Black panthers, brown beret. This is just a name, a small portion -this is just to name a small portion in your city. Mayor standing with the police bureau is a losing
battle. They have to change. Remember as a supporter of the constitution, the fifth amendment, no

 person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process. Terrell johnson, quanice
hayes, lost their lives without due process. No arrest. No trial. Their due process came from their
judge. Stand up for the framers that stood for -- stand up for the framers of the constitution. Please
pick a chief of police that will demonstrate the capacity, the commitment. These are your words.
Commitment to expand an existing strategy as well as create new ones to improve relationships
with the people of color who at present have no use for the police. That's a true statement. You
couldn't have said it no better. It's so true. You know there is racism here. I will give you an
example. Four shots. Two lived. A white man, a dog. Two died. Both black. The union wants to
highlight or acknowledge the hard work. The dedication. The professionalism and integrity of the
police department. I will highlight it for them. I acknowledge that they are dedicated to themselves
at wiping out people of color. They show me their professionalism when they won't answer a
simple question. Or act like you don't exist. Integrity is something I have not seen, especially with
the secrets they keep from my family and the world doing their mock investigation. I have saved
the hard words for last. From where I stand I see only fear for that is what they use to kill a citizen.
As I read that article I wanted to vomit. Please don't let those bigots dictate how you run your city.
The people are tired. Please remember the civil rights era. Don't let Portland burn. Be a part of
history. Know just don't not just repeating history. I hope you really see the injustice or do you like
hearing your own voice? Allow me to end with observation. What I asked is obtainable. I have not
just come here just to whine and complain. I think you should know where the shooting by hurst
put a family and the consequences of that action. I'm looking for change. Mr. Bill back east created
a slogan after the police murder of his son. It says when police kill, should they judge themselves.
Now, that is a question for you. I hope you will be able to answer that. Wisconsin is the first state
in the nation to mandate on the legislative level that if an officer was involved with a loss of life
that outside investigators should come in and collect the data and then investigate the shooting.
They shouldn't do this. They are friends. The police here are friends. They stick together. They lie
together. They shouldn't investigate each other. You allow officers that work with hurst, maybe his
friends, to investigate him. This city wants transparent investigation. I want a transparent
investigation. If the officer did everything right, show everybody. I do recognize officers risk their
lives but do they all? Do they make judgment calls that end lives unnecessarily? Change needs to
happen. Men of color are in extreme danger. This is my nephew. He is in danger. We have a
problem with training. Racism that put all in danger. How about anti-racism training? So your cops
stop carving certain ethnicities to help break down some common assumption because there are
some common assumptions. They look at him and the first thing come out their mouth he ain't got
no driver's license. That's a common assumption. I read the book. I don't have a driver's license. I'm
smart. Some sort of deescalation training. This might have saved moose' life. If somebody had just
taken the time to see if that boy was coming. [audio not understandable] this would aid in a
peaceful resolution. Not always resulting in death. Let lethal force be a last result. This is now my
personal favorite. Demilitarize policing. Did you see all the military equipment on the grounds in
ferguson? Did anyone see that? Your police practice chemical warfare. I watched them with teargas
on their backs. That's chemical warfare against citizens. Your community policing doesn't work.
You know why? Because the community isn't important. The community is the enemy. My last
question, I would like an answer. Do hurst live in the east precinct? I do. If he doesn't he shouldn't
work there. Please make your transition to the governsance easy. You can make it there. You can.
You have the heart. You have the drive. And I would vote for you. Mandatory body cams. That's
something mandatory. If it's tampered with, make an option jail or dismissal because they do
tamper with them because they don't want you to know what they just did. Finally put cameras in
all the transporting vans. People being transported need some form of security. I have presented my
case. Thank you. I would just like to add one more thing. For two years salt lake city has not killed

 anybody. Look at what they are doing. There are cities and states all over this country are making a
change. Come on, Portland, let's make that change with them. Thank you.
Wheeler: Thank you. [applause] my mother want to come up. What you got to say, adonnis? Come
up close.
*****: I miss my brother. And -*****: That was his hero. That was his hero. This boy actually quanice used to protect him from
me. I get mad at him, quanice was being the hero. I had to check quanice, pay attention. I'm his
grandma. I'm not going to kill him, but that was his protector. Okay. Thank you. Adonis hayes, for
the record.
*****: My name is sylvia dollarson. I'm quanice's great-grandmother. I need to tell you how I felt
burying my great grandson. It hurts. It still hurts. I was angry, and I was hurt. I've gotten rid of
some of the anger but i'm still hurt. They killed my great grandson. Now, I want you to think about
something. I'm on my knees. I'm 17 years old with baggy pants. I'm on my knees. One hand up.
One hand trying to hold them baggy pants up. What danger am I to you that would make you shoot
me? What danger? I was on my knees trying to pull up my baggy pants with one hand up. I was a
danger to the police officers? Why didn't the others pull their guns? There needs to be a change.
