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Police Officer Moved to Job Having No Contact With Public After Sharing Pro-Derek Chauvin Post
On 4/22/21 at 1:33 PM EDT
A police officer in Fall River, Massachusetts, has been reassigned to a position that has no contact with the public, after sharing a controversial post on social media in support of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted on three counts of murdering George Floyd.
The announcement comes after the Fall River Police Department said the officer inadvertently posted a statement to the department s Facebook account on Tuesday that appeared to show support for Chauvin and criticize Floyd.
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FALL RIVER Mayor Paul Coogan made his second State of the City address Tuesday in a joint session of the School Committee and City Council, marking the first in-person meeting for the council in 2021.
While the elected officials gathered in person for Coogan’s address, the public, like in many events in the last year, had to listen to the mayor’s speech remotely.
Here s five takeaways from the State of the City address:
City finances
Coogan acknowledged the disruption and uncertainty the city faced during the past year’s COVID-19 pandemic which shut down communities in the Commonwealth just a week before the mayor was due to give his first State of the City address last March.