Jun 30, 2021 / 08:47 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) The Indianapolis City-County Council has handed out its first round of 2021 grants designed to help stop violence in the city.
A total of $403,000 is going to 25 groups in Indianapolis.
The grants range in size from $4,375 to $32,500. Most of the grant money is going to youth programs for educational and career training. But also, the Indianapolis Soap Box Derby Association Inc. is getting $10,000 for the storage and maintenance of soap box derby cars.
Inside of a building on the near-northwest side is where the
Indianapolis Soap Box Derby Association stores a couple dozen cars. According to Peg Huffman, the association’s secretary-treasurer, the cars are more than a vessel for many of the kids in the racing program, but a vehicle to a clear path in life.
May 27, 2021 / 07:35 AM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Saturday will mark one year since the protests that followed the death of George Floyd and the riots in downtown Indianapolis. To this day, there are untold stories, including what it was like from the police perspective.
“Many officers have shared that on those two nights, they did not believe they were going to go home,” said Rick Snyder, the president of the Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police (FOP).
The FOP and Snyder represent Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) officers and their stories from those nights.
People took to the streets, carrying Black Lives Matter signs. The unrest spread into two nights of riots. It is hard to forget the images of shattered business windows and dumpsters on fire. The impact on the community will be ever lasting.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) All “red flag” cases filed by Indianapolis police will now come before a judge after an Indiana prosecutor was criticized for declining to use the law to pursue court hearings that could have prevented a man from accessing the guns used to kill eight people at a FedEx facility last month.
Judge Amy Jones, who oversees the filings of red flag cases in Marion County, issued new guidance this week. All such reports will now go straight to her courtroom instead of the prosecutor’s office. Indianapolis police will have 48 hours to submit those filings, and two judges will then decide within 14 days whether to hold a hearing.