They had a demonstration downtown at quanice's burial. I wanted to go out in the street but the
police had injured all the ladies. Young men stopped me from going. They stood me on the
sidewalk and held out their hands in front move like this. A policeman came up, grabbed, snatched
the young man off the sidewalk, handcuffed him and arrested him. I found out his name and I went
to go to court with him. Got to the court, nothing. Everything dropped. But why did they arrest him
in the first place? I don't understand. Why is it my family get together nearly every holiday make
bags of candy. They take it downtown and pass it out to the homeless. Why did the police find it
necessary this last time we did it around easter to follow us all around downtown? Why? I would
like to know why. I would like to know what do you plan on doing. I still got great grandsons. I got
grandsons. I don't want to live through another death like I just went through. It hurts. It hurts too
bad. Please, do something about it. What my daughter said, I trusted you, and I voted for you. Do
something. Change this police boss. Get some people who care about people. If they are going to
protect us they have to care about us also. Give them psych evaluations. See what they are prone to
do. Do something, mayor. Please. Thank you.
Wheeler: Thank you. [applause]
*****: Terrance hayes. This is our cousin.
*****: Thank you. I'm terrance hayes. It's a pleasure to be here. My aunt invited me. I don't to be
honest think you all are going to do anything. I think it's easy for your you all to being in y'all
position. I think some of you all sincerely care and some of you really don't. That's your particular
light. I don't really care to judge who you is inside. That's a particular -- that's your raising,
background, whatever. That's not on me to judge but you do have a responsibility to the people of
the city and that our family do have a right to judge and the city has a right to judge. No matter
what, this commission has to be serious about the fact that there is a problem. There's always this
misconception that when a family do something like this we think all police officers is evil and
everyone has an agenda against us. That's not what my family is saying. What we're sighing is there
is a particular atrocity that happened to us and because that happened to us we became more aware
of the fact that many families is going to through same thing and particularly within the city. There
are police officers that go to work every day that love this city and love the people and there's
police officers that don't. There are citizens that wake up and work hard every day. Then there's
people like I was as a young man that was selfish and conceited and did violence towards others. I
was punished for my offense to the city. Part of my indictment was I committed an offense to the
peace of Portland. Of this city. It is interesting that police officers are wrecking the peace of this
city and there's no accountability to that. That is what the city, that's what the people was lamenting

 about. There seems to be this idea because we're saying there's a need for change we believe
everybody has the problem. No, we believe that a particular system has existing and because that
system has worked for so many years that that system is oppressive at times. I'm an electrician
now. I got my trade during my incarceration. I was bless there were people that cared about me
coming home and succeeded, but the truth of the matter is my style as an electrician is reflected by
the journeyman who taught me. You become an apprentice of somebody you take on their traits
and attributes like a disciple does. What we're saying is after hundreds of years of slavery, after
hundreds of years of jim crow laws, after hundreds of years of segregation there is a system that
aha existed and that sometimes people are oppressed in the system that they don't even know that
they are because they are taken the traits of people that came before them. We are saying that this
commission has an obligation to deal with the enact it is a system that is part of the problem. When
we talk about Portland police officers we're talking about people who have been apprenticed by
people before them and nobody can sit and argue that in the last two or 300 years that our particular
culture has been affected by an oppressive system. When we challenge you all to attack the system
because people have been told through generations that there's a problem, the police force
generationly has been a problem to the african-american community, we're not saying that we have
not committed crimes. People have. But there's just as many white americans as is black americans
incarcerated but white americans don't face the same fear when they are pulled over in their
vehicles that I do. Not because every police officer is a danger to me, but because they are the
particular system that exists that is dangerous to me. That's what we're saying. That's what i'm
saying. I'm saying it's time to say if the system, if the same union have protected the sam
oppressive system then at some point we have to counter balance that. That's the challenge to the
mayor and commission. What are we going to do to counter balance a system that has some issues.
