12 recruits graduate from Utica Fire Academy
Twelve new firefighters graduated from the Utica Fire Academy Friday, and will go on to serve in various departments around the state.
Posted: Jul 2, 2021 4:23 PM
Updated: Jul 2, 2021 4:48 PM
Posted By: WKTV
UTICA, N.Y. – Twelve new firefighters graduated from the Utica Fire Academy Friday, and will go on to serve in various departments around the state.
Eleven men and one woman trained at the academy for the past 14 weeks.
Here are the recruits and where they’re headed:
East Herkimer Fire Department
Jesse James
Utica Fire Department Chief says the next test is in May, and he’s hoping to have even more recruits in the next class.
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The head of Maryland’s NAACP on Sunday lambasted Gov. Larry Hogan’s posthumous pardon of lynching victims as “political posturing,” criticizing the Republican governor for issuing a blanket pardon of dozens of the state’s Black victims even though many were never convicted of any crimes, but merely charged or accused of wrongdoing before they were killed.
The scathing criticism comes after Hogan on Saturday issued the blanket pardons for Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old Black child who was hanged from a sycamore tree after he was convicted of raping and assaulting a White woman, and 33 other victims of racial lynching in Maryland between 1854 and 1933.
Maryland NAACP leader blasts Gov. Larry Hogan s posthumous pardons of lynching victims as political posturing
Updated 10:00 AM ET, Tue May 11, 2021
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, far right, Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski and Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones stand next to a new historic marker on Saturday in Towson, Maryland, that memorializes Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old who was dragged from a jailhouse and hanged from a tree by a mob of white men in 1885. Hogan signed a posthumous pardon for 34 men, including Cooper, who were lynched in the state between 1854 and 1933 without due process against allegations they faced. (CNN)The head of Maryland s NAACP on Sunday lambasted Gov. Larry Hogan s posthumous pardon of lynching victims as political posturing, criticizing the Republican governor for issuing a blanket pardon of dozens of the state s Black victims even though many were never convicted of any crimes, but merely charged or accused of wrongdoing before they w
May 9, 2021
Governor Larry Hogan issued a full posthumous pardon for 34 victims of racial lynching in Maryland between 1854 and 1933, on the basis that these extrajudicial killings violated fundamental rights to due process and equal protection of law. It is the first time in history that a governor has issued a blanket pardon for the victims of racial lynchings.
“The State of Maryland has long been on the forefront of civil rights, dating back to Justice Thurgood Marshall’s legal battle to integrate schools and throughout our national reckoning on race,” said Governor Hogan. “Today, we are once again leading the way as we continue the work to build a more perfect union. My hope is that this action will at least in some way help to right these horrific wrongs and perhaps bring a measure of peace to the memories of these individuals, and to their descendants and loved ones.”
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Maryland s governor on Saturday posthumously pardoned 34 victims of racial lynching in the state dating between 1854 and 1933, saying they were denied legal due process against the allegations they faced.
It was a first-of-its-kind pardon by a governor of a U.S. state.
Gov. Larry Hogan signed the order at an event honoring Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old who was dragged from a jailhouse and hanged from a tree by a mob of white men in 1885 before his attorneys could file an appeal of a rape conviction that an all-white jury reached within minutes.
“My hope is that this action will at least in some way help to right these horrific wrongs and perhaps bring a measure of peace to the memories of these individuals and to their descendants and their loved ones, Hogan said.