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Justice System In Georgia County Led By All-Black Women
SOUTH FULTON COUNTY, GA —— One of the newest cities in Georgia is making history as the first to ever have its whole criminal justice system run by black women.
Indeed, the year-old City of South Fulton — now the fifth largest in the state — has a black female chief of police (Sheila Rogers), chief judge (Tiffany Carter Sellers), court administrator (Lake- siya Cofield), chief court clerk (Ramona Howard), city solicitor (LaDawn Jones) and city public de- fender (Viveca Famber Powell). Many of these women are the inaugural ap- pointees of these roles, ac- cording to the Atlanta Voice.
“Our goal is to ensure jus-
Chief of police (Sheila Rogers), chief judge (Tiffany Carter Sellers), court adminis- trator (Lakesiya Cofield), chief court clerk (Ramona Howard), city solicitor (LaDawn Jones) and city public defender (Viveca Famber Powell).
tice for everyone,” says Judge Sellers. “However, as African American women we are sen- sitive to the history of criminal justice in our country. We want to be an example of how to do things right.”
Racist Messages Tweeted From Buffalo Wild Wings Site
Ex-School Dean Sentenced To 26 Years For Attempting To Kill Student
BOSTON, MA —-A Boston high school dean and anti-vio- lence advocate known by stu- dents as “Rev” for his pastor-like demeanor was sen- tenced Friday to 26 years in prison for assault and other charges.
Shaun Harrison, 58, al- legedly boasted to students of his gang ties, drugs and guns. He recruited one of them, a 17- year-old student from a broken home, to deal marijuana in school, authorities said.
But after a dispute over slumping sales, Harrison shot the teen in the back of the head with a .380 pistol as they walked on a snowy city street in 2015 and left him for dead, prosecutors said.
Shaun Harrison was sen- tenced to 26 years for shooting a student he allegedly re- cruited to sell drugs at the school where he worked.
Except Luis Rodriguez didn’t die. He dragged himself up and flagged down a passing car. In the hospital, Ro- driguez uttered the name of his would-be killer: “Rev.”
Harrison, now 58,was sen- tenced Friday to up to 26 years in prison for attempting to kill a student he tapped to deal drugs for him.
“You professed to be a man of religion, you promote your- self as one who can mentor troubled youth ... and yet you violated their safety by bring- ing drugs and violence to them,” Judge Christopher Muse said.
Harrison arrived at Eng- lish High in Boston in January 2015, just two months before his arrest and after stints at other city public schools over about five years. He had been a community organizer and youth minister in Boston for decades.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — After having their Twitter ac- count hacked with a flurry of racist tweets sent as a result, officials from Buffalo Wild Wings are apologizing to the public.
“We’re sorry,” the Min- neapolis-based company wrote in a statement, adding “the awful posts... obviously did not come from us.”
They also said that they had been “in touch with our Twitter representatives and will pursue the appropriate action against the individuals involved.”
The tweets in question were sent on Friday (June 1) to their nearly 700,000 fol- lowers that included “the N- word, a crude comment about a “secret recipe” ingre-
dientattherestaurantandan offensive swipe at popular US
food chain Wendy’s,” BBC News reported.
Uber Driver Kills Passenger
DENVER, CO — It seems that Uber has another crisis on its hands. That’s because in Denver, one of its drivers shot and killed a passenger. It hap- pened around 3 a.m. on Friday morning as the vehicle passed over the University Boulevard bridge and forced the closure of southbound Interstate 25 for more than five hours.
Denver police identified the suspect as Michael Andre Hancock, 29, who told a wit- ness that he shot his customer, Hyun Kim, several times in self-defense after being at- tacked while on the high- way. The shooting is being treated as a homicide.
His father, also named Michael Hancock, described his son as a good guy.
“He’s a Christian kid and he’s
Michael Hancock killed his passenger.
all about making the world a better place,” Hancock’s fa- ther told KDVR.
Hancock said his son is a great husband and father.
Uber has a policy that pro- hibits its drivers from carrying firearms while driving passen- gers.
Teen Who Beat Up School Aide Released From Jail
MINNEAPOLIS, MN —- A Minnesota student who vi- ciously beat a Black teacher’s assistant was released without bail Thursday after a court hearing.
Corey David Burfield, 18, of St. Paul, was charged with one count of first-degree as- sault and one count of third- degree assault in the violent beating of school aide Mo- hammed Dukuly on Tues- day (May 22) at Harrison Education Center, an alterna- tive high school in Minneapo- lis.
Dukuly made a dramatic recovery Thursday, no longer in need of life support, sitting up in his hospital bed and smil- ing two days after he was beaten unconscious by Bur-
Corey Burfield was released from jail by the judge, although the school aide, Mohammed Dukuly had to initially be put on life- support.
field.
District Judge William
Koch determined that Bur- field, who is white, was not a flight risk during the student’s appearance in Hennepin County District Court. Bur-
field was allowed to walk, only having to submit to electronic home monitoring and keeping away from Dukuly.
The student also is required to meet with a mental health professional.
Sears Holdings Closing 72 Stores Which Include K-Mart Stores By September
Sears Holdings said Thurs- day it will be shuttering 72 more stores in 2018 and has identified 100 unprofitable lo- cations in total that it plans to close over time.
The closings include 15 Kmart stores and 48 Sears stores, all of which are expected to be closed by early Septem- ber. A Sears spokesman de- clined to comment on the number of associates impacted by the news.
This is in addition to the 64 Kmart stores and 39 Sears stores that have already shut down this year. The company will end 2018 with fewer than 1,000 locations spread across
the U. S. altogether.
In Tampa, the K-Mart on
Busch Blvd. near 56th and the Sears in Citrus Park Mall will close.
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