Not that it hasn't done better. Not that it hasn't tried, but there are some issues, and what we're
saying is when are we going to be serious about the enact if a police officer who hated minorities
called another police officer to hate minorities and may not say hate minorities but when I trained
you I taught you to deal with minorities in a different way i'm planting things in you that you may
not know about. I'm not saying that every cop who deals with me is racist. I'm saying the system
that taught him is definitely racist. [applause] this is a challenge. This is a challenge I believe for
the city of Portland. Is that not only is racism an issue, classism is an issue. The poor, oppressed
generally is treated differently in their particular communities. This is what my aunt used to say,
where does he live? Not because you have to live in my community to work there but when you
live in my community and work there you deal with the people differently because you understand
the people. What we're saying is that all of -- oliver hurst clearly does not believe every Portlander,
every Portlander is not an offense to him. He sees civilians that he comes in contact with as his
enemies the moment he comes in contact with them and that's a problem. Because he is supposed to
be serving the people of this community. At some point we have to begin to say, how many
Portlanders with no weapons, no guns, for Portland to have a choice of evils law. You can do no
hurt to a person than the perceived danger they bring to you. If we're fighting and I have a per sieve
to kill you you cannot kill me. That's how the law is set up to protect if citizens from extreme
consequences of minor offenses. Our police force needs to have the same accountability. You being
tired, angry, having this perceived fear is not just fix for murder. The police force is allowed their
fears. It's just fix for doing unlawful things. There was not a violent weapon in quanice's
possession. It was a perceived violence. Because the violence were perceived his actions was
justified. No other civilian, no other citizen -- police, everybody say I understand their lives are in
danger. Everybody's life is in danger every day because there are violent people who might put
your life in danger. Our country, our community. There are people who constantly are doing
violent things to americans. They are labeled terrorists. Yet the police force can continue to shoot
unarmed people in Portland and they are labeled as servants to the people. They should be

 demonized and held accountability in the same way if anybody walked up to you, mayor, and did
something harmful to you and they said, well, I thought you were going to punch me, mayor. Are
you going to say, well, because you thought you're in danger then you should be given a pass for
your offense? No. Perceived danger is not just fix for harming me. Police officers have been given
the right because of perceived fear to do horrendous things. At some point that has to change. Your
perceived fear, you're human. You have fear. I'm 33 years old and sometimes when i'm at work in a
factory walking around by myself I have perceived fears that that creek was something dangerous
when it was just the wind blowing the door open. It's my perceived fear just fix for bad actions?
No? Police officers have that right. Not only have the city do not holding them accountable when
they empower union have allowed them to have this right that perceived fear is just fix for harming
people in Portland. This is ultimately the issue. If quanice would have pulled out a gun and aimed it
towards police officers me and my family wouldn't be sitting here today. But nobody said that he
did. So how can you not say that your life was really in danger but the perceived fear was enough?
That's the problem. What we're saying is that has to change. That's why people at bus stops are
being put by police officers who say, well, we perceived that he was being a little aggressive.
Maybe because he was upset or he was expressive. Nobody holds the police accountable when they
yell at you because sometimes they have to be commanding. And they do. But if I hurt a police
officer because he yelled at me, then I would go to jail. But police officers are allowed to do this.
Perceived fear allows them to murder people. At some point that just has to change. That's why we
are here. Because if somebody would have attempted to hurt a police officer and they would have
protected themselves nobody would have been here. Nobody would be screaming and yelling
injustice but they haven't and that's the problem. [applause]
*****: I'm bella aguilar. Quanice was my boyfriend. I wrote an essay for my college class about
quanice. I want to read it. Long and covered his deep brown eyes and the blond was fading. His
skin was dark, the darkest skin I have ever seen. [shouting] his skin was dark, the darkest I have
ever seen. It was flawless. No marks. He stood about eight inches taller than I was when I hugged
him and his chin rested on my head. He always smelled of soap and armani cologne, his favorite.
His arms fit perfectly around me and his hand fit perfectly in mine. I was staring at his deep brown
eyes when he grabbed my arm and told me we were leaving. He was sick of security following us.
So I followed him and grabbed his hand while we walked. I was wearing sweats and his hoody and
my hair was a mess. I felt like a bum while he looked flawless as always. The cold air hit my face
and I he put my hood over my messy hair. I smiled and kissed him on the cheek. He always knew
what I needed all the time without me having to say anything. Security followed us outside so he
got mad. He told me to keep walking but I stood right there being stubborn as usual. He turned
around and so did i. He asked why security was following us. Did they have a reason or were they
just being ass holes. They didn't say anything so he walked away and grabbed me before I could
say something rude to them. He knew me too well. He walked toward me trying to act like he
wasn't mad but I know that face with his pursed lips and nose turned the wrong way. The store
made him leave before he barely walked in. He tried not to let things like this get to him but I could
tell he was frustrated. He knew the only way he got treated like this was the color of hi skin. He
had had enough of it but there was nothing he could do about it. He used to tell me he would make
sure his kids didn't have to feel like this and that he would do anything to make sure of that but in
that moment I could tell he felt helpless. There was knowing he could possibly do to change how
people treated him because of his skin color. He never got upset over things like that but I couldn't
blame him. All I could do was help him feel better about himself and tell him things were going to
get better but things didn't get better. They got worse. It became a daily thing about store security
following him and being denied even to go into some stores. So the racism in this country killed
him. Literally killed him. And he killed him for matching a description. The Portland police blamed
quanice on the crimes committed in the area and the officer got away what it because he was scared

 for his life and his coworkers. He was simply pulling up his pants because everyone knows he sags
his pants. I'll never forget that morning, that first day without q. I woke up confused because he
wasn't in bed with me like usual. My head hurt and hi scrapes on my arms from what I wasn't quite
sure. I called his phone to find it on the night stand next to the bed and had this sick feeling in my
stomach that something was really wrong and now I hate myself for ignoring that feeling. I figured
if he wasn't back by the time I got back from my brother's court I would start worrying because he
would get mad if I worried too quickly. When I got back he was still gone. I still couldn't tell you
why that's the moment I first cried, but it was. My brother tagged me a post a few minutes later
after getting off the phone with me and I read the article and it said teen killed by police
pronounced dead at the scene. It was right down the street from where we were. It wasn't q, though,
it couldn't be him. He was okay. I called his mom. When she didn't reply I called every hospital in
Portland asking about the police shooting if the victim was there. They couldn't give me a name. I
wouldn't believe it was him. When mom called me and told me my uncle was coming to get me
that's when I realized it was quanice. My best friend, the love of my life, the person I spent my
entire life with was gone. Racism still existed and I knew that but I never thought it would kill the
love of my life. [crying]
