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Aurelia Persley heard gunshots again Sunday night near her home in the Village of Roll Hill, and she once again felt unsafe in her home for herself and her children.
The mother of two spoke to city council members at Monday s Cincinnati City Council special neighborhoods committee meeting about finding solutions to stop violence in East Westwood and that she can t sleep and hears regular gunshots. I feel like I don t want to go back home, Presley said through tears.
She said she can t even let her children, including her 8-year-old son and her baby, be outside to play.
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Westside residents had a clear message for Cincinnati council members Monday night: they re tired of meetings about violent crime and ready for action. Nearly a hundred people attended a special session of the Neighborhoods Committee in East Westwood.
Aurelia Persley says she doesn t feel safe with her two kids in East Westwood, and she worries about being the next target of gun violence. I could step out my door and somebody could be shooting right there next to me, Persley said. I don’t want that every time I step outside. I don t want anybody to have to go through that every time they step outside or go somewhere and have to get shot or killed because they re just stepping outside the door.
Cincinnati Police search for missing woman with dementia
A 67-year-old Evanston woman is missing.
Diane Hafford went missing from her home in the 3600 block of Trimble Ave., police say.
She was last seen walking towards Dana Ave. around 10 a.m. on Saturday, according to police.
Hafford is between 5-foot-4 and 5-foot-6, officers say, and weights approximately 140 pounds.
She was wearing her hair in a braided bun with a tie dye scrunchie and had on a black shirt and black pants.
Hafford has dementia.
Contact Briana Rice at 513-568-3496 or brice@enquirer.com. Follow her on Twitter at @BriRiceWrites.
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Cincinnati Magazine
April 7, 2021
In some aspects, Cincinnati is a very different place than it was two decades ago. But when it comes to race relations, it’s almost exactly the same. Black people living and working here can attest to the structural racial divide that continues to undergird their experiences.
Illustration by Kingsley Mebechi
Beneath the city’s shiny new buildings, popular restaurants, and everyday wheeling, dealing, and power brokering lie the ashes of April 2001. That’s when Over-the-Rhine exploded in an uprising after the death of Timothy Thomas, an unarmed Black man, at the hands of then-Cincinnati Police Officer Stephen Roach, and it was a reckoning that some say was a long time coming.