This week on The Exchange, we take a look at efforts to create a more fair, equitable and compassionate world. We will look back a year since the murder of
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The head of Sioux City’s NAACP reflects on the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd.
“We have seen change that people are talking about, but I don’t know we can put our teeth into it, because things are still happening.”
That is Ike Rayford who is talking about incidents involving injustice against Black men across the country.
He say accountability is important and is happening in the case surrounding Officer Dereck Chauvin convicted in the murder of George Floyd and the upcoming litigation involving the other officers in the case.
Rayford says he is satisfied with tranparancy shown by local law enforcement. The Sioux City Police Department started using body cameras late last year.
SPM NEWS 5.7.21
The Iowa Department of Public Health added 18 more deaths due to complications of COVID-19, and almost 400 new cases with three in Woodbury County.
The number of deaths and cases may not have occurred during the past 24-hours as the state does add backdated information.
Currently there are almost 190 people hospitalized in the state with the virus with five patients being treated in Sioux City.
The 14-day test positivity rate statewide is 3.8%, in Woodbury County the level is 3.5%.
Credit Siouxland District Health
The annual report from the non-profit Trust For America’s Health tracks annual spending on public health for both federal and state governments.
Last week, a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts.
Chauvin now faces sentencing that could put him in prison for the rest of his life.
Last summer after Floyd’s death, the Junior League of Sioux City held a discussion on diversity with local leaders.
The conversation continued on Tuesday, April 20th at Camp High Hopes with the President of the Local Chapter of the NAACP Ike Rayford.
During this week’s program you will hear a condensed version of Rayford’s thoughts, answers to questions, and training for members of the local volunteer organization of women recorded and edited by Siouxland Public Media’s Sheila Brummer.
This week on The Exchange, how women can take control of their financial futures by making some simple changes, also what rural Iowans can expect from the state’s broadband expansion plan, and how Morningside College has brought back hands-on learning with its agricultural and food studies program. . We also hear about the progress of wind energy in Iowa and we hear about the online offerings of a First Amendment forum at the Greenlee School of Journalism at Iowa State University, and this week we talk to one of the orgainizers of Sioux City s first Holistic Health Fair.
But first we hear from the executive director of the Sioux City chapter of NAACP Ike Rayford about the use of force by police. Protests erupted in Minneapolis following the deadly shooting of a Black man during a traffic stop on Sunday. Siouxland Public Media reached out to Ike Rayford, the president of the Sioux City chapter of the NAACP, to hear his opinion on this developing story. He talks with Sheila Brummer.