*****: Thank you.
*****: I'm evelyn murray. I was invited here to speak on behalf of moose, like his grandmother
said, that is the name that those that spent time with moose knew him. The only time I knew his
real name, honestly, was when I was reading it in the up in. I didn't read the up in for a while
because everybody was telling me about the young man that was killed. Because I haven't been
around moose for a knew years. The way I met him I use the to go out and hide in gresham on his
grandmother's couch to get away from my grown children so I could have a break. I have six girls
and two boys. From a family of 12 brothers and four sisters, and I grew up in georgia. I guess I
have to say thank you for having me here and listening. The one i'm really talking to here today is
not you guys. You guys are not the sovereign lord jehovah and you don't make the final decision.
But nick Fish, I remember one time you told me, i'll have you know I was a civil rights lawyer. I
said to myself what does that have to do with tea in china? What are you doing now? I have had
principals tell me I marched with martin luther king. I had to ask my kids to leave the room. I said
is it all right if I customer the principal out? I told him what the f has that got to do with now? What
are you doing now. What have you done for black people lately? Okay? This is why i'm here with
you guys and amanda Fritz, I read your history. When tressa rayford ran against you I knew
nothing about you. I'm the type of person I don't vote for somebody because they are the same
color skin as me. I want a person that's just but I found that you were a mental health psychiatrist.
Psychiatric nurse. I said, my goodness, she understands what we're going through. And when donna
told me you the one that helped come today to talk about this issue, I want to be brief. One of the
things -- one of the things I want to talk about today is that you, especially you, mayor, because I
have learned that the head that wears the crown is always shaky and you are the head of the police
department. Every city the mayor controls the police department. Then the chief of police, you
really need to get one, and i'm thinking about running for police chief, okay? Seriously. [laughter]
because I heard a police chief does not have to be a police officer. Okay? So we need to be brave
enough to start a conversation about things that matter. And here it is 400 whatever many years
later, and every since lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation, white people, the slave master,
children, that's who you guys are, your ancestors coming from europe, things are changing. There's
a winds that's going to be blowing from the south and I don't know if you know about farming but
when the wind starts blowing from the south, that is a bad omen. Okay? One of the things I want to
do is you don't want to have what happened here. My daughter said, mom, what if somebody killed
one of my babies? She said i'm not going to be nice like pete said. I don't want to do nice. We get
tired of doing nice and being nice. I read this list. It's called the eight stages of genocide. It talked

 about genocide is a process that developed in eight stages that are predictable but not exonerable. In
each stage it's preventable if measures are taken to stop it and that's what this meeting is about
today. The measures that you need to take to stop it. Somebody like my daughter said I thought
about that. I said, love, what am I going to do? I'm a jehovah's witness. I'm supposed to put on a
spiritual suit of armor and draw close to god, but you know what I told the brothers at the kingdom
hall? Pete her a sword. If he had been here today peter would have had whatever gun that police
officer that shot moose with. Okay? Jesus told peter to stand down because this is not my world. If
this was my world, I could call down legions of angels and it wouldn't be a one-sided war. Have
you seen what hurricane andrew did in florida? Okay. It looked like somebody put the whole
community through a paper shredder. The next storm after that was hurricane katrina. We haven't
had a riot of black people in years. And if you guys don't do something eventually we're going to
have to do something and it will start when you gun down one of my babies. Moose was one of my
babies. Moose loved -- he say you gonna cook? You gonna cook? I fed this young boy. This young
boy used to get up at 5:00 in the morning to catch the max to come into Portland to go to school.
