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Pritchett Cartoon: Got my mind on a panda and panda on my mind

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Sports

In the late 1970s, the Miano family left their home in Brockton, Mass. without the family patriarch. 

While Richard Miano Sr. was incarcerated, his wife and three children moved to O‘ahu seeking a fresh start. Though he was a loving and involved father, the people he associated himself with eventually caught up to him. 

"We knew that he was involved with a lot of stuff," his son, Richard Jr., better known to the football world as Rich Miano, recently told Aloha State Daily when asked about his father. "I'm not sure we knew that he was gonna end up in jail, but we knew that it was a crazy lifestyle. I've witnessed things that nobody should see with their own eyes growing up. ... People shooting people, beating up people with golf clubs. All kinds of mayhem, based upon what he did for a living, which was own nightclubs and bars and his associations with mafia and everything else was just, yeah. It was problematic."

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"Born and raised, never moved. Rarely traveled. Had no idea what Polynesia was. Basically, we're in one of the most segregated parts of the country," Miano recalled. "Coming to Hawaii was like, 'whoa.' Being a minority and didn't know the culture, didn't know anything about Hawai‘i, it took two years to adjust."

Miano enrolled at Kaiser High School with just a handful of weeks remaining in his sophomore year. He took the occasional "haole" ribbing from classmates as he adjusted to a new locale. Homesick but realizing the family wasn't going back to Brockton, Miano eventually acclimated to his new environment. It helped that he lived with his best friend, younger brother Robert, and the two navigated their new lives together. 

As a junior at Kaiser, Rich Miano joined the swimming and diving team, and performed well as a diver, competing in the state tournament. But in an effort to make more friends at school, he decided to give football a try for his senior year. 

"I just wanted to be one of the boys," he recalled. 

Though he hadn't played the sport since he was a youth, Miano quickly readjusted back to the sport. Robert saw how much Rich had enjoyed being back on the gridiron and said he'd join him on the team soon. Richard Miano Sr. had also rejoined the family on the Islands after his release from prison. Things were looking up for the Miano family. 

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Robert and Rich Miano rode together to school one day. Robert told Rich he'd skip class to go to Spitting Cave but he'd be back to pick up Rich. He never returned. 

Rich Miano knew something was wrong when he never got picked up from school, but when he returned home to see countless heads slumped and in tears, he was given a piece of news he could've never fathomed prior to that point. Robert Miano passed away following an accident at Spitting Cave. He was 16 years old. 

"I just remember how sad it was for my parents and how tragic it was to realize that my best friend, my roommate, is no longer there," Miano recalled. "I just saw the anguish and just the hurt in my parents and my sister, myself, and realized that nothing worse could ever happen in life for your parents and just your whole family in general."

Before Rich Miano became an all-conference and honorable mention All-American defensive back at the University of Hawai‘i, and before his 11-year NFL career, he was just a kid who wanted to honor his brother. 

"I think that was the motivating factor in part of the success — the fact that you're now playing for your brother as well," Rich Miano said. "You're playing for your family. You're trying to keep focused in terms of what you're doing in life, because otherwise you're just thinking about being sad and not trying to make the most out of your life."

Despite coming from an era where maintaining a tough exterior was paramount, Rich Miano never shied away from the heartbreak. 

I don't care how tough you are, whether you're a football player or you're a member of the mafia or whatever. When a family member dies, I think that crying and all that other stuff, it's just part of life. We cried openly. We weep openly. Even the thought now, when I talk about it, I get choked up talking about my mom, my dad, my brother, and my sister," Miano said between sniffles. 

Miano enjoyed his one season of high school ball at Kaiser. More importantly, he itched to keep playing. He joined the University of Hawai‘i football team as a walk-on, wreaking havoc on the scout team. At the time, walk-ons were forbidden from eating with the rest of the team, per NCAA rules. 

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Miano, who also had to pay his way through school, worked valet at a local restaurant at nights and sometimes saw his teammates on scholarship come by and wave to him. "I'm busting my a** just to have $100 in my pocket," he says. 

Hawai‘i was Miano's only choice at the time as far as school and football were concerned. He didn't want to leave his parents so quickly after Robert's death. 

"The trajectory of my life changed because of that. I loved football, but I couldn't leave. I couldn't leave my mom and dad. I couldn't leave the state of Hawai‘i," Miano said.

