The first Black sheriff in Wyoming takes over an agency that has faced significant controversy CNN 2/21/2021 By Emma Tucker, CNN
For the first time in its 130-year history, Wyoming has a Black sheriff.
Aaron Appelhans, 39, has taken charge of the Albany County Sheriff s Office, which faces two pending lawsuits and calls for reform in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Robert Robbie Ramirez by a deputy in 2018. You don t see a whole lot of African Americans in law enforcement, Appelhans told CNN. So, I m trying to overcome that roadblock of taking a non-traditional career path and affect change within my community.
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February 1, 2021
Several virtual events are planned this month as part of the University of Wyoming’s Black History Month celebration.
“The Death of Black Wall Street and the Myth of the American Dream” is the theme of Black History Month, sponsored by UW’s African American and Diaspora Studies (AADS) and the Black Studies Center. Events are free and open to the public.
“This year’s theme reckons with the 100th anniversary of one of America’s most catastrophic events,” says Fredrick Douglass Dixon, the Black Studies Center’s director and an assistant professor in the UW School of Culture, Gender and Social Justice. “Each event examines the layered nuances of the economic, political and social impacts of Black Wall Street’s death.”
Wyoming’s first Black sheriff takes office in troubled times
Albany County Sheriff Aaron Appelhans stands in front of the courthouse in Laramie on Dec. 21, 2020. Appelhans is the first Black sheriff in the state of Wyoming. (Joel Funk/WyoFile)
Albany County Sheriff Aaron Appelhans still has some work to do before his office is set up. The walls are mostly empty as stacks of framed pictures sit on shelves and the floor, paperwork piled high obscures the desktop. Behind it all sits the new sheriff, making sense of the opportunity he’s seized.
“It was a bit of a whirlwind for the first week,” Appelhans said with a laugh. “But it’s been overwhelmingly positive.”