Because he was part of the gentrification sent out in east county to be forgotten. You guys don't
know moose. Moose was happy. 5:00 every morning, catching the max. Why? Because he couldn't
go to school in east county. In? On one end of the hall he was a jigger, and on the other end of the
hall he was an nigger. He would cool home crying and his uncle, who has passed away from a
brain aneurysm, and they talked to moose and they say, moose, you have to be tough. You have to
bear up under it. I'm from georgia. The kkk used to come to my grandfather's yard. They know
better than to come in their regal costumes, sheets and hood, they knew better to let horses step in
my grandmother's yard. Georgia is one of the states that stand their ground. I had a gun when I was
16. I didn't have a permit. In georgia you don't have to have one. So you don't hear about things
happening in georgia, do you? Because it will be a shoot-out at the okay corral. My grandfather
was worse than the black panthers were in california. So I grew up with a gun. Don't have me pick
one up. I'm a marks woman. You can make a movie, I could be a sniper on top of the garage. I'm
not threatening you. I'm promising all of you. I almost died on the operating table. I had an
aneurysm that ruptured. I had two heart attacks on the table. Both kidneys shut down. They hooked
me up to life support to finish the surgery and I can't believe moose is not here. I just can't believe
it. What do you want? You better ask yourself that and hold your head and say, if this is serious,
this is so serious, like the grandma said, I would not want to be in your shoes. So i'm going to have
to let the mike go because they keep tapping me. I can't do the eight steps of genocide but I wish
that everybody would google it. Okay? Because it talks about classification. Assimilization,
dehumanization, preparation, extermination. The final one is denial. You go back and keep denying
something, okay? Okay? You cannot -- this is too much right now the united nations I heard about
the united states walking out on the racism conference in 2001. They walked out nine times in a
row. 12 now. 16 really. Okay. I'm going to go. And -- okay. Okay. 30 seconds. It's time for us to
take our children off the pipeline to prison it means we need to pull our kids out of public school.
You guys are not protecting our children. And it's time for us to file a class act suit against the city
of Portland, Portland public schools is the largest in the district. The board of education of Oregon.
Okay. She said I had to be dragged out. I have already started a class act suit signature to start a
petition and i'm asking everyone here to put their names on it and sign it. Thank you.
Wheeler: Thank you.
*****: She's going to read something from somebody else because they cannot come.
*****: I'm judy lewis. I have something to say beforehand. Quanice was a beautiful soul and he
will not be forgotten. The moose movement will stand no matter who tries to shut it down. We will
continue to fight for what we believe in and for the justice for quanice because he was silenced and
that wasn't fair. He had no way to stand up for himself. But I also have something to read from
pamela rogers, who couldn't be here today. Where, oh, where, has the reason gone? Reason is

 judgment's ability to collect information. Weighing possibility and calculate with accuracy. Where
has reason gone? If we're going to give officers the ability to use their own judgment to shoot and
kill we have to be sure they have the ability to have sound reason with accuracy. Every man,
woman and child depends on these officers' ability to have some reason with accuracy in high
pressure situations. What law ordinances or statute states an officer hat right to shoot and kill an
unarmed man? If there be no such law ordinance or statute that gives him the right then may I ask
where are these officers getting their information from that they can shoot and kill unarmed people,
especially people of color. Are these officers getting their information from their own belief in
from their environment? The belief that or I believe that it is imperative that we should know the
answer to these types of questions before we give them a badge, a uniform, a gun and authority to
shoot. Thank you. With no fear of or concern of prosecution we need to get some sort of protocol
of psychology testing that looks specifically at a potential officer's ability to have sound reason
with accuracy and that they have balance in their conclusions. Our officers need to understand they
serve and protect justice and are to deal with the public with a just and balanced hand. According to
the standard set by the integrity of true justice. It has its own standard and integrity. Those who
serve and protect it must adhere to justice standards. No man is above true justice. This was written
on behalf of quanice hayes by pamela rogers.
Wheeler: Thank you. [applause]
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*****: I'm a fourth generation Oregonian. Also, for the record, i'm thankful that amanda and chloe
gave us the opportunity to bring our family in here. And I don't want to say our children are issues,
the conduct of the police force is the issue. I want to just -- for the record -- say that today is mack
tay day. He was my cousin and killed by the Portland police, as well. I have several cousins that
were killed by the Portland police. I want this child's generation not to have to fight against the
same abuse of power we're fighting against. Somebody needs to leave my mike alone, i'll talk loud.
It's not fair. It's not fair. We're looking at -- you guys look stiff to me and I know that your heart's
working. I know you have a consciousness. You've used the violence against us. You hurt us. You
used military weapons against us. You use chemicals against us. You use the proper opportunity to
use media against us to criminalize us and make our voices unjust. You humiliate us. You
humiliate us that our families are ashamed of us and kids in our family don't know that they matter.
It's embarrassing and it's a shame. With the babies in front of the police station across the street
from the boys and girls club, they shuffled the kids through the back door. We've talked about
malcolm x being a teacher and a leader and our families matter and our babies matter. They
shuffled them through the door and they took the babies in the back because we were saying "black
lives matter." they say, we know black lives matter. But the boys and girls club and all the police
and all the teachers and every one else that propagates, that stands next to you because they are
appointed or when they act like black lives matter, but they don't speak about us and they don't
speak about us and they put their nose in the air. That's not the truth. This child is the truth. His
grandma's the truth. His little sister's the truth. [audio not understandable] [crying] what you all did
to us on the street on the day that we buried that baby, that can never happen again. That happened.