Miano's first opportunity to earn meaningful playing time was during the 1983 season, a chance he did not squander. After leading the team in tackles and interceptions in 1983, he appeared on the radar of NFL scouts. He replicated his success in 1984, racking up a team-leading 110 tackles earning All-WAC and All-Coast selections for the second year in a row. He was selected in the sixth round of the 1985 NFL Draft by the New York Jets. His $30,000 signing bonus was a far cry from his valet days, and by the end of his rookie year, he purchased the first of his handful of O‘ahu homes. 

After stints with the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles, the final stop in Miano's 11-year NFL career was with the Atlanta Falcons, where he played for another former University of Hawai‘i player in head coach June Jones. Following his retirement, he returned to the Islands, where one of his jobs was as a radio broadcast analyst for UH football games. He watched from up top at 

 as the 1998 team suffered through an 0-12 season. 

When Jones got the UH job in 1999, he plucked Miano to coach the team's defensive secondary despite having no prior coaching experience at the collegiate level. In less than 10 years, the Warriors went from 0-12 to 1998 to a 12-0 regular season in 2007, led by one of Miano's all-time favorite recruits in quarterback Colt Brennan. 

"Colt was the best quarterback in the country. Colt could do everything, and if you looked at the film, every arm angle, every throw, there's no way that guy doesn't get $8 or $10 million in today's (NIL) market," Miano says. 

Jones departed for SMU following the 2008 Sugar Bowl and asked Miano to come with him to Dallas, but Miano's roots were already entrenched in Hawai‘i. Miano was elevated to associate head coach and stuck around in Mānoa through the 2011 season, departing when the school went in a different direction and hired Norm Chow ahead of the 2012 season. 

Miano returned to his high school alma mater, leading Kaiser to an HHSAA Division II title in 2013 before departing to pursue other ventures. 

Ever since he moved back to the Islands, Miano has been one of the go-to voices for anything and everything relating to Hawai‘i football. He's the color analyst during local broadcasts of UH football games. He's a regular on KHON2's Cover2, the state's only weekly show dedicated to high school football. In the same way Brennan was known to never turned down a picture or autograph from a fan, Miano has never turned down an interview request to discuss his passion for football in the Islands. 

Through his organization Hawai‘i Speed and Quickness, local athletes have earned thousands of dollars in scholarship money and other college opportunities. 

 in the KHON2 studio with the distinction of being named to the UH Circle of Honor for the Class of 2026. On Friday evening, he'll be one of five members officially inducted. 

"People ask me, 'Are you getting in as a player? You getting in as a coach? Are you getting in as a broadcaster?' I'll be honest. I don't know what I'm getting in as, but I'm proud of all three of those things. I'm proud of my affiliation with the University of Hawai‘i for the last 40-something years."

In recent years, Miano has lost both parents, as well as his sister, Karen. But his wife, Lori, and children Kupa‘a (born Richard III) and Siena will be there to celebrate his lasting impact on Hawai‘i football. 

Brockton and Honolulu are separated by over 5,000 miles, and there's no way teenage Rich Miano would have envisioned the life he built for himself in the Islands. Now 64, he's fully ingratiated himself to countless amounts of football players, coaches and fans across the state. 

Though his parents, sister and brother won't be there physically on Friday, Miano likes to think they'd be proud of the way he turned tragedy into triumph. 

"They would have never expected when we moved to Hawai‘i to be part of this community in such a big way," Miano said. "I do think they're still watching down from above, and they're proud. I think that I've I've reached my genetic potential in football. I don't know if I've reached my giving potential, but we certainly try, and we'll continue to try. So the more that comes our way, the more we can help other people. I always pray to them each and every day, and I hope that they are watching and they're proud."

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<title>Rich Miano overcomes personal tragedy en route to becoming Hawai‘i football staple</title>

Miano lost his only brother, Robert, before his senior season of high school football at Kaiser. It set him on a path to an 11-year NFL career and a reputation as an Island football legend that will be cemented with an induction into the UH Circle of Honor on Friday.

Rich Miano overcomes personal tragedy en route to becoming Hawai‘i football staple

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Michael Brestovansky

Crime & Courts

The Honolulu Police Department will shift 100 officers to patrol duties beginning November.

 announced Thursday that the department will move 100 officers from duties throughout HPD as a shift to get as many officers back on the road as possible.

