Mister mayor, we welcome you thank you for the opportunity you have afforded to me and other members of congress to visit with you recently while you help to get us to understand exactly what you are doing and what other assistance could be helpful with what you are attempting to do. You are now recognized for five minutes. Thank you chairwoman and thank you for your friendship and leadership and your presence is not the first time we have testified to gather add exhibition park whenever Maxine Waters is there i am there. This is the most important of all subjects coming before you im so grateful to be here. Thank you to representatives green and garcia for your perspective and my dear friend brad sherman thank you for being a part of this. I come before you as a parent, mayor, Foster Parent and volunteer and organizer and longterm activist talking about skid row when i was 14 i saw something that even predated my birth by a decades where we deposit social ills and trauma and the 14 ye
Growing up in Watts, it might be more challenging to find your purpose, but Ervin “EP” Pope’s life mission was laid out in front of him through his family and his faith. In a recent interview with the L.A. Sentinel, EP discusses his legacy in the world of music.
Mitchell Spotlights ‘Extraordinary Ministry of Rocellia Johnson’
By Cora Jackson-Fossett, Religion Editor
Published April 7, 2021
The book cover of “An Untraditional Fire.” (Courtesy photo)
The Los Angeles-area faith community is quite familiar with the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Rocellia Johnson. While he passed away in 2018, he left an indelible mark that many still imitate today.
Johnson not only founded Bethany Baptist Church of West Los Angeles in 1958, but he also established Bethany Christian Bible College (BCBC) in 1978 and served several years as executive director of the National Evangelism Movement (NEM).
Throughout his long ministry, thousands of people accepted Christ as their Savior and an equal number accepted their call to preach the Gospel. Johnson influenced countless lives and now, author Harry Mitchell III is relating the tremendous extent of the evangelist’s reach in a new book, “An Untraditional Fire: The Extraordinary Ministry of Rocellia Johnson.
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Long Island’s two county police departments are among a small minority of America’s largest local law-enforcement agencies that have spurned broad use of body-worn cameras, even as deadly encounters between officers and unarmed Black people increased calls for greater police transparency and accountability.
A Newsday survey of the nation’s 50 largest law-enforcement agencies found just three that had not equipped large numbers of officers with body cameras before 2020: The Nassau and Suffolk police departments and the Portland Police Bureau, in Oregon.
Deployment of body cameras as standard police equipment extends from the nation’s largest force, the 35,000-member New York Police Department, to smaller agencies, including Freeport’s 100-officer department. It has occurred as law-enforcement authorities and the public have come to rely on video recordings to document crimes and police conduct.