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Police Arrest Black Man For Loitering At His Own Apartment Complex
After questioning a Black man who appeared to be suspi- ciously inhaling oxygen and using his body to illegally process said oxygen, Indiana police officers consulted the of- ficial police handbook for trumping up charges and ar- rested an Indianapolis man for loitering at the apartment complex where he lives.
According to RTV 6, Jaquon Dean was working on his car in the parking lot of his Indianapolis apartment when he was approached by a uniformed officer with the words “police” prominently af- fixed to his uniform. Dean began filming the confronta- tion.
“How am I loitering if I live on this property?” Dean asked the man identified as James Reynolds. “You don’t know if I’m fixing my car; if I’m wait- ing to leave or not. So why is you walking up saying I’m loi- tering?”
“Do you know the defini- tion of loitering?” Reynolds responded. “Get on Google right now and look up the def- inition of the word.”
When Dean insisted there was no justification for Offi- cer Reynolds asking him for identification, Reynolds re- sponded: “There ain’t no fake security here. Everybody’s po- lice officers,” and insisting that he was not a “fake police offi- cer” as Dean contended.
In the footage, another of- ficer entered the frame and Dean asked for his badge number. The officer complied, answering: “You can film me all you want. I really don’t give a shit.”
In a calm voice, Dean re-
peatedly asked the officers what was the crime that neces- sitated him offering up his identification. The situation escalated and ended with the officers pulling Dean out of his car in the parking lot of his home, and arresting him while warning him to “Stop tensing up!”
Dean was arrested for re- sisting arrest and “refusing to identify,” an Indiana statute that requires a person to give their name, address and date of birth to “a law enforcement officer who has stopped the person for an infraction or or- dinance violation.”
But was Jaquon Dean wrong?
James Reynolds is not an Indianapolis police officer.
As far as Dean’s refusal to identify himself, Indiana law does indeed require people who are reasonably suspected of a crime to identify them- selves. And Indiana’s loitering code does say that refusing to identify oneself gives police reasonable suspicion to believe a suspect may have violated the loitering law.
JAQUON DEAN
3-Year-Old Hero Finds Help For Baby Brother After Mother Killed In Car Accident
CAMDEN, AR — A 3- year-old boy and his 1-year-old baby brother survived a car ac- cident that killed their mother, and left them without anything to eat and drink for about 3 to 4 days. The older brother has been regarded as a hero for being able to escape alone, and find help under challenging circumstances.
On Monday, a boy was found wandering alone with scratches and cuts to his body along the road of Camden, South Arkansas. Authorities immediately launched an in- vestigation and posted the boy’s photo online to possibly identify him. While waiting, they took care of the boy, bathed him and changed his soiled clothes.
Half an hour after posting the boy’s photo on Facebook, relatives reached out and iden- tified him as Kylen Holli- man, a 3-year-old boy who they said had been missing for days with his mother and a 1- year-old brother.
The sheriffs then returned to the area where Kylen was found. Not too far away, they found a wrecked car in a deep ravine unnoticeable from the road. There they found the de- ceased body of his 25-year-old mother, Lisa Holliman out-
Kylen Holliman, 3-year-old survivor and hero from a car acci- dent.
side the car and his 1-year-old brother in the child restraint seat still alive.
The 1-year-old baby was transported to Arkansas Chil- dren’s Hospital to be treated for dehydration and was even- tually released.
Authorities believe Kylen climbed out of the wrecked car through the sunroof or open window and walked through a bushy hill possibly under high temperatures of above 32 de- grees. Additionally, they were left with nothing to eat and drink for 3 to 4 days.
“If it weren’t for him get- ting out of the vehicle, it would
have been a horrible situation and we probably would be looking at three deaths as a re- sult of that accident,” Detec- tive Nathan Greeley of the Ouachita County Sheriff’s Of- fice told People about the inci- dent.
“All I can say is, in the 11 years that I’ve been here, I have never seen something so tragic and amazing at the same time. It’s tragic for the loss of the mother, but it’s nothing short of a miracle that the boy was able to escape. At the end of the day, that boy is the hero who saved his brother,” Gree- ley continued.
Georgia State Tops List For Black Bachelor’s Degrees, Report Says
Atlanta is the place-to-be for diversity and bachelor’s degrees.
For the sixth year in a row, Georgia State University has been named the top school in the nation among not-for-profit schools for award- ing undergraduate degrees to African Ameri- cans, GSU reports.
According to the “Diverse Top 100” list by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, GSU ranks supreme in awarding bachelor’s degrees in bio- logical and biomedical sciences, finance and fi- nancial management services; foreign languages, literature and linguistics; history; marketing; psychology; and social sciences.
The University of Phoenix and Ashford Uni- versity, both for-profit schools, award the most undergraduate degrees to African-Americans.
The school has worked to close the achieve- ment gap based on race, ethnicity or income. According to reports, the university improved its graduation rates by 23 points. Now African-
American students, as well as Hispanic, Asian- American and low-income students, are on par with graduating with the rest of their peers in the overall student body.
“The message here is simple: students’ chances of graduating need not be dependent on their race, ethnicity or income level,” senior vice president for student success Timothy Renick said. “All students can succeed at high rates.”
“Georgia State’s graduate programs attract outstanding students from diverse backgrounds who go on to become leaders in business, aca- demia, as well as government and health sec- tors,” said Lisa Armistead, associate provost for graduate programs. “Diversification of the nation’s professional workforce is a high prior- ity for the institution.”
When it comes to graduate degrees, Webster University in Missouri, ranked number one for African-American students.
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