“It means more officers on the road,” Lazar said. “It also means officers are available to respond when someone calls for help. It means we’re working to reduce response times and getting officers to those who need them sooner, and it ultimately means we can continue providing emergency police services without having to reduce our response capabilities.”

Lazar added that the move will also reduce overtime expenses. He said HPD’s overtime budget is about $6.8 million each quarter, but in the first quarter of 2026, that budget was exceeded by another $6 million.

“We just don’t have enough officers in patrol to do the work,” Lazar said. “We have beats, we have shift work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and so a lot of that overtime was spent to make sure that we have enough officers to do the work.”

The officers to be on patrol will be reallocated from throughout the department, from the chief’s office and the criminal investigations unit, to the traffic unit, training division, human resources, the narcotics and vice unit and more. Furthermore, where officers who finished field training would previously go to an additional training unit called “fourth watch,” they will now be put on patrol alongside another officer.

“Make no mistake, we still will investigate narcotics crimes,” Lazar said. “We’ll still go after gambling houses. We are still going to investigate every single type of crime that’s occurring.”

But while Lazar said the shift will not “sacrifice any ongoing investigation,” he also said that patrols are the primary focus for the time being, and investigations are secondary.

The shift does not have a specific end date. Lazar said the new state of affairs will continue for the time being as officer recruitment continues.

“There’s really no time limit on it, other than that we have to keep this in place until we have enough officers in patrol, and then we can start looking at … other elements that we need to refill again,” Lazar said.

But Lazar said officer recruitment is strong, with a class of 32 new recruits expected to graduate at the end of the month. Nonetheless, he said officer numbers are still some 200-300 short of the 2,177 officers the department is budgeted for.

The response from the rank-and-file is still unknown; Lazar said Thursday that he had informed the department as a whole about the change only about 15 minutes before the media were informed. Nonetheless, he said that “officers wanting to leave or retire [because of the change] have not crossed [his] mind.”

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi commended Lazar on his “flexibility [and] willingness to think differently,” and said his decision simultaneously addresses a financial challenge while improving public safety.

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<title>100 HPD officers to be reassigned to patrol</title>

Scores of officers will be reallocated to patrol duties next month, HPD Chief David Lazar announced Thursday.

100 HPD officers to be reassigned to patrol

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Kelli Shiroma Braiotta

Food & Dining

[{"type":"text","text":"There’s a new Mexican restaurant open in Honolulu."}]

 recently opened in Puck’s Alley, close to the University of Hawai

i at Mānoa. The restaurant’s original location is in ‘Ewa Beach.

The menu is the same as the one at the ‘Ewa Beach location. Customers can choose from tacos, quesadillas, burritos, birria dishes, enchiladas, nachos, chimichangas and more. There’s indoor seating, but the restaurant is popular for takeout.

Customers who dine in will receive complimentary chips and housemade salsa.

Speaking of chips — the eatery’s nachos are a popular appetizer. Choose from options like supreme nachos ($20.95) with carne asada and shrimp or Frida’s nachos ($19.95), which come with carne asada and chorizo.

Nachos usually come with toppings like sour cream, pico de gallo, guacamole, beans and cheese.

i offers a wide variety of burritos to choose from, including California burritos ($19.95), shrimp burritos ($21.95), and chile verde burrito plates ($22.95). The Diego grande ($23.95) is recommended for diners who want a little of everything, as this burrito is stuffed with carne asada, chicken, chorizo, rice, beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream and cheese. It’s topped with green and red enchilada sauces.

Meat choices for the eatery’s taco plates and burritos include carne asada, chicken, pork, pastor, chorizo, ground beef and more. Corn taco plates ($18.95) comprise three tacos with your choice of meat; tacos are topped with onions and cilantro, and are served with rice and beans.

More traditional dishes range from tamales with red enchilada sauce ($16.95) and chile relleno ($16.95) to Frida’s fajitas ($29.95). The latter features a mix of carne asada, chicken, shrimp and chorizo grilled with onions and bell peppers; fajitas are served with tortillas, lettuce, guacamole and pico de gallo.

The restaurant offers indoor customer seating and is popular for takeout. Customer parking is available in the Puck’s Alley lot.

Open daily, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays to Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays

Customer parking available in the Puck’s Alley lot

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<title>Frida’s Hawaiʻi is now open in Honolulu</title>

The Mexican restaurant, whose original location is in ‘Ewa Beach, recently opened in Puck’s Alley, close to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The restaurant — open for dine-in and takeout — features an extensive menu; signature dishes include supreme nachos, super burritos and birria tacos.

