Newport Daily News
NEWPORT It’s a profession that’s arguably been the subject of heightened public scrutiny since the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, but Madison Mitchell-Laplante has always wanted to be a police officer.
“(I’m) not gonna change my ways just because of what’s happening in society,” she said, her gaze steady and firm.
Mitchell-Laplante sat in a folding chair in the Rodgers Recreation Center on the Salve Regina University campus Sunday afternoon, spaced 3 feet away from the chair beside her. Masked and dressed in her cap and gown, she waited for the signal to begin the procession to the tent on the McAuley Hall lawn, where the commencement ceremony was to be held.