Kalamazoo s Youth Juvenile Justice Fellowship program, started in 2021 through WMU s Lewis Walker Institute, supports the development of youth advocates in the community as well as a vision to create an alternative to youth incarceration in Kalamazoo
i m hoping and that s also my prayer that before individual society grabs shotguns and chases someone running down the street and kill them, that they will also think if they take those extreme actions, they will be held accountable. so maybe that will lead to a better direction. and lee, to you, counselor, you said you think this verdict in a way was an anomaly. what do you mean? well, we know just by the sheer numbers that and unfortunately i ve come to represent a great deal of families who have loved ones killed in tragedies like this, and more often than not there is no accountability. and that has been a concern of the organizing community, of what was called a referendum on the race in the past year, and that was something that was going to be put to the test in this verdict.
demonstration, four tv cameras and a news helicopter but the reality is day after day after day our cops are in the neighbors, not just literally protecting people with their lives but in the meetings, organizing community,istening to the problem and provide the service. we have the historical challenge of the neighbors in communities that need quality policing the most for historic reasons have a level of distrust but those relationships at grass roots are more healthy than a national network would have you believe. let s address this head on, this question of whether it is the media and maybe some politicians who are exploiting a few isolated incidents. chief ramsey there have been a sears of incidents over the last year, you can say it is not at the lot but they have been dratic a lot of them record show police acting recklessly or the original stories did not match up to what happen
that woman was able to get away. prison officials have no clue how elliott escaped but we ll keep watching the story carefully for you. she was not drunk when she backed her car group of people leaving three of them dead. that s the word from cops near tampa, florida. the 79-year-old woman did not know her car was in reverse when she stepped on the gas. she is not being charged for this incident. some other people hurt in that parking lot. all eyes on sochi, russia, where the winter olympics kick off on friday. russian authorities deploying more than 50,000 police and troops to help guard the olympic venues but officials there admit three media hotels are still under construction and they are not ready. every game has some last-minute issues. these ones are being handled with the organizing community and we hope the situation will be solved in the next couple of days.
exhaustion that did not stop them then and today as peter indicated it has been a glorious day in terms of weather and all sorts of other reasons. what struck you most today as you heard the speech given. we heard dozens of speeches this morning. which speech stood out most to you? ? and not because he is our colleague but i thought reverend al sharpton gave a moving presentation and i thought it was forward-looking and heartfelt and captured the spirit of the way that movements are articulated by a civil rights leader that also is rooted in the church and one of the things about the original civil rights movement is the two big convening forces were the religious community which martin luther king junior came out of and the labor community, the organizing community which is where ralph antibiotic ebernathr and i thought reverend sharpton did really well. one of the biggest responses was to eric holder, and i think he