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Video of Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes went viral last May and inspired months of demonstrations against police brutality. Amid calls for expansive police reform, two local chiefs of police said they stand behind Tuesday s verdict and are hopeful for the future of law enforcement. William Parrish, chief of police for East Stroudsburg University, said he was deeply disturbed when he watched the video of Floyd s arrest and death. He said he struggled to make sense of Chauvin s actions and couldn t. Yet as I watched the trial coverage of Derek Chauvin, I felt some of my lost pride restored, Parrish said. ....
Story continues after gallery. It s estimated that at least 2,000 people attended the Monroe County George Floyd Memorial March organized by Johnson, which began in Dansbury Park in East Stroudsburg and ended at Stroudsburg s Courthouse Square. Less than a year later, Stroudsburg Mayor Tarah Probst unveiled a work of art to commemorate the march, and Floyd s memory. Probst unveiled the art installation, which is permanent, at the corner of Sixth Street and Quaker Alley on March 15. The structure was designed by Jim Evanisko and Go Collaborative, using a photograph taken by Corporal Rolando D. Acosta, Firearms Investigator for the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department. A grant from Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau helped pay for the art project. ....
Veteran Pocono Record court reporter McDonald dead at 67 Elizabeth McDonald Pocono Record s veteran courts and crime beat reporter, Joseph J. McDonald Jr., has died. Journalism was in his DNA. For nearly five decades, Joe was a hard-charging newspaper reporter with a talent for covering high-impact breaking stories in Pennsylvania, driven to get the story and to get it right. Joe died on Jan. 12 at Monroe County Hospice House, East Stroudsburg, at age 67, after a private and hard-fought 21-month battle with a terminal illness. He was a reporter for the Pocono Record. His last bylined article was published on Jan. 4. Joe was born in 1953 in Scranton to Joseph (Sr.) and Margaret McDonald. He began his career at the Scrantonian Tribune, where his father became publisher, in a gritty, smoke-filled newsroom of typewriters and teletypes, and city editors growled approval or disapproval of stories. ....
Keep moving forward | Fontones It s happened: 2020 is finally over. I m sure I m not alone in feeling as though I ve aged an additional five years just over the last 10 months. I thought taking on the role as editor of this paper in 2018 would be difficult enough boy, was I mistaken. I remember early on in 2020, penning an editorial titled: You’re more likely to encounter this disease in the Poconos than coronavirus. As you, our readers, likely know, I ate my words shortly after as the phenomena known as COVID-19 inched closer and closer to us here in Monroe County. I had been planning a business trip to New York City the first week of March. I was supposed to head to USA TODAY s NYC office, and I d likely be hitting up old haunts (if they were still around) in St. Mark s Place for lunch. ....
2020 provides food for thought this Kwanzaa in the Poconos Kwanzaa, the celebration that began on Saturday and ends on Jan. 1, is a Swahili word meaning “first fruit,” a reference to the annual harvest in Africa. It surfaced in the U.S. after the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles and sent a positive message touching on race, African-American culture, unity, family and community. This year s celebrations will be unlike any other. In homes across the Poconos, Kwanzaa will be celebrated in Zoom meetings and small gatherings. There weren t 100-plus people jammed into the Hughes Library on Saturday. Instead, people logged on to Zoom for an hour of Kwanzaa, said Ceo Jarvis, better known as “Kwanzaa Mama.” ....