It can never happen again. You took away from the family dignity. You took the family's dignity
away from them. [audio not understandable] humiliate them even more. The videos are out there.
They're still humiliating them. You took away someone's life systemically because you propagated
the fear of black people. We know how it happens. If you tell somebody there's something to be
afraid of and they put more money into a budget for them, not us. You can't use us that way. We're

 humans. When our babies die, we cry. When we say that we have a problem with somebody that is
a leader -- we're not trying to be vindictive when we come into this room, as I have since 2010,
when my nephew was murdered. I'm not coming here because i'm bored. I'm coming here because
his life matters. [applause]
*****: Hi. I wanted to pull some questions for you guys from a black mother. I have a 9-year-old
and a 10-year-old little black boy. You guys will never understand the anxiety of simple stuff like
your babies playing outside. You know, having to come in contact with the police. Since the stuff
happened with quanice, we have been in the grocery store and saw a 9 or 10-year-old little boy
being targeted by white employees, being accused of stealing when he had a receipt in his hand.
Like they said earlier, for police, working in the urban community that they're not familiar with,
they are going to behave in a way that's different as if they had grew up in that community because
they social with us, they understand our culture, how we dress, how we talk. They won't be afraid
of certain things because they've experienced certain things. My 10-year-old wanted to be a police
officer. We always encouraged him, that's a great occupation. It's something we encouraged him to
do. He doesn't want to be a police officer anymore. What do we tell our sons when they encounter
problems at school, in their neighborhood? We have a real fear of telling our black boys to call the
police because for them calling the police, over a simple altercation, over somebody hitting them or
punching them, we can't tell them to defend themselves because you'll put them in prison. There's
no consequences for that. Where does that leave our kids? Everyone's talking about they're tired of
black people killing black people and taking things into their own hands? But what do we do?
There's nobody to take up for us. It's nothing like wondering and losing a cousin, somebody -- i've
known quanice since he was 3 years old. When they say he was alive, he was alive. He was full of
life. He was an awesome kid.
*****: Yes, he was.
*****: I went to school for education. I've been working with kids since I was 13 and when I found
out what happened to quanice, there's nothing in my mind could ever make me picture quanice as a
threat to anybody. And i've worked with kids who i've been like, oh, they're going to be a problem,
in all different cultures. And so, it's easy to sit here and talk to you guys and everybody pour their
hearts out and try to get you to try to understand. You can't understand. You'll never have to close
your eyes and your kids will never be at a party and you'll never have to worry about if some white
police officer is going to shoot your son in the head with cause they got a call about a noise
disturbance. That police officer would immediately be fired, thrown in prison if he was to kill one
of your children for a perceived threat when they're constantly kills our sons, our doctors, our
lawyers, our police officers, they're murdering them in the streets before they even get a chance.
Most people, as teenagers, make mistakes. Nobody knows what happened leading up to what
happened to quanice because he was murdered. And the sad part about it is, because nobody across
the nation seems to be taking any accountability, it's going to continue to happen to our little black
boys because we can say we care. We can say we love. But those things are actions. When you care
and love, it's displayed by how you treat other people and the reform you see in your community
and I don't see that anywhere. [applause]
*****: Thank you.
*****: Thank you. [applause]
*****: I'm quanice's favorite uncle. I wasn't going to say anything. I know when I drive -- I get off
work at 1:00 in the morning. I live in milwaukie and I get so nervous about getting pulled over for
no reason. They see me, follow me, pow. And then decide to pull me over once they feel i'm at my
destination. Like you know, he's home or whatever. But they follow me because I was racially
profiled. Now, when they stop me and they question me, ask me what am I doing, which house -nothing to do with a traffic stop. Nothing. They should come to me -- he'll ask you for your license
and your insurance, you'll ask him what you did wrong and he'll tell you. I ask him what I did

 wrong, he doesn't tell me. He never gives me a ticket or nothing. He just wanted to see what I was
doing because I was a black man at the wrong time of night. And they see me as a gang member
because i'm young, black. When your police officers are the real gang members. [applause] I get
home. I like to sit down and watch the crime shows, not the fake ones like csi, the real stuff,
forensic files. And there's only two outcomes, life without or the death penalty. I never seen that
happen to a cop. Ever. Ever happen. And, my meter's running out so that's all I have to say.
