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Five victims to sue NYPD after bloody weekend at Family Day event
After a Black woman said an NYPD officer hit her in the head and knocked her down at the Marcy Houses Family Day event over the weekend in Brooklyn, four other people have now stepped forward and said they plan to sue the embattled police organization for battery.
—Woman says Brooklyn cops knocked her down while trying to record a relative’s arrest—
Five alleged victims have stepped forward with shocking claims of how the NYPD allegedly battered them and left them brutalized in several violent confrontations.
As previously reported, Janay Graham said she is planning to sue cops who she says assaulted her by knocking her down and hitting her in the head so hard, it opened a gash that required five staples. Grahams said she was trying to record the arrest of her nephew by police.
And now four others say they were similarly assaulted by police and have filed notices of claim, The NY Daily News reports.
Jeffrey Lloyd is the 22-year-old nephew Graham said she was trying to record when cops hit her. Lloyd said on Wednesday that he was victimized and suffers from a torn rotator cuff when cops punched him while he was handcuffed at the housing development.
It was a chaotic scene as cops accosted Lloyd and Graham said after a cop hit her, she fell to the ground as her cell phone continued to record. It appears a cop stands over her on the video and someone screams not to touch the woman lying on the ground.
A video clip also allegedly shows Lawrence Lee, 22, getting pushed to the ground by police and beat at the event at Marcy Houses. He says he has a fractured jaw.
Uniqua Silver, 23, said police allegedly beat her with their baton for having her cell phone out to record them. Silver said she likely will lose one eye because of the brutal assault.
Ron Fernandes, 24, said he suffered an injured jaw during a confrontation with cops.
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White KKK member who sprayed Black teen with hose arrested by police and charged
An East Rochester man who sprayed a Black teenager with a hose during a heated confrontation is actually being held responsible for his racist actions.
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On Wednesday, Glen Nicodemus was arraigned and charged with second-degree harassment, police said, after hosing down a 14-year-old and yelling, “I’m a Ku Klux Klan member” during the confrontation, The NY Daily News reports.
Video surfaced this week of the unidentified East Rochester man spraying a Black teenager with a hose during a heated exhange. The clip shows the run in between them outside of the man’s home.
“You shouldn’t be f*cking with the Klan,” the man can be heard yelling. He then walks toward his yard and grabs a hose as he hurls a racial slur at the boy.
“The video looks like something out of the 1960s,” the boy’s mother Christina Poles told the Daily News.
Poles said her son got into a verbal argument with the man at a nearby park while hanging out with a group of friends when the man started taking pictures of the teens. The altercation then re-ignited as they were walking past his house.
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“He was outside doing it again, flipping them off,” the distraught mother explained previously. “My son said something along the lines of ‘why do you keep flipping us off,’ said some other profanities I wish he hadn’t.”
“You shouldn’t be f*cking with the Klan,” the man can be heard yelling on video. He then walks toward his yard and grabs a hose as he hurls a racial slur at the boy.
The man sprayed the boy as he walked away.
“It was like a scene out of the 60s,” she said. “You don’t see stuff like that in 2019.”
“It never affected me and now I see this video and it’s my son that this is happening to, so it puts things in perspective a little bit,” she concluded.
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Meghan Markle gives behind the scenes look at her new fashion line for charity
On Wednesday, Meghan Markle gave her subjects a behind the scenes look at the royal fashions made for her charitable organization Smart Works.
The Duchess of Sussex collaborated with Misha Nonoo for the line which helps women in need look the part when seeking out jobs and will be released in September, according to People magazine.
Markle was all smiles in her Instagram stories on the @SussexRoyal account which showed her being hands-on looking at photos and greeting models who appeared to be surprised seeing Markle was on scene for a photoshoot.
“Behind the scenes…Sneak peek at the new @SmartworksCharity capsule collection shoot, ahead of the autumn launch” the caption read. And “An initiative supporting the Smart Works collective which will equip women entering the work force with the key work wear essentials they need. Coming soon…”
In September issue Markle was the guest editor of British Vogue, Markle and about her love and allegiance to helping disadvantaged women in such a meaningful way.
