Kwamena Ocran died Jan. 8 after being shot by at least one Gaithersburg officer
January 24, 2021 | 8:30 pm
January 25, 2021
More than 100 people gathered outside Gaithersburg City Hall on Sunday afternoon to protest the police killing of Kwamena Ocran.
Photos by Caitlynn Peetz
More than 100 people gathered outside Gaithersburg City Hall on Sunday to protest the recent killing of a Black man by city police.
At the event, speakers again questioned the Gaithersburg Police Department’s recounting of the Jan. 8 shooting that left 24-year-old Kwamena Ocran dead.
Police say four plain clothes officers, part of the department’s Street Crimes Unit, surveilled Ocran after receiving a report that he was armed with a handgun. When they approached him, he allegedly fled.
A recent guest editorial and a column in the Aiken Standard illustrated a common ignorance of the purpose of a proper foreign policy.
The Post and Courierâs op-ed, âBiden must be wary on Iran, Middle Eastâ (12/2/20), argued that Biden must not act too fast to âend military support for Saudi Arabiaâ as that would decrease stability in the Middle East and âamount to large concessions to Iran,â which would weaken the U.S. position in nuclear negotiations with Iran. Notice the underlying assumption that it is possible to have a meaningful negotiation with a nation that calls for our destruction every day and has never made reparations â let alone apologized â for its act of war in seizing our embassy and holding American hostages for more than a year. A further assumption is that an enemy of our enemy should be our friend. Is this true when both enemies are major exporters of an ideology that preaches the destruction of our values? Yet anothe