KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - This week, the Road Commission of Kalamazoo County (RCKC) announced that there may be some delays into how soon va.
COVID-19 cases jump to 11 at Kalamazoo County Jail amid vaccination efforts
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KALAMAZOO, MI – There are 11 cases of COVID-19 among those incarcerated at the Kalamazoo County Jail.
The 11 positive coronavirus tests came back during a standard quarantine period before new inmates are released into the general population, Sheriff Richard Fuller said.
Those people are still in quarantine and are being treated, Fuller said. They have not required hospitalization.
For the first year of the pandemic, the jail only had five people test positive for COVID-19, Fuller said. Now, they have charted 11 cases in about two weeks, he said.
How Kalamazoo-area policing has changed in wake of George Floyd protests
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Police use tear gas to disperse protesters for violating curfew in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com)Joel Bissell
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KALAMZOO, MI – There have been months of protests and discussions about changing policing in Kalamazoo County since the May 25, 2020 death of 46-year-old Black man George Floyd.
The man responsible for Floyd’s death, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, was found guilty April 20, of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Chauvin will be sentenced in eight weeks. He knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes, 29 seconds, including 3 1/2 minutes after Floyd took his last breath.
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