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Protesters Demand Answers
Olivia Hooker, First
After Police Gun Down The Wrong
Black Woman In The U. S.
Man In Alabama Mall Shooting
Coast Guard, Has Died
“We regret that our initial media release was not totally accurate, but new evidence in- dicates that it was not,’’ Rec- tor said. “We remain committed to maintaining the integrity of this investigation, helping determine the facts in- volved ...”
While police in Alabama are searching for the gunman, ac- tivists marched outside the mall demanding justice.
“Where is the bodycam footage — why we ain’t seen it yet,” said one protester. “They said that he killed a man and injured somebody else, they called him a suspect, what are they saying now ... where are the cameras?”
Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. was the son of a police officer and a US Army combat engineer who was home for the Thanksgiving holiday when his life was trag- ically snuffed out by police in a mall shooting in Alabama.
Bradford Jr., 21, was run- ning away from the scene of the shooting while holding a handgun inside the Riverchase Galleria in the Birmingham
Undated photo of Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford, Jr.; Protes- tors carry a sign reading “Justice for E.J.” during a protest at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala., Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018
Olivia Hooker, the first Black woman in the U. S. Coast Guard and one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, has died.
Her goddaughter, Janis Porter, told the Associated Press that Hooker died Wednesday at their home in White Plains, New York. She didn’t provide a cause of death.
Hooker was 103.
Before her death, she was considered the likely last sur- vivor of the deadly 1921 Tulsa race riots. Hooker was only six years old on May 31, 1921, when a white mob entered her black middle-class neigh- borhood of Greenwood in
OLIVIA HOOKER
Tulsa and terrorized the com- munity for the next 24 hours.
suburb of Hoover when he was fatally shot by responding offi- cers. He reportedly was in- volved in the altercation that led to the shooting of a 12- year-old girl and an 18-year- old male Thanksgiving night, but he was not the gunman who fired the rounds that wounded the victims, AL.com reported.
Police admit they got it wrong when they shot and killed Bradford and identi- fied him as the gunman, and the hunt is now on for at least
one suspect still at large who may be responsible for the Ala- bama mall shooting.
“New evidence now suggests that while Mr. Bradford may have been involved in some as- pect of the altercation, he likely did not fire the rounds that in- jured the 18-year-old victim,” Hoover police Capt. Gregg Rector told the newspaper.
Police previously told re- porters that Bradford was the shooter of the two victims but the investigation determined otherwise.
Wells Fargo Caught In Another #Bankingwhileblack Scandal
The New Canadian $10 Bill
Wells Fargo is once again being accused of discrimina- tion, after a Black woman al- leged that a white Florida bank teller accused her of fraud, refused to cash her paycheck, and then had her questioned.
Satara Monroe is now suing the bank, which has faced many scandals sur- rounding discrimination (or #BankingWhileBlack) in the past, according to the Miami Herald.
What was supposed to be a quick errand to gain access to her money turned into an hour-long interrogation by police, according to the law- suit filed on Nov. 5.
“I felt targeted,” Monroe told the Herald this week. “There wasn’t anyone else being harassed the way I was harassed.”
“Banking while Black — that was Ms. Monroe’s crime,” Monroe’s attorney, Yechezkel Rodal wrote in the suit. “Ms. Monroe’s story is just another chapter in the tragic tale of the weaponization of 911.”
Monroe had gone to the bank to cash the check and had even presented two formsofIDasshewasnota customer. She went as far as to leave her fingerprint on the check, which was drawn on a Wells Fargo account.
The situation quickly un- raveled.
Featuring An Iconic Black Woman
Activist Is Now In Circulation
Viola Desmond made history when it was an- nounced earlier this year that she would appear on Canada’s new $10 bank note, the first Canadian woman to do so.
Canadian Finance Minis- ter Bill Morneau an- nounced that the businesswoman, mentor and Civil Rights icon would grace the front of the $10 note in the next circulation. Al- though most Canadian cur- rency features the Queen of England, Desmond will be the first Canadian woman by birth or naturalization to be portrayed on a banknote.
The new Canadian bank note that prominently features the portrait of a Black woman activist is finally in circulation.
WELLS FARGO
“The teller then told Ms. Monroe that she could not cash the check and handed it back to her,” Rodal wrote in the suit. The woman allegedly told Monroe that she called the owner of the firm – who was on the check – to verify and said that the owner claimed the check was fraud- ulent. When Monroe called her boss, he told her he never got a call from the bank.
Monroe’s boss then spoke to the teller to plead Mon- roe’s case, but Monroe was still taken to another room where at least four Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies ques- tioned her.
“They asked me who my getaway driver was, who I was working with,” she said. “I just didn’t understand what was going on.”
“The Queen is in good com- pany,” Desmond’s sister Wanda Robson said Mon- day in a ceremony, the Globe
and Mail reports. Robson, 91, was due to make the first purchase with one of the new $10 bills.
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