View Comments Summertime, and the living is easy, opens George Gershwin s opera Porgy & Bess, but with so many things to do in the summer, it s not always easy to separate the meh from the yeah! when bombarded with all the shiny choices.
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Cincinnati police officer Nedra Ward
“I was standing on the front line, getting cursed out, people telling me, ‘Why don’t you quit your job?’ ”
Even the work part of the day was like nothing she’d ever known.
“I was standing on the front line, getting cursed out, people telling me, ‘Why don’t you quit your job?’” she said.
The officer gets it. In fact, some of her family members were among the protesters. But the anger directed at her, as a Black woman wearing a badge, was tough.
Her career had started in the wake of the 2001 riots, after which she joined the department to make sure people who looked like her were represented on the force.