Walter Mosley’s BLOOD GROVE AN EASY RAWLINS MYSTERY Social Commentary Brilliantly Mixed Mystery
By Lapacazo Sandoval, Contributing Writer
Published May 20, 2021
It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like some through the thick air and Easy Rawlins, the Black private detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit from a White Vietnam veteran. The young man comes to Easy with a story that makes little sense.
If you know Easy Rawlins and his mysterious life, there is a moment in the labyrinth of the story that leaves you puzzled maybe, even scratching your head and flipping back to re-read past chapters.
NAACP asks Isle of Wight County Commonwealth’s Attorney to remove herself from Windsor traffic stop case
The group also said it wants Gov. Northam to authorize Attorney General Herring’s office to review the Virginia State Police final investigation report. Author: 13News Now Staff Updated: 11:27 AM EDT May 14, 2021
RICHMOND, Va. The NAACP is asking Isle of Wight County Commonwealth’s Attorney Georgette C. Phillips to remove herself from the Windsor traffic stop case involving a Black Army officer.
In a letter, the Isle of Wight NAACP is also requesting Gov. Ralph Northam allow Attorney General Mark Herring s office to review the Virginia State Police s final investigation report into the incident.
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To the editor:
Michael Spahr’s letter of April 22 contained many statements that could be addressed, but I was especially struck by this one: “I do not believe in systemic racism. I believe if people would obey police orders they would all still be alive.”
Here is a non-exhaustive list of people of color killed by police officers and the circumstances under which they were killed.
Breona Taylor: asleep in her home when police arrived to execute a search warrant. In the subsequent incident, the unarmed woman was shot eight times.
Alatiana Jefferson: an officer shot and killed her through the window of her home; they were responding to a call from a neighbor that her door had been left open.
America s police no longer get the benefit of the doubt
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On the same day last week that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of killing George Floyd, 16-year-old Ma Khia Bryant â a Black girl â was shot and killed by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio. The next day, the city s interim police chief released bodycam footage of the incident, showing that the officer shot four times as Bryant appeared to lunge with a knife toward another young Black woman at the scene.
In the not-so-distant past, there would be little public controversy over whether this shooting was justified. The police would probably say Bryant was threatening another person s life, and therefore lethal force was necessary. The public would defer to the police report and, with sad resignation, move on.