Last week, during a virtual public hearing about Maryland s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines for Latino and Black communities, two people made fun of Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro while she was speaking. The two people, a council employee and a contractor from the nonprofit Montgomery Community Media, were overheard on the Zoom call discussing Navarro s speech. I love how her accent comes out and pronounces words like she thinks they re pronounced. Like, she says represents and hologram, the woman said, according to WZDC. I heard hologram and thought that was kind of interesting, a man said while laughing. So cute, the woman responded.
The future of policing in Montgomery Co. schools could keep SROs on staff, but not directly inside schools
Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro proposed an alternative SRO plan that would remove SROs and replace them with an exterior cluster team. Author: Kolbie Satterfield (WUSA 9) Published: 11:26 PM EST March 7, 2021 Updated: 11:54 PM EST March 7, 2021
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. The battle over the future of school resource officers in Montgomery County continues, but with a twist; an alternative plan introduced by Councilmember Nancy Navarro that would keep school resource officers (SROs), but not physically inside the schools.
Navarro’s amendment to a pre-existing bill to keep SROs would keep the officers out of school facilities and instead place the officer in a cluster team made up of SROs, mental health professionals, and positive youth development staff.
| Credit: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for The Washington Post via Getty Startling and symbolic. That s how Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro describes a virtual meeting held earlier this week when while she was discussing racial disparities in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine two of those participating in the call mocked her accent.
As Navarro spoke personally about the bizarre disconnect she s experienced in her years of public service and how the COVID-19 pandemic has specifically impacted the Latino and Black communities, two participants in the Tuesday Zoom call could be heard laughing and joking about her accent. Get push notifications with news, features and more.
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Montgomery County Council issued a statement saying it “stands in solidarity with Councilmember Nancy Navarro,” following an incident during its March 2 meeting in which two people could be heard in the background apparently making fun and giggling at her accent. In its statement, the council called it “a troubling and unacceptable incident,” especially in […]