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U.S. NEWS Thursday 27 July 2017

Center called ‘powerful first step’ as Ferguson still mends

By JIM SALTER service. It also will house of-
Associated Press fices for the Salvation Army,
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The Lutheran Hope Center and
National Urban League the University of Missouri Ex-
president helped christen tension Service.
a new job training and ed- At Wednesday’s opening
ucation center in Ferguson ceremony, Ferguson City
on Wednesday, calling the Councilman Wesley Bell
site a “powerful first step” in said building it at the for-
helping the St. Louis suburb mer QuikTrip site was sym-
that’s still mending from bolic of how Ferguson is
unrest over the fatal police rising.
shooting of Michael Brown “This building has to mean
nearly three years ago. something,” said Bell, a
On the same day the Ur- black man elected after
ban League kicked off its Brown’s death. “It has to
national conference in represent something.”
St. Louis, Marc Morial said The store was torched the
much work remains even night after Brown’s death,
with the arrival of the $3 as a peaceful candle-
million center, built on the light vigil was occurring at
property where a QuikTrip the shooting site less than
convenience store was a mile away. Brown had
burned during rioting after gotten into a scuffle with
a white officer killed the Michael Brown Sr. stands as an honor guard enters during the dedication of a new community then-officer Darren Wilson
18-year-old Brown, who empowerment center Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in Ferguson, Mo. The $3-million Ferguson Com- after Wilson told Brown
was black and unarmed, munity Empowerment Center was built on the property where a QuikTrip convenience store was and a friend to get out of
in August 2014. burned during rioting after a white officer fatally shot Michael Brown nearly three years ago. the street where they were
(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Oklahoma-based QuikTrip walking. Wilson said that
demolished the building when he shot Brown, the
and donated the prop- Several companies and or- tributed $1.4 million. Morial guson Community Empow- 18-year-old was moving
erty to the Urban League, ganizations donated mon- said the center is already erment Center is the Urban menacingly toward him.
which announced plans ey to build it, including the paid for. League’s Save Our Sons Some witnesses had said
for the center in July 2015. Salvation Army, which con- The centerpiece of the Fer- job training and placement Brown was surrendering. q
New York eyes ‘textalyzer’ to bust drivers using phones

By DAVID KLEPPER “Despite laws to ban cell- “textalyzer” because of its lebrite, the Israel-based according to Rainey Reit-
Associated Press phone use while driving, similarity to the Breatha- tech company developing man, of the Electronic Fron-
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Police some motorists still continue lyzer, which is used to iden- the device. tier Foundation, a nonprofit
in New York state may soon to insist on texting behind tify drunk drivers. Once Digital privacy and civil lib- organization that advo-
have a high-tech way of the wheel — placing them- plugged into a person’s erties groups already have cates for civil liberties when
catching texting drivers: a selves and others at sub- phone for about a minute, questioned whether the it comes to digital technol-
device known as a “texta- stantial risk,” Cuomo said in it will indicate whether a technology’s use would vi- ogy.
lyzer” that allows an officer a statement first reported motorist was texting, email- olate personal privacy, not- “I am extremely nervous
to quickly check if a phone by The Associated Press. ing, surfing the web or ing that police can already about handling a cell-
has been in use before a “This review will examine otherwise using his or her obtain search warrants if phone to a law enforce-
crash. the effectiveness of using cellphone before a serious they believe information on ment officer and allowing
Democratic Gov. Andrew this new emerging technol- crash. The textalyzer would a private phone could be them in any way to foren-
Cuomo on Wednesday di- ogy to crack down on this not access actual informa- useful in a prosecution. sically analyze it,” she said.
rected the Governor’s Traf- reckless behavior and thor- tion on the phone, such as Many security experts are “This is a technology that is
fic Safety Committee to ex- oughly evaluate its implica- pictures, personal emails or skeptical when it comes to incredibly problematic and
amine the technology, as tions to ensure we protect web browsing history. promises that the textalyzer at the same time is unnec-
well as the questions about the safety and privacy of The “textalyzer” is still some would only access informa- essary. There are already
privacy and civil liberties its New Yorkers.” months away from being tion about phone usage, legal avenues for a police
use would raise. The device is called the ready, according to Cel- and not personal material, officer.”q