Resource officer kent hall ran into the cafeteria with no idea of what he was getting into. Moments later. He had the suspect in custody. Now hes telling his side of the story. Fox19 nows mike schell is live at the school. Where dialogue is happening right now. The Madison Local School district is putting together a series of fourms to focus on how to move forward and to discuss school safety, security and support. The man who will play a big role in that is the sheriffs deputy who went after the 14year old who opened fire in his schools cafeteria last week. 1nat shots fired madison school. Shots fired suject down. The man behind radio call is school and retired Butler County sheriff deputy. Kent hall. 1kent knew that wasnt right was hearing pop, pop, pop. It was very distinct according to Austin Hancock the lunch room and firing shots at some of his 2kent as i enter the cafeteria, i see several kids laying edit looking to my right, i see a possible suspect, running. Deputy hall had an
Were seeing the edge to the butler area into dry ridge and williamstown. Thalmus, youre dry. Areas in georgetown and areas east of there, hanging on to mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures near 70 degrees. As you could see, this is moving north and east. We will continue to see the shield of rain. I expect to have some soggy conditions later in the evening. And were down to 2 1 2 miles, visibility in hamilton. Temperatures are around 60. And 63 in middletown and 61 from batavannion. As we continue to track rain for tomorrow as well. How much you could expect through the day tomorrow and as well as the entire weekend on monday. Thats coming up in 10 minutes. Local breaking news alert now. Charged with covering up an off duty accident by another cop has been acquitted. Officer Jason Cotterman were charged with charged with derecollection of duty. They found him not guilty. And man finds himself in the middle of gun target. Neighbors are left to wonder, if more violence are left. And in the
Letters to the Editor for Thursday, March 24
Hendersonville Times-News
Stolen labor from millions
To the Editor: In a column (March 6,) the writer suggests that the labor of enslaved Africans was not valuable enough to be worthy of reparations. That is wrong.
From the beginning of English colonization, the labor of enslaved Africans was so valuable that every loophole that might have gained anyone freedom was examined and closed.
In 1662, the Virginia House of Burgesses made enslavement hereditary with a law that a child of an enslaved woman became a slave even if the father was an Englishman. In 1667, Virginia lawmakers closed the Christian baptism loophole by passing a law that being a baptized Christian could not free a black person from bondage. Fugitive slave laws closed off every avenue of escape.
Letters to the Editor, Sunday, Feb. 7
Hendersonville Times-News
Tune in The Social Dilemma on Netflix
To the Editor: I strongly urge you to see “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix, if you have not yet seen it. Through interviews with former executives and developers for Google, FaceBook, Twitter, etc., this explains how social media is using subtly insidious methods to manipulate your opinions, moving each of us further right, or further left, and exacerbating political divisions. The Russians did not need to “hack” FaceBook; they merely used the tools that Facebook developed and which are available to their advertisers. We need to be alert to this because we can’t rely on the “fact checking” algorithms in the media; we must be personally vigilant.