Sadness and grief, of course. Shock and bewilderment. Raw anger, too.
And who could blame them?
Not even a week had passed since a Stokes County deputy shot the family dog, a pit bull named Cleo, on the stairs leading into their home.
Deputy Joseph Lane told his supervisors that the dog growled and had him cornered. The traumatized family flatly disputes that characterization.
âShe was professionally trained,â said Larry Rogers, the family patriarch. âShe would run and hide if you raised your voice even a little.â
Making a tragedy even worse, in this day and age, there is no video evidence. Deputies in Stokes County do not wear body cameras nor are patrol cars equipped with in-dash video.
White
A Winston-Salem man is asking an appellate court to overturn his murder conviction, saying there is clear evidence that a prosecutor dismissed two Black jurors because of their race. The evidence? The prosecutor admitted it in court when challenged.
And an appellate court in 1998 found that the prosecutor illegally used race in jury selection. But the manâs conviction was not overturned because of a narrow interpretation of a U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting race discrimination in jury selection, the manâs attorney said. Race had to be the sole reason a juror was removed for his conviction to be overturned, but that rule has since changed, the attorney said. Now, it just has to be a significant factor.