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Black-Owned Fish Fry Restaurant With
Black Texas Officer Needs Organ
Transplant After Being Shot
Locations Inside Several Walmarts
In Back During Ambush
Launches Franchise Opportunity
A Black Texas police officer has multiple damaged organs following a shooting at a bar on last Saturday that left another deputy dead.
According to KHOU-TV, Har- ris County Constable Precinct 4 Deputy Darryl Garrett has undergone several surgeries in order for doctors to remove bul- let fragments that damaged some of his organs. Lajah Richardson, the 28-year-old’s fiancée says he’ll need a kidney transplant following having his gallbladder removed.
Garrett was responding to a possible robbery in the parking lot outside of a bar with fellow Deputy Kareem Atkins. KHOU reports that the pair were attempting to arrest a suspect when a second suspect appeared and opened fire with an assault rifle, striking both officers.
A third officer, Jaqaim Barten, 26, heard the shots and rushed to help but was immedi- ately shot and immobilized.
"They were telling him he had to leave from the establishment and it just went left from there.
Now that’s good eatin!’, the tag line for Joe’s Gourmet Fish Fry. This product is a golden light de- licious seafood coating ready for your fish, shrimp, and vegeta- bles. The Joe’s Gourmet brand is a dynamic one with restaurants right inside several Walmart stores across the country. And 2021 will be the golden year for this company as they expand to roll out franchises.
This company has grown from strength to strength, having been featured in Walmart’s na- tional Made in America cam- paign as a supplier.
Co-owner Joe Dowell stated, “During the pandemic, we real- ized just how powerful this con- cept is inside Walmart. It’s a product that people want, and it’s a business that couldn’t be more essential. We are looking forward to sharing this level of opportunity with other families.”
JOE’S GOURMET FISH FRY OWNERS
DEPUTY DARRYL GARRETT
He got upset," Richardson told the news station.
Atkins, 30, died from the gunshot wound. He had recently returned from paternity leave and had served at the precinct since January 2019. He leaves behind his wife and child.
Because Garrett is in critical condition, Richardson says she hasn’t told him one of his best friends is dead and doesn’t know how she’s going to tell him.
Joe’s Gourmet’s mission is to not keep the secret of success to themselves but instead offer an opportunity to those who will take it to change their life on purpose with one of their fran- chises.
These franchises will remain inside Walmarts across the country, and the offer is set up to support each qualifying entre-
preneur. The company will pro- vide support for operations and marketing as well as ongoing business development.
To take advantage of this life- changing opportunity, you have to be driven, business-savvy, and ready to win.
Visit their website at Joes- GourmetFranchise.com for more information.
Supreme Court Sides With Police In Pair Of 'Qualified Immunity' Cases
Report: Wisconsin Has Highest
The Supreme Court last Monday sided with law en- forcement in a pair of cases that implicated “qualified im- munity,” the controversial legal doctrine that gives police broad protection from law- suits.
In a pair of unsigned sum- mary rulings issued without noted dissent, the justices re- versed two federal appeals courts that had permitted ex- cessive force lawsuits to pro- ceed against officers in separate cases arising from California and Oklahoma.
The justices ruled the offi- cers should be granted quali- fied immunity, which shields
government officials from lia- bility unless it is proven they violated a “clearly established” right, a difficult legal hurdle. Both lawsuits dealt with police responses to an emergency 911 call.
The California case involved a man wielding a chainsaw who had threatened his girl- friend and her two minor chil- dren, forcing them to barricade themselves inside a room, according to the 911 call.
When Union City police confronted the suspect, they noticed a knife in his pocket. Officer Daniel Rivas-Ville- gas put his knee on the sus-
pect’s back, near the pocket that contained the knife, for a period of eight seconds, as an- other officer placed the sus- pect under arrest.
The suspect sued Rivas- Villegas for excessive force. A federal district judge ruled for the officer, prompting an ap- peal by the suspect, Ramon Cortesluna.
The San Francisco-based U. S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reversed the district court's ruling, finding that the officer was not entitled to qualified immunity because "existing precedent put him on notice that his conduct constituted excessive force.”
Black Incarceration Rate In U. S.
Wisconsin has a Black incar- ceration rate that is the highest in the nation and twice as high as the national average, accord- ing to a new report.
Last week, The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D. C.- based research organization that advocates for the reduction of incarceration in the U. S., re- leased the report, which also re- vealed that one in 36 African American adults in the state are currently in prison. By compari- son, the study also says that na- tionwide, one in 81 Black adults per 100,000 is serving time in a state prison.
Despite Black people making up only 6 percent of the state’s population, they make up 42 percent of Wisconsin’s prison population and are incarcerated at 12 times the rate of white peo- ple, the report finds.
Additionally, Latino individu- als are jailed at more than twice the rate of white people in Wis- consin, which is also more than the national average of 1.3 Latino people for every white person.
Clarence Nicholas, presi- dent of Milwaukee’s NAACP chapter says the numbers reflect centuries of systemic racism which has created disadvantages
in housing, education, employ- ment and more. He also said he was “disheartened but not sur- prised,” by the report’s findings, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
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