Frida’s Hawaiʻi is now open in Honolulu

Government & Politics

As Hawai‘i voters begin receiving their ballots for the general election, they may ask: What does Constitutional Amendment Question 2 actually mean?

 to the state constitution will be on the ballot this election. One of those is self-explanatory — should the state Senate be allowed 60 days to appoint judges and justices between April and January, instead of the current 30 days — but the other may seem complicated.

Constitutional Amendment Question 2 asks whether the state should allow the counties to issue “Resilient Infrastructure for Shelter and Equity bonds” — or RISE bonds — to help fund public improvement projects. These bonds would be repaid by future tax revenues on the new developments funded by said bonds, without imposing additional taxes or raising tax rates, and would be exempt from the counties’ debt limit.

The proposed amendment was introduced in the state Senate this year with the stated purpose of attempting to lower the development costs of affordable housing. As noted in 

 — the measure introducing the amendment — the development of new homes requires large up-front investments in water, drainage and other infrastructure.

Rep. Luke Evslin, chair of the House Committee on Housing, said Wednesday that the solution to this has been either to pass on those up-front costs to homebuyers, leading to rising house prices and a lack of affordable housing, or to raise taxes.

RISE bonds would, in theory, present a third option by allowing counties to fund that infrastructure, with the debt being serviced by future increases in tax revenue specifically generated by those selfsame new developments made possible by the infrastructure.

This is not an original concept; 48 other states, excluding Hawai‘i and Arizona, use “tax increment financing bonds,” which operate on the same principle.

Evslin told Aloha State Daily Wednesday that it’s only due to a quirk in Hawai‘i's constitution that the state doesn’t also use these bonds. He said the constitution as written does not permit the counties to issue such bonds, hence the need for a constitutional amendment.

Evslin emphasized that the bonds do not bring an increase in taxes. The property taxes paid by new homeowners in a new development made possible by the bonds will be at the same tax rate as any other comparable development, but the revenues from those taxes will go to pay off the bond, rather than back to the county.

However, Gov. Josh Green said Wednesday that this does not mean the bonds will reduce the counties' tax revenues, as the tax revenues generated by these new developments do not currently exist. Rather than reduce existing revenues, the bonds will simply redirect some future revenues.

Furthermore, the amendment would exempt RISE bonds from counties’ debt limits, which Evslin said means a county could issue any number of the bonds — although, he added, because developments funded via the bonds will still require taxpayer-funded services such as police and fire department responses, counties will likely be judicious in how many they issue.  

Evslin said that the tax increment financing bonds are typically structured conservatively so that the municipality that issues them takes on little to no risk. He said in the event of a disaster wiping out the infrastructure investments — something he said has happened in California — typically the bondholder, not the municipality, is left holding the bag.

The proposal was nigh-universally popular as it passed through the legislature, with major unions such as the Pacific Resource Partnership and the General Contractors Association of Hawai‘i voicing strong support of the amendment. This week, the Chamber of Commerce Hawai‘i urged members to vote yes on Question 2. 

One of the few people to testify against the proposal, Hawai‘i County resident Cindy Freitas, warned about the potential for lost tax revenue and the lack of guardrails for how much of a county’s tax base can be captured by the bonds.

But Green and several other lawmakers spoke in favor of the amendment Wednesday. Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi said there is a roughly 28,000 unit deficit of housing on O‘ahu, which he said RISE bonds can help to reduce.

Kaua‘i Mayor Derek Kawakami called the bonds “a monumental change to how we fund infrastructure,” adding that, after the many disasters of 2026, it is clear that the state’s resilience is dependent on having modern and reliable infrastructure.

“Communities can only be as resilient as the roads that connect us,” Kawakami said.

Evslin

<title>So what is a RISE bond anyway?</title>

Voters may wonder what Constitutional Amendment Question 2 means when they receive their ballots this week.

So what is a RISE bond anyway?

Lopaka and Tanya Kapanui

Lopaka Kapanui and Tanya Kapanui

Hawai‘i History

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Imagine waking up in the middle of the night, feeling like someone or something is sitting on your chest, pressing you down into the bed. Your eyes are open, and you are fully aware of your surroundings, but you’re completely unable to move. You try to will your arms to push your body up and your legs to kick out, but nothing happens. You can’t see anyone, but you feel a chilling presence in the room with you. You’re not alone.