[applause]
*****: My name is catherine kendall, i'm a retired college professor and i'd like to begin, as I
always do, i'd like to know, by a show of hands, on your honor, how many of you have red the new
jim crow by michelle alexander? You all have not done your homework. Not one of you has read
this book? I am astonished. This book is a history of how we got to be how we are. I would like to
donate this book to you directly, ted wheeler, I would like you to do your homework. [applause] I
never met quanice hayes, except through the words of his mother and grandmother and his friends
and he is one of my children. I never met ted wheeler's daughter and she is one of my children. Dan
Saltzman says his focus is well-being of children so I figured dan, like me, knows we all need the
children. I am a biological mother, an adoptive mother, a grandmother and a great grandmother and
I raised my children as a single mother and I know poverty. I come to the mayor and the city
council to fight for those most vulnerable to abuse by the police, our black, brown and native
children. There is terror in Portland. The terror comes to us in a black uniform that looks like
something a robot would wear in a "transformers" movie. Terror is an army of massive black boots,
shin pads, knee pads, bulletproof vests, face shields, helmets, they carry pepper spray, guns, tear
gas and aimed at the fragile skulls of unarmed, undefended protestors and their children. Police
beat and kill our children and are rewarded with weeks, months or years of paid administrative
leave. They get a bonus for killing our children. They get time off to go to their children's sports
events and school concerts and graduations and weddings. Our dead children have no sports events,
concerts, graduations or weddings. The children of our dead children are worlds unborn and they
will always be unborn. We have a madman in the white house, a planet going up in flames, full of
violence and hatred, we need our unborn children to save the world with love and wisdom. But we
have failed them, every one of our dead children is a horrible, unforgivable failure. So here is my
recommendation, strip the Portland police of the military equipment, guns, tasers, riot gears,
grenades they use on us when we protest the deaths of our children. We are not an invading army.
We are the grieving families of murdered children. We are justifiable angry. We are demanding
justice from a government. We put our bodies and voices on the line because we have no weapons
and you meet us with militarized police. Tell the police not to terrorize our black children and our
anarchist children. Tell them, they are the violence in this society. If you cannot control the police,
then please give the bulletproof vests and shin guards and helmets and shields to our children.
[applause] i'm going to say the names of some of our children killed by police in Multnomah
county, where the mayor and the council have jurisdiction. I ask you to hear their names as if they
are your children's names and when I say their ages, be aware, they will never grow any older.
Terrell johnson, 24, two weeks ago. Quanice hayes, 17, two months ago. Darris johnson, arrested
and died in custody. Keaton otis, 25. Aaron campbell, 25. James perez, 28. Kendra james, 21. Jose,
29. And because I know his mother, christopher kalonji, 19, killed in clackamas county last year.
Here are the names of the perpetrators. Andrew hearst. Scott mccollister. Jeffrey bell, captain of
internal affairs. Ron freshour. Jim. Cody berne. Andrew polas. Christopher humphreys. Most are
still on the public payroll. In march when protestors set up a camp outside of ted wheeler's house,
the mayor was understandably protective of his daughter. We don't want any children to be
frightened. Pete simpson said, if you threaten someone and cause fear, harassment could be laid
against you. I say to tet wheeler and pete simpson, if you allow the police to threaten our children
and cause fear, if you menace our children, stock our children, harass our children, you plant the

 seeds of violence. If you kill our children, their blood and our grief is on your hands to the end of
days. I hope the police commissioner sees every death as a complete failure it is. Thank you.
Wheeler: Thank you. [applause]
*****: Red hamilton?
*****: I'll be quick. There's nothing that I can say that's going to -- I would just like to echo
everybody that's been testifying here. You guys need to make a change and I just want to say, it is
our duty to fight for our freedom.
*****: It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
*****: It is our duty to win.
*****: It is our duty to win.
*****: We must love each other and support each other.
*****: We have nothing to lose but our chains.
*****: One more time. It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
*****: It is our duty to win.
*****: We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
Thank you. For the record, red hamilton. [applause]
*****: If we could get a new united states of america flag in here, i'd really appreciate it. You've
been mayor for five months and you don't have a new flag in here and I appreciate if you use [audio
not understandable] to have your flags cleaned. Can't nobody see no stars and stripes. Thank you.
Wheeler: Thank you.
*****: Okay.
*****: So, I know these guys from church, the families. A lot of us black people grew up in the
same areas and whatnot. But, the day that quanice was killed was actually the day after my
birthday. And, I watched it on in news and my daughter and -- doesn't quanice have a sister? My
daughter's name is nevaeh, as well. I went to my aunt's how to ask for advice, I don't have a mom.
My cousin's birthday was february 9. I told her that her friend had got killed. He had just left their
house. This death affected all of us. As people. Caden was my friend, we went to school together.
