A community conversation with local law enforcement in effort to improve community and police relations will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Greenville County Square. Watch here or on The Greenville News Facebook page for a livestream broadcast of the event. In an effort to be proactive, we have decided to meet and engage the community and local law enforcement in a town hall format conversation to create more interaction between the community, especially the black and brown community in the Upstate, a news release from Rev. U.A. Thompson reads.
The event comes days after former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota.
‘More work to be done’: Derek Chauvin murder conviction brings relief, resolve to keep fighting for justice in George Floyd s name Trevor Hughes, Kevin McCoy, Gabe Lacques, Deborah Barfield Berry and Marco della Cava, USA TODAY
Jury says Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges in George Floyd s death
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The emotions ran the gamut when news broke Tuesday that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts in the murder last May of George Floyd.
Relief. Joy. Fatigue. Determination.
But perhaps most of all, people of color across the United States felt that, for a moment, they mattered.
‘More work to be done’: Derek Chauvin murder conviction brings relief, resolve to keep fighting for justice in George Floyd s name Trevor Hughes, Kevin McCoy, Gabe Lacques, Deborah Barfield Berry and Marco della Cava, USA TODAY
Jury says Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges in George Floyd s death
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The emotions ran the gamut when news broke Tuesday that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts in the murder last May of George Floyd.
Relief. Joy. Fatigue. Determination.
But perhaps most of all, people of color across the United States felt that, for a moment, they mattered.
Floyd’s death last year sparked protests both peaceful and violent in hundreds of cities and ignited a new civil rights movement focused on exposing systemic racism and pushing for police reform.
Since then calls for change have only become more strident given the growing list of people of color killed while interacting with law enforcement. They include Rayshard Brooks, killed last June in Atlanta, and in recent days Daunte Wright, 20, shot
in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and Adam Toledo, 13, shot by a Chicago police officer while raising his hands at the officer’s request.
Over the past years, many such incidents have resulted in settlements or no charges brought against the officers involved, further inflaming tensions in communities of color and cementing a feeling that justice – even in the case where a video of an incident was available – would be hard to come by despite the world having watched the nearly 10-minute video of Floyd dying under Chauvin s knee.
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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Saturday, February 27, 2021
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - A former sheriff’s deputy in South Carolina has been charged for his alleged role in a July incident where he was accused of unlawfully arresting someone, leaving that person injured.
Ryan Andrew Gibson, 29, of Greer, was charged Friday with assault and battery third-degree, misconduct and misconduct in office, according to the State Law Enforcement Division.
The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office began an investigation after community activist Traci Fant reached out about the procedure for filing a formal complaint against Gibson, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.