Numerous related traditions exist around the world. Newfoundland’s Old Hag, the Scandinavian Mare, and the Italian Pandafeche all include a supernatural being either sitting, standing, or pressing upon the sleeper. The Hmong people’s Dab Tsog is described as a crushing spirit that sits on the chest and takes the sleeper’s breath. The Turkish Ağırlık throws itself onto sleeping people and presses down with full force, preventing them from waking. While every culture has a name for this strange experience, in Hawai‘i, we simply call it the Pressing Ghost.

The sensations are not limited to being pressed into your bed. Sometimes the sleeper reports feelings of choking or strangulation. A choking ghost is said to grab or strangle a sleeping person, sometimes making it difficult to speak or breathe. With a pressing ghost, the person may feel as though someone is sitting on their chest or body, pushing them into the mattress, or simply holding them down with tremendous weight. While neither experience necessarily involves seeing the entity responsible, folklore often interprets the physical sensation as evidence that something has entered the room.

According to doctors and sleep researchers, there is a scientific explanation. Most attribute these sensations to sleep paralysis, a strange state in which the mind wakes before the body. During REM sleep, our brain temporarily prevents most bodily movement so we don’t physically act out our dreams. If consciousness returns before that paralysis has ended, the result can be a terrifying combination of awareness, immobility, and vivid physical or sensory experiences.

A person may be fully aware of the room around them but still be unable to move or speak. Some people also experience sounds of footsteps or breathing, figures moving in the dark, or the unmistakable feeling that someone, or something, is in the room. The most frightening sensations are pressure on the body, as though an unseen weight is holding the sleeper down, or the feeling of something choking or strangling them.

Sleep paralysis is not particularly rare. A systematic review of 35 studies involving more than 36,500 people found that an estimated 7.6 percent of the general population, roughly one person in 13, had experienced sleep paralysis at least once.

However, that does not mean every story of a ghost choking or pressing someone in bed can be explained as sleep paralysis. Some experiences do not fit the phenomenon, and the medical explanation cannot accurately establish what a person actually experienced. What it does show is that the sensations associated with sleep paralysis are remarkably vivid, and may explain why stories of beings that choke, sit upon, or press down sleeping people appear in so many different cultures.

Professor Loyd Auerbach, a parapsychologist and longtime investigator of paranormal experiences, takes a somewhat different approach from the strictly medical explanation. He recognizes that sleep paralysis can produce experiences of a presence, pressure, suffocation, and even the sensation that something is sitting on or pressing down on the body. At the same time, he does not believe that every experience reported as a ghost can simply be dismissed as sleep paralysis. Auerbach emphasizes that investigators should look at the details of each experience and distinguish between different types of phenomena rather than assuming a single explanation.

A few years ago, a Kaua‘i resident shared her experience with a pressing ghost in a cabin in Kōke‘e State Park.

“Before the lease auction in 2024,” she explained, “Our family used to camp in a little cabin in Kōke‘e almost every summer. We’d been going there for as long as I can remember, my parents, grandparents, aunt and uncle, my two cousins, my brother, and me. It was always a special time for us. There was no electricity or TV, but we were never bored. Camping by lanterns and flashlights was always fun for us kids.”

As an adult, her family chose not to pursue a new lease, so they got together one last time to relax and enjoy the outdoors in Kōke‘e together. While the cold air and dozens of hiking trails are invigorating and exciting, they’re also exhausting. After a long day of fun and exploration, the entire family finally laid down to sleep.

For some reason, the woman woke up in the middle of the night to the sensation of being watched. She can’t explain why, but the feeling she got was negative, unhappy, almost angry. Then suddenly, it felt like someone was sitting or lying on top of her, and she was unable to move. She couldn’t even turn her head, but as she moved her eyes around the room, she couldn’t see anyone. Shadows in the corners teased her as she thought some entity might be hiding there, just out of sight. She tried and tried to move her arms and legs, to sit up, but she felt paralyzed; trapped under the weight of some unseen force.

The more she struggled, the more terrified she became, and she swears she heard someone else in the room shuffling around in the dark. Tears began to stream down her face into her ears, and she wondered if she was having a stroke or some other medical episode. She closed her eyes and prayed frantically, all the while trying to move. Then suddenly, the feeling disappeared, and she sat straight up in the bed.

