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Law Enforcement Civic Engagement And Safety Day
Forecasters Keeps Eye On Tropical Storm Erika
On Saturday, August 29, 2015 County and City elected officials with service agencies will greet the interest of their constituents at the All People’s Life Center for the 2015 Civic Engagement and Law Enforce- ment and Safety Day event.
For the fifth year, the Hills- borough County Sheriff’s Black Advisory Council has organized a community-based event to bring the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office closer to the community for education infor- mation and empowerment.
However, SBAC event Co- Chairperson, James Cole says the NAACP is really what will make this year special. “Politi- cal Action Chair Yvette Lewis of the NAACP really had an idea that could have stood alone.”, said Cole. Lewis wanted a day for political officials and agencies to be accessible to the community. Early this summer Cole and Co-Chair Lewis chose to combine ideas and re- sources to move the community in one direction for empower- ment.
“We both had our eyes on the August 29th date following the start of school,” said Lewis. However, Cole agreed that more organizations should col- laborate as oppose to compete for community attention. As the NAACP secured the All Peo- ple’s Life Center, the challenges facing a large event were imme- diately solved. “They have room for our five workshops, HCSO demonstrations and dis- plays as well as the meet and greet tables for the elected offi- cials,” said Lewis.
Cole who is also the host of the Saturday talk show Cole and the Cure on WTMP will broadcast live at this event. No
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show topic is more important than getting information to the community said, Clint Paris, Esq., who will be presenting a workshop called Legal and the Law. Paris, said, “Citizens at- tending our workshop will be able to ask questions and learn how to navigate the legal waters of justice.”
Parenting, Safety, Youth Is- sues and a look at the Sheriff’s Black Advisory model are work- shop topics along with health screening scheduled for the event.
City officials, county offi- cials, government agencies, HCSO, TPD and TFD were no- tified along with federal agen- cies. “Last year the Tampa Fire and Rescue stole the show with the obstacle course for youth, that demonstrated maneuvers used by or real heroes during rescue,” said Cole.
The Civic Engagement and Law Enforcement and Safety event will take place from 9:00 a.m.-2:00p.m.attheAllPeo- ple’s Life Center located at 6105 E Sligh Ave, Tampa, FL 33617. Extra parking will be available at King High School. The event is free with scheduled door prizes and music.
The National Hurricane Center is currently tracking Tropical Storm Erika, the fifth named storm of the 2015 hurricane season. Cur- rently, the storm’s path takes it east of Florida, but the cone of uncertainty covers the majority of the state.
Although the estimated path of Tropical Storm Erika appears to bypass Florida, forecast- ers warn that residents show “be prepared” be- cause the prediction has an error of margin that covers several hundred miles.
If the storm continues on its eastern trek, the Tampa Bay Area would be on the drier side of it. The area could see an increase in showers early next week.
However, forecasters are expecting the storm to strengthen into a hurricane as it feeds off the warmer Caribbean waters.
Meteorologists expect the storm to move near
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Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and north of the Dominican Republic by Friday. It is expected to be near South Florida by Monday morning.
Saturday, August 29, will mark the 10th an- niversary of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina made its second landfall in Louisiana and proved to be one of the deadliest in terms of loss of life, and the most costly in history.
Amelia Boynton Robinson, Civil Rights Icon, Dies At 104
Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson, who went from being beaten on a bridge in Selma, Ala., in 1965 to being pushed across the bridge in a wheelchair alongside the president of the United States, has died at age 104.
Her daughter, Germaine Bowser, said Mrs. Boyn- ton Robinson died Wednes- day morning. She had been hospitalized after suffering several strokes.
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she and other activists were attacked by state troopers as they tried to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Along with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., Mrs. Boyn- ton Robinson held hands with President Barack Obama as the men walked across the bridge this past March, marking the 50th an- niversary of the march in Selma.
Mrs. Boynton Robin- son also made history in 1964 when she became the first African American to run for Congress in Alabama.
A native of Savannah,
Georgia, Mrs. Boynton that came to be known as
who took part in the event Robinson was a pioneer in “Bloody Sunday,” when
the voting rights movement
Gunman Posts Social Media Message After Murdering News Reporter And Cameraman
RONOAKE, VA --- A former TV news reporter fatally shot two former colleagues Wednes- day morning during a live broadcast — and then posted his own videos of the killings on social media.
The shooter, Vester Lee Flanagan II — who went by Bryce Williams on air — fa- tally shot himself shortly before noon Wednesday after a five- hour manhunt, police said.
Before that, he ranted about the victims on Twitter and up- loaded a horrifying video he filmed of the shooting.
He accused the victims — reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27 — of racial prejudice, allud- ing to complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportu- nity Commission and the sta- tion’s human resources department."We heard scream- ing, and then we heard noth- ing," general manager Jeff Marks said on air while an- nouncing the deaths of reporter Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, 27.
In the news clip, which aired around 6:45 a.m., Parker doing a live interview. As they talk, about seven shots ring out. Parker and Gard- ner scream and take cover as Ward drops the camera.
A man standing near the two women, dressed in dark clothing and holding a gun, is briefly seen in the news clip. He
Vester L. Flanagan, II a.k.a. Bryce Williams ....former news anchor
turned murderer
calmly steps away from the scene before the video cuts away.
The video then cuts to a stunned reporter in the WDBJ newsroom, who tries to quickly carry on with a broadcast.
Williams was a former WDBJ reporter who was fired about two years ago. Station manager Marks, speaking on air hours after the shooting, said Williams was "an unhappy man" who "quickly gathered a reputation of someone who was difficult to work with."He was fired after "many incidents of his anger coming to the fore" and had to be escorted out of the building by police, Marks said. Shortly after that, Williams filed an EEOC com- plaint against the station.
Hours into the manhunt for the shooter, Williams tweeted his rant against his victims and posted his video of the shooting to Twitter and Facebook. In the
BOAZ, AL - An Alabama cheerleading coach quit his post after showing up to practice wearing a T- shirt emblazoned with "The Original Boys in the Hood," under an image of a hooded KKK member and a burning cross.
Brian McCracken,
the team's assistant vice president, wore the offend- ing shirt to a North Ala- bama Youth Football & Cheerleading League prac- tice in Boaz.
His friend, Brian Mc- Dowell, accompanied him, wearing a "White Pride" shirt. Both men said their attire was a joke.
Brian McCracken and Brian Mc- Dowell ...wearing t-shirts that say the ‘original boys in the hood’ and ‘white pride’.
Alison Parker and Adam Ward ....news reporter and cameraman
Alabama Cheerleading Coach Resigns After Wearing Racist T-Shirt
video, he appears to approach his three victims, standing next to them for nearly a minute and then fired more than a dozen times. He whispers “Bitch” after pointing the gun at Parker. In tweets days before the shooting, Williams posted pictures of himself as a child, teenager and former TV an- chor. He also alluded to a mod- eling career and being raised as a Jehovah’s Witness. He also faxed a message to ABC News saying: "I've been a human powder keg for a while....just waiting to go BOOM!
Franklin County Sheriff Bill Overton said, "Many of you have gotten a lot of the cor- respondence, emails that had been sent out. It's obvious that ... this gentleman was disturbed in some way of the way things had transpired," and that "at some point in his life, things spiraled out of control," Over- ton said.
Volunteer coach Kayleigh Tipton said she lost her position after complaining about the men's shirts. She complained to Commis- sioner Kenny Jones, she said.
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