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Arkansas Police Kills Teen At Youth Shelter
NAACP Issues Travel Advisory Warning For Missouri
The NAACP moved for- ward with a travel advisory warning people to be careful while in Missouri because of a danger that civil rights won't be respected.
Missouri NAACP President Rod Chapel said last Thurs- day that national delegates voted the day before to adopt the advisory, which was put in place at a statewide level in June. Chapel said it's up for ratification by the national board in October.
It cites legislation signed by Gov. Eric Greitens that will make it more difficult to sue
A Blue Springs, Mo., business owner found the words die N....er spray painted on his window in May.
for housing or employment discrimination.
According to the Kansas City Star, the advisory also cites other issues, including a
recent attorney general's re- port that shows black Missouri drivers last year were 75 per- cent more likely to be stopped than whites.
MARION, AR —- A 16-year- old boy was recently shot and killed by Arkansas police out- side of an emergency shelter for juveniles, but details are few about the shooting that sparked an outcry against po- lice violence
Aries Clark was shot last Tuesday [around 7 p.m.] and died a day later after the inci- dent outside East Arkansas Youth Services [a nonprofit that ‘provides positive alterna- tives to institutionalization’ for at-risk children according to its website] in Marion, the Daily Mail reports.
Officers opened fire shortly after arriving at the facility. No one has said why police were called or whether they felt en- dangered. Clark’s parents said that doctors told them that their son was shot in the back and the back of his head.
Vicky Clark, the teen’s mother, said her son ended up at the shelter for being “disrup-
Two young, ambitious women of Spelman College died in two separate accidents, one of which has seen another former Spelman student charged in the death.
Rising senior Erica Lanier, of Stone Mountain, Ga., died after a car accident Wednes- day.
The driver, Alexis Sims, was charged with first-degree vehicular homicide, and DUI. Police report that Sims was speeding, lost control and crashed into a utility pole and fence. Sims remains hospital- ized.
Sims graduated from Spel- man two years ago and she and Lanier were best friends.
Across the world, 19-year- old Princess Yates died in a car wreck on July 21 in Mon- rovia, Liberia. Yates had withdrawn from Spelman
Aries Clark, 16, was shot in the back and the back of the head, according to his mother.
tive” at home, reports Memphis news station WMC reports. She “never expected not to see [her] son again,” the report says.
Police have not said why po- lice were called to the shelter, but a resident said Clark had been involved in an argument before cops came to the scene. News of the shooting quickly spread around Marion, and several social media videos of the incident are circulating.
Two Marion officers were placed on paid administrative leave until the investigation ends.
Spelman students, Princess Yates and Erica Lanier both died in car accidents.
where she had been pursuing a double-major in engineering and environmental science, and was in the country to cel- ebrate her grandmother’s 90th birthday.
Her death was also doubly heartbreaking in that accord- ing to several eyewitnesses, the Staten Island, N.Y., native was refused treatment at the hospital because “she had no money on her.”
QUEENS, NY — A de- ranged man dressed in preacher’s flowing white robes plowed into six people, criti- cally injuring two — before driving into a pond on Satur- day evening.
“Hallelujah!! Praise Jesus!” said the unidentified driver, after emerging from a Ford Econoline van, with the words “Psalm 24” and “Psalm 27” written on the back.
According to the New York Daily News, the odd scene un- folded about 7:30 p.m. when the van suddenly accelerated to a high speed in Queens, N.Y., and hit two teenagers, an 18-
Two people are in critical condition after this man ran over them, then jumps out van quoting scripture.
year-old man and 19-year-old woman crossing the street.
The van then sideswiped a
car, crushing its back end, and ran over another pedestrian before crashing into the pond inside Brookville Park.
The driver emerged from the water with his hands in the air, robes flowing, gold chain on, mumbling to himself, accord- ing to witnesses.
The two teens are in critical condition and another victim is in stable condition, according to police.
Three others were in se- rious condition.
The driver was also taken to Jamaica Hospital for an evalu- ation and charges were pend- ing, according to police
Deranged Man Wearing Preacher Robe Runs Over 6 People; Runs Into Pond
Two Spelman Students Die Tragically In Separate Car Accidents Within Days Of Each Other
Oakland Gives Weed Convicts Opportunity To Open Marijuana Businesses As Reparations
As reparations for the war on drugs, a number of felons who were imprisoned for charges pertaining to mari- juana will reportedly have the opportunity to open legal weed businesses in the Oakland area, the National Post re- ports.
The Oakland city council unanimously approved its new initiative, the Equity Permit Program, last month. The new program will reportedly issue 50 percent of all licenses for medical marijuana facilities
Felons in Oakland will get an opportunity to open weed shops in their neighborhood.
to previous felons and resi- dents of six neighborhoods that police excessively targeted for drug arrests, the Post re- ports.
“Communities of colour have been negatively and dis- proportionately impacted by disparate enforcement of cannabis laws,” and ordinance filed by the Oakland city coun- cil reads.
Distributing medical mari- juana has been legal in the state of California since 1996. Under the new program, all felons and residents must undergo a rigorous application process, Greg Minor, assis- tant to Oakland’s city adminis- trator, said.
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