The day that he was killed was -- it was -- it's one of those days you can remember for the rest of
your life. Me seeing my friend's picture on the news. I have a little son, too. He's actually biracial
and growing up thinking we were invincible until I watched my friend was shot, had 24 bullets in
him. They were pulling bullets out of his underpants. Three years after his son died, he died of a
heart attack, a broken heart. As a parent -- caden never had no gun. Correct me if i'm wrong, if they
ever produced a weapon. But he didn't have a gun. As a parent, not as a white person and a black
person, as a parent, it's our duty to make sure that the rest of our children's lives are protected. They
don't have to drive down the street and not be able to put their hoodie on because they are cold
because that was his crime. Having a hoodie on driving by lloyd center in a nice car. When your
daughter's of age to drive, you're going to give her the keys to your vehicle. You're going to teach
her how to drive so you would want to think your child is going to come home safe. I might not get
that opportunity with my son or my daughters. It's time -- you guys stepped up and made that
change. I was here on october 12 and we got beat up and kicked out of city hall. I kind of just
blended with the media. We are getting abused and beat up for saying, we matter, too. We're not
saying, you all don't matter. We're saying, we matter, too. We have watched so many of our friends
and family and relatives -- my brother is getting out, 84 days on a 15-year bit because the da
thought it was a funny thing to make him sit in the county so he could take the measure 11 charge
after measure 11 took effect. Stuff's got to change in Portland. I was born and raised here. My
grandma lived here. Vanport. We've been here, but we don't get respect like you guys get. We get
kicked out and told to shut up. I was just talking to the officers where a white man was told he
could tell us what he wanted because he had a first amendment right but we have to relocate.
[applause]

 *****: Irene calony. [audio not understandable] i'm here to testify. 16 years ago, we came to u.s.a.
Looking for better life for our family. It was myself, my husband and two boys. We came to u.s.a.,
believe that this country give us freedom and protection for our children. Children grew up and
nightmare started when my youngest son went to [audio not understandable] because he looks
suspicious for them. [audio not understandable] they want him show his i.d., but the same time,
they did not represent themselves. My son tells them they are not doing right and they don't have
reason, they don't have reason to stop him. I knew my rights, he say. That makes them mad. They
arrest him, beat him in the head. As a result, he has ptsd. On january 28, 2018, christopher has
appointed court date for this event. He was scared to go and as a result, he has a mental broke
down. 911 was called for help. This time, sheriff respond. Sitting on the window without clothes,
let him bleed to death in his room for four and a half hours. They destroy our apartment. They
destroy our family life and they get justified in their action. Protect and serve, their mission. And as
a mother, I want to know who they protect. Who they serve. Police continue to destroy our lives,
young people taken from us every year. And we are mother for justice demanding police reform
and indication [audio not understandable] cannot be justified in any form. And i'm speaking for all
the mothers and today, i'm christopher. I'm quanice hayes [audio not understandable] thank you.
[applause]
*****: It's a presentation by dan handelman of Portland copwatch.
*****: Good afternoon, mayor and members of city council, i'm dan handelman from Portland
copwatch. I wrote up information about Portland police shootings. Cop watch has supported
countless families who have lost their loved ones and we're here today to support the family of
quanice hayes. Quanice was the first african-american killed since keaton otis. The misbullet fired
at kevin moffett. Terrell johnson has been described as being of african-american heritage. Quanice
was 17 on his knees when they thought he was going for a weapon and had their sniper rifle.
Johnson was 24 and houseless. He allegedly displayed a utility knife and was killed. Over 10 year,
the Portland police have shot 22. Nine were african-american. Five of those were african-americans
or 23%. Including darris johnson of death in custody. 26% of those died were african-american.
Three other people were identified as people of color. 34% were people of color in a city that's 77%
right. We count six houseless persons who have been killed since 2010. It seems like a pattern of
overreacting to weapons far less threatening than firearms. The settlement agreement with the doj,
they put out quarterly reports. 30% of those subjective to use of force were african-american. This
is about average. The most recent data showed 13.5% of traffic stops were conducted against
african-americans. Pedestrian stops are down from 24% to 10%, but that information is likely
incomplete since it shows only 59 people total stopped on-foot over a three-month period.
Certainly, this doesn't include stop and talks, stop and frisks. The figure of whether drivers had
contraband shows african-americans were found to have drugs or weapons in 10% of searches and
whites were 31% of the time or three times more often. To violate the state law, banning police
profiling based on race, gender, housing status, an officer would have to say the only reason I
stopped that person was because he was black. It must be based solely on the -- the police rewrote
it. It needs to be changed. Two cars with broken tail lights go past a cop, one with a white driver
and one with a black driver and they only pull over the black driver, who can say that's not
profiling. Thank you very much. [applause]
*****: I would like to thank you all for the time and I hope we can all work together, to make
some changes. This city will not stand. You see right now, black people, white people, everybody
standing together for the same cause. This was not a blurred -- this is a blurred line. We're standing
for the same cause. This is your citizens out here, let's make some changes. Thank you. And, thank
you very much for sponsoring us.
Wheeler: Thank you for being here and again, we're sorry for your losses. [applause] [chanting]