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Posted By Thadeus Greenson@ThadeusGreenson on Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 2:44 PM click to enlarge Mark McKenna Charmaine Lawson is hugged by supporters at a 2019 vigil for her son, David Josiah Lawson. Charmaine Lawson still hasn’t cashed the $200,000 check that came as a part of her settlement agreement with the city of Arcata. She says it took her four days to even open the envelope it was mailed in and it has now sat for weeks atop her son’s urn. Filed in November of 2018, the lawsuit alleged the city and its officials violated Charmaine Lawson’s equal protection rights by inadequately and incompetently investigating the April 15, 2017, stabbing death of her son, 19-year-old David Josiah Lawson, with racism and bias contributing to what th