She woke her husband, who used his flashlight to investigate the house and the locks on the doors and windows, but she knew he wouldn’t find anything. She guesses that the entire ordeal probably lasted only a few minutes, but in that state, feeling like someone was deliberately pushing her down into her bed, it seemed much, much longer.

“My mother immediately said ‘pressing ghost.’ My husband thought I should go to the ER,” she said, “And Google said ‘sleep paralysis.’ But I just don’t know. The feeling was real. The feeling of someone or something’s anger was real. And my fear was real.”

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<title>Pressing Ghost in Kōke‘e</title>

Cultures all around the world have a name for the ghost that sits on your chest, keeping you immobile and terrified when you wake in the middle of the night. The same is true for Hawai‘i, and here's a tale of one such frightening experience in a cabin in Kōke‘e.

Pressing Ghost in Kōke‘e

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Rick Hamada

I have an unwavering respect and admiration for those who choose to become a police officer.

And, yes, these sentiments apply to our first responders in all other important roles, but for this moment I'm focusing on police.

[{"type":"text","text":"Because another one has been murdered."}]

On Thursday, a jury determined the fate of the alleged killer of Maui Police Officer Suzanne O: 

[{"type":"text","text":"The SOB did it."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Put him away for the rest of his criminal life."}]

The accused, Clembert Kaneholani, 39, is not a good man. If you want to know more about how not good of a man he is then you should google, yahoo!, bing or any other search you want because I'm not giving this individual any more ink. 

[{"type":"text","text":"That's how it is."}]

When there is an egregious crime, all the attention focuses on the perpetrator, the accused. It's all about their background, their condition, and their motivation. We're told ad nauseum about their challenges, their abuses and their mental health. By the time pundits and media are done, the accused has a "made for TV" life story designed to humanize and garner sympathy and support with the general public.

[{"type":"text","text":"Wait a minute."}]

The story that should be told should be about the victims of the crime and their life story. And there doesn't have to be a re-write to sell them as acceptable to the public. Because they're the ones who suffered, who lost anything and everything that tragically may include their lives.

[{"type":"text","text":"Name the mother recently on trial for killing her three young kids."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Correct! Lindsay Clancy. "}]

You may also know her defense was centered on her suffering from postpartum psychosis which held her criminally not responsible. You got to know her every detail in news reports that were orchestrated by her theatrical defense attorney. She generated support from other mothers who wore pink and displayed images of Clancy on their shirts while waving placards stating her innocence while carrying their own babies.

[{"type":"text","text":"I have a question."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"What are the names of the three victims?"}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Not as top of mind, right?"}]

[{"type":"text","text":"All about the perp, the alleged or convicted criminal."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"And the three victims of their mother, Lindsay Clancy?"}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Cora (5), Dawson (3) and Callan (8 months)."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Not to be forgotten now."}]

As for Kaneholani, he all but convicted himself, caught on audio tape not only admitting to the shooting but being jocular and celebratory. "I thought I was going to get me one buck, but I got me one doe!" Kaneholani is heard saying while laughing.

[{"type":"text","text":"Yeah, real funny."}]

He is now facing life in prison without parole under a new law relating to minimum sentencing in the killing of police officers, prosectors and judges.

[{"type":"text","text":"That's enough about him."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"And more about Suzanne."}]

, Suzanne O joined the Maui Police Department in 2020, working first in the Kīhei Patrol District then the Wailuku Patrol District. She grew up in American Samoa and, according to 

 in a department recruitment video, wanted to serve as a role model for Pacific Islander girls and women. 

“I want to show them that there’s more to life,” she said in the video.

She was a member of the Honor Guard and had been awarded a Certificate of Merit for her work in Upcountry Maui during the Aug. 8, 2023, wildfires (21 homes were lost in Kula the same day Lahaina was destroyed).

“Her colleagues describe her as compassionate, genuine, honest, and deeply dedicated to serving Maui County,” the department said in the statement released to media at the time. “In her free time, she enjoyed being with her niece and nephews, as family was always her top priority.”

O had been intending to go to college for bachelor’s degree but not until after she put in more time as a patrol officer to get a feel for where she wanted to take her career.

“Whether it’s within the department or outside the department, be respectful,” she said. “Always be courteous. It’s never wrong, or it’s never a bad thing, to be courteous to people and show compassion.” 

[{"type":"text","text":"Suzanne with be sorely missed."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Kaneholani will not. "}]

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