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Jacksonville Elementary Teacher That Called Black Students ‘Rats’ May Face Punishment
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Punishment could be coming for a Florida teacher accused of calling elementary school students "rats" that could "in- fest the class" and saying "that’s why their race is either dead or in jail."
The teacher at Carter G. Woodson Elementary School, Jordan Cataldo, made the remarks in May, as a group of children attempted to re- enter her classroom, and of- ficials found enough evidence to substantiate further action, the school district said.
Duval County Public Schools said it will "take ap- propriate action in accor- dance with the collective bargaining agreement when school resumes for the 2017- 2018 school year.”
Fourth grade teacher, Jor- dan Cataldo, called a group of Black students ‘rats’ that could infest the class, when they at- tempted to come back into her class.
Sword Of Civil War Commander To Go On Display
MASSACHUSETTS —-The sword that belonged to the commanding officer of the first all-Black regiment raised in the North during the U.S. Civil War has been recovered after being lost to history for more than 150 years.
The British-made sword carried into battle by Col. Robert Gould Shaw was stolen after he was killed dur- ing the 54th Massachusetts Voluntary Infantry's doomed attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in 1863, a battle portrayed in the 1989 Oscar- winning movie "Glory."
It was found recently in the home of one of Shaw's dis- tant relatives and is sched- uled to go on display at the Massachusetts Historical So-
The sword of Civil War Col. Robert Shaw was found in the home of a distant relative.
ciety on Tuesday, the an- niversary of his death.
Society President Dennis Fiori called it the "holy grail of Civil War swords.”
The weapon's where- abouts was one of the war's great mysteries.
After Shaw - who, like all officers in black units, was
white - was killed, his body was stripped of clothing and belongings by Confederate soldiers.
The sword was recovered about two years later from a Confederate officer shortly after the war ended and re- turned to his parents in Boston.
Idaho TV Station Uses Black Lives Matter Activist’s Photo In Bank Robbery Story
A local CBS news affiliate in Idaho has issued a public apology to Black Lives Matter activist and educator DeRay McKesson after the station used a photo of McKesson in an unrelated story about a bank robbery.
Screenshots of tweets that the news station KBOI sent on Friday night showed an image of McKesson under- neath the headline, "Would- be robber arrives early at banks to find doors locked."
The accompanying image of McKesson, an activist and former Baltimore may- oral candidate, was taken during a July 2016 protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
McKesson shared the er- roneous tweet with the cap-
BLM activist DeRay McKesson’s photo was used in a bank rob- bery story.
tion: "I haven't been any- where near a bank robbery. FYI."
KBOI later apologized in a tweet: "We messed up. We
mistakenly tweeted a photo of @deray with an unrelated story link about a bank rob- bery. We at KBOI are very sorry.”
Tulsa Police Officer Acquitted Of Fatally Shooting Terence Crutcher, Resigns
TULSA, OK -- A white Oklahoma police officer re- cently acquitted of fatally shooting an unarmed Black man submitted her resigna- tion from the Tulsa police de- partment Friday.
Officer Betty Shelby's resignation is effective Aug. 3, according to a news release from the Tulsa branch of a
national police union.
“Since being reinstated, I
have found that sitting be- hind a desk, isolated from all my fellow officers and the cit- izens of Tulsa, is just not for me,” Shelby wrote in a state- ment released by a local po- lice union, according to CNN. “As I have stated before, the incident with Terence
Crutcher was a tragedy for everyone involved, and I am sorry he lost his life,” she wrote.
Tulsa police spokesman Sgt. Shane Tuell said it's not clear whether the police chief has received Shelby's letter, adding that he couldn't comment until that docu- ment is in hand.
6 Baltimore Teens Create Text Messaging Service To Deal With Opioids Epidemic
Baltimore high school teens are the creators of Bad Batch Alert.
BALTIMORE, MD — Opi- oid addiction has reached epi- demic levels. This year, in the city of Baltimore, Gov. Larry Hogan labeled the opioid epidemic an emer- gency.
With heroin at the helm of this crisis, six Baltimore teenagers are taking matters into their own hands in re- sponse to this serious call to action.
The high school students have been spending their Sat- urdays at the offices of Code in Schools, a computer sci- ence education nonprofit in North Baltimore, building a tool using mobile devices to
address part of the city's heroin crisis.
Bad Batch Alert is an anonymous free text messag- ing service aimed at helping those struggling with heroin addiction to stay alive in Bal- timore City. An active user, or a loved one registers with the service to receive text alerts when a lethal batch of tainted heroin may be in their neigh- borhood. With this knowl- edge, dosages can be modified and loved ones can be warned. The service is driven by data from EMS, that is analyzed for OD spikes by an epidemiologist at the Health Department.
Betty Shelby was found ‘not guilty’ in the shooting death of Terence Crutcher in 2016.
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