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Valedictorian Says Mic Was Cut Off After Mentioning Trayvon Martin In Speech
Family Of Army Veteran Demand Answers After He Died And His Body Was Returned Without Organs
The family of an army vet- eran are looking for answers after their loved one died in a Pennsylvania jail and his body was returned to them without a brain, throat or heart.
Everett Palmer Jr., 41, traveled from his home in Delaware to Pennsylvania on April 7, 2018 to resolve an outstanding warrant for a DUI charge.
Two days later, his family received the devastating news that Palmer had been ar- rested and later died in the York County Jail.
The county coroner had stated that Palmer 'became agitated and began hitting his head against his cell door.'
The family hired their own pathologist, who determined Palmer's death should be la- beled a homicide.
Palmer Jr. graduated from Martin Van Buren High School in Queens Village. He later served in the Army as a
The cause of death was eventually updated as 'compli- cations following an excited state, associated with metham- phetamine toxicity, during physical restraint,' Spectrum News reported.
paratrooper and was the fa- ther of two boys.
He was working as a per- sonal trainer in Delaware at the time of his death.
A high school valedictorian is raising concern after she claimed that her principal in- tentionally turned her micro- phone off after she mentioned Trayvon Martin and other black victims killed by police during her graduation speech, NBC News reports
Rooha Haghar, a senior at Emmet J. Conrad High School in Dallas, Texas shared a clip of her interrupted speech on Twit- ter on Monday (June 3). "To the kids that were murdered in senseless mass shootings. To Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and all the other children who became victims," she said in the video.
Before she could finish her sentence, however, her mic ap- peared to cut off. Haghar is seen in the video looking around and tapping her micro-
ROOHA HAGHAR
phone before taking her seat. When Principal Temesghen Asmerom got up, the micro- phone appears to be working again.
"My valedictorian speech was cut short because I said the names of black children who
had become victims of police brutality," Haghar wrote. "Our principal signaled for my mic to be turned off as soon as I said 'Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice' and played it off as a technical difficulty. pathetic."
Black Ex-Cop Who Fatally Shot
Unarmed White Woman Gets
Central Park Five
Something rare has hap- pened to a police officer who has killed an unarmed citizen. He was convicted and sen- tenced to 12/12 years behind bars. Oh, did we tell you the cop was black and victim was a white woman from Aus- tralia?
The cop or should we say more accurately, the ex-cop is Mohamed Noor. Actually a Minneapolis jury convicted him in April of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the July 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond. His sentencing was today.
Tragically, Noor shot Da- mond when she approached his squad car in the alley be- hind her home. Damond, a 40-year-old dual citizen of the
Prosecutor Linda Fairstein
MOHAMED NOOR AND JUSTINE DAMOND
Dropped By Book Publisher
U. S. and Australia, was en- gaged to be married a month after the shooting.
At his sentencing hearing earlier today, Noor, filled with emotion and his voice breaking, spoke about the shooting. He said he was hor- rified when he saw Da-
mond’s body on the ground, repports CBS News.
“I knew in an instant I was wrong,” he said. He said the shooting “leaves me numb, and feeling incredibly lonely. But none of that, none of those words capture what it truly feels like.”
Linda Fairstein, the lead prosecutor in the Central Park Five case, has been dropped by her publisher as the fallout continues over Ava DuVer- nay’s Netflix series When They See Us.
The miniseries profiles the wrongful conviction of five Black and Brown teens for the 1989 rape and beating of a jog- ger in New York’s Central Park. On Friday (June 7), Dutton Publishing spokeswoman Amanda Walker confirmed in a statement that the pub- lisher’s customer service line has been telling inquiring callers that it had “terminated its relationship” with Fairstein. Fairstein became a best-selling crime novelist after her stint as a prosecutor.
In a statement issued through Laura Rossi Public Relations, Dutton said they had jointly “decided to termi- nate their relationship.”
Renewed outcry has taken place since the premiere of When They See Us, which paints Linda Fairstein as a negligible prosecutor who went ahead with a case without any
Sagging Pants Law: Black Men Make Up 96% Of Town’s Arrests For The Offense
12 1/2 Years In Prison
LINDA FAIRSTEIN
physical evidence the five boys were involved in the brutal rape.
On Tuesday, Fairstein re- signed from the boards of the nonprofit Safe Horizon, Vassar College, God’s Love We Deliver and the Joyful Heart Founda- tion. A social media campaign called #CancelLindaFairstein was launched earlier this week to bring awareness to Fairstein’s role in the wrong- ful conviction.
Black men in Shreveport, Louisiana have made up the majority of the arrests since 2017 for wearing sagging pants—an astonishing 96 percent.
According to data from the Shreveport Police De- partment, 699 Black men have violated a Louisiana law that targets people wearing britches below the belt, while only 12 white men have been accused of the crime. Thir- teen Black women were ar- rested also for the violation. On Tuesday, City Council- woman LeVette Fuller ar-
gued that the law should be repealed. The law is being de- bated after the death of An- thony Childs, 31, who police were reportedly chas-
ing down for wearing saggy pants.
Forensic evidence showed SPD Officer Traveion Brooks fired eight shots, three of which hit Childs. Police claim Childs shot one bullet into his own chest and that was the shot that killed him, according to the coro- ner.
The pants sagging ordi- nance 50-167 which was passed more than a decade ago, gives police the right to cite violators and summoned them to court, The Shreve- port-Times reports.
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