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19-Year-Old Kalan Haywood
Protestors Confront Dallas
Set To Become Wisconsin’s
District Attorney At Town Hall About
Youngest Lawmaker
Police Killing Of Botham Jean
Kalan Haywood, 19 years old, just earned the ability to vote a year ago and he still can’t hang out with friends at clubs or drink a beer since the legal age is 21. Yet this young mover and shaker is just a few months shy of becoming the youngest lawmaker in Wisconsin.
Haywood who is ready- ing to be sworn in to the As- sembly chambers of the Wisconsin Capitol to repre- sent Milwaukee’s 16th Dis- trict is also taking college classes at Cardinal Stritch University.
Lawmakers are normally a lot older than Haywood. In fact, there’s no one younger on record serving in a state Legislature, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Haywood won in a five- way primary election in Au- gust sans a Republican
KALAN HAYWOOD
challenger.
Even though Haywood
can’t gamble or even rent a car, he will soon be a decision maker voting on legislation concerning issues he can’t quite benefit from just yet.
First on his agenda, Hay- wood said he wants to amend a law that mandates high school students to pass a civics exam. He also wants to also propose that all 18- year-olds are required to reg- ister to vote.
A town hall meeting held in Dallas to discuss the death and honor the life of Botham Jean on his 27th birthday, went left fast after outraged protestors instead took the D.A. to task about the investigation.
On Saturday, the meeting turned into a volcanic debate with pointed anger toward Dallas District Attorney Faith Johnson as activists demanded to know why the former police officer Amber Guyger, who shot and killed Jean, has only been charged with manslaughter.
“They can start with one charge, but when we get ready to present it to the grand jury we’re going to ex- plain the loss to them and let them know what it is and what it’s not,” Johnson said to the crowd.
Melissa Perry, a protes- tor reportedly called for more charges to be rendered now.
“No, I’m not satisfied until we get it sent to a grand jury and with a murder charge. And do it now before election
Dr. Pamela Grayson raises her fist as "Young King" Solomon Grayson, 6, peeks behind her sign during a Mothers Against Police Brutality candlelight vigil for Botham Jean at the Jack Evans Police Headquarters on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, in Dallas.
H&M Under Fire After Black
day otherwise, vote her ass out of office,” Perry said.
Jean’s mother, Alyson Jean, was not present but via phone from St. Lucia told re- porters she would continue the fight on Jean’s behalf.
“I also know he is satisfied that we are fighting on his be- half because that is what he stood for,” she said.
Others in attendance in- cluded Texas State Senator Royce West, along with the
DA, attorneys, clergy and ac- tivists.
“The powers that be, the people who are responsible for the decision making, asked the questions directly– I think they provided some necessary clarity, but they also got to see that their con- stituents are livid about not only this case but about the state of justice in Dallas County,” said Lee Merritt, the Jean family’s attorney.
Woman Falsely Accused Of
Stealing Details Humiliating
Police Reportedly Shoot Black Man In The Back More Than A Dozen Times In City Plagued By Racial Profiling
Police Harassment
After propping a little black boy in a picture with a hoodie emblazoned with “Coolest Monkey in the Jun- gle,” on it, you’d think the re- tail giant H&M would have some chill or would have led an implicit bias training of some sort for its employees.
But here we are, with a Black woman in Pembroke Pines, Florida hurt after re- porting that she shopped at the H&M store at Pembroke Lakes Mall and was racially profiled, CBS News reports.
“It was a black thing. Pe- riod. I wasn’t the only person in there. Why me?” asked Daniela Taylor, after get- ting stopped by officers and accused of stealing on Tues- day.
Taylor said she was in the store to return a pair of earrings. Then she saw an- other pair that she liked and decided to purchase those. But Taylor said when she walked out of the store she was accosted by two loss pre- vention officers who embar- rassed her in front of people and claimed that she was a thief.
DANIELA TAYLOR
“He’s like, ‘That’s it. You’re going to jail.’ I’m like, ‘but for what?’” asked Tay- lor.
“I’m cursing because ob- viously I have already told him I didn’t do anything. I said, ‘you should understand where I’m coming from. If you were on the other end of the table, you should under- stand how they do us these days.’ He said, ‘Don’t pull the race card on me,’” said Tay- lor.
After security footage re- vealed that Taylor in fact did not steal as she said, she was let go.
But she wants the officers held accountable.
Protesters were under- standably questioning the of- ficial version of a deadly police-involved shooting of an African-American man in Portland, Oregon, because of the department’s record with Black people.
Members of the group, Don’t Shoot Portland gath- ered at the scene of the shooting in downtown Port- land on Sunday, hours after the police said they shot and killed an armed suspect early in the morning, KATU-TV reported.
The slain man was identi- fied on social media as 27- year-old Patrick Kimmons, who was report- edly a father of three young children. This latest police killing came against the backdrop of complaints about racial profiling and po- lice killings of Black men in a city that’s just 6 percent African-American.
“He was a child, and he was a father, and he was a
PATRICK KIMMONS
brother, and he was a son,” Teressa Raiford, a Don’t Shoot Portland organizer, said about Kimmons.
Some stories circulating on social claimed that the po- lice shot Kimmons in the back up to 15 times.
The Portland Police Bu- reau declined to immediately identify the suspect or offi- cers involved in the shooting that occurred shortly after 3 a.m.
There were no known
videos to contradict the po- lice version of exactly what happened. Patrol officers were responding to gunfire when they “engaged” some- one whom the police fatally shot, according to officials. The man killed by police had been involved in a shooting that left two other men wounded. Investigators said they recovered a gun at the scene.
Sunday was the third Portland police shooting this year, and the second one to end with a suspect dead, ac- cording to the newspaper. In June, two Portland State University campus officers also shot and killed a Black Navy veteran who was trying to break up a fight outside a downtown bar.
Kimmons’ mother launched a GoFundMe cam- paign to raise money for his funeral and other expenses. The campaign raised nearly $4,000 by Monday after- noon.
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