“The reason why I was drawn to Smart Works is that it reframed the idea of charity as community … it’s a network of women supporting and empowering other women in their professional pursuits. It’s the enthusiasm of the volunteers, the earnestness of the staff and, most of all, the blushing, bashful and beautiful smile that crosses a client’s face when she sees herself in the mirror, that I have found so profoundly compelling.”
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“To help with this, I asked Marks & Spencer, John Lewis & Partners, Jigsaw and my friends, the designer Mischa Nonoo, if they were willing to design a capsule collection of more classic options for a workwear wardrobe,” she added.
“Taking the idea further, many of the brands agreed to use the one-for-one model: for each item purchased by a customer, one is donated to the charity. Not only does this allow us to be part of each other’s story, it reminds us we are in it together.”
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Kodak Black expected to plead guilty in federal weapons case
Rapper Kodak Black is expected to plead guilty to federal weapons charges.
A hearing is set for Thursday in Miami federal court.
The decision comes months after an original plea of innocence. Prosecutors in May charged the 21-year-old rapper for crimes that involve falsifying information on federal forms to purchase three firearms.
Prosecutors say one of the weapons purchased by Black was found at the scene of a South Florida shooting.
A federal judge denied his request for bond saying he was “danger to the community” based on his lengthy criminal record. Black has remained in a federal detention center in Miami since his arrest.
Authorities say he could face up to eight years in prison.
The rapper, known for singles “ZeZe” and “Roll in Peace,” also faces drug, weapons and sexual assault charges in other states.
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Virginia marks pivotal moment when enslaved Africans arrived
Four hundred years after American slavery and democratic self-rule were born almost simultaneously in what became the state of Virginia, ceremonies will mark the arrival of enslaved Africans in the mid-Atlantic colony and seek healing from the legacy of bondage that still haunts the nation.
Yet the weekend ceremonies in Tidewater Virginia will unfold against the backdrop of rising white nationalism across the country, racist tweets by President Donald Trump, and a lingering scandal surrounding the state’s governor and a blackface photo.
The commemoration will include Sunday’s “Healing Day” on the Chesapeake Bay where two ships traded men and women from what’s now Angola for food and supplies from English colonists in August 1619. A bell will ring for four minutes, while churches across the country are expected to join in.
Virginia’s two U.S. senators and its governor will make remarks at a Saturday ceremony. And a family that traces its bloodline to those first Africans will hold a reflection at its cemetery on Friday.
“This moment means everything to folks like myself who are African American and to the folks on the continent of Africa as well,” said Mary Elliott, curator of American slavery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
“But it should mean something to everybody, regardless of race,” she added, “because it is a moment that defined the nation — what became the nation.”
Though little noted at the time, the arrival of the enslaved Africans in England’s first successful colony is now considered a pivotal moment in American history.
Englishman John Rolfe documented the landing of the first ship, the White Lion, at what was then called Point Comfort. He wrote that leaders of the colony traded provisions to buy the slaves.
From the White Lion and a second ship, English colonists took more than 30 Africans to properties along the James River, including Jamestown.
By that time, more than 500,000 enslaved Africans had already crossed the Atlantic to European colonies, but the Africans in Virginia are widely considered the first in English-controlled North America. They came 12 years after the founding of Jamestown, England’s first permanent colony, and weeks after the first English-style legislature was convened there.
Quentin Kidd, a political science professor at Christopher Newport University, said the commemoration’s timing “speaks to the very contradictions on race that have been part of this nation from its founding.”
“We want to recognize this historic event,” Kidd said. “And at the same time, we have a president who spouts off racist things. And we have a governor who still has not satisfied everybody when it comes to the blackface scandal.”
In February, a picture surfaced from Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page showing a man in blackface next to someone in Ku Klux Klan clothing. Northam denies being in the photo. An investigation failed to determine whether he was or not.
The Democrat will speak Saturday about “the atrocity of slavery” and “the racial inequities that continue to persist,” his press secretary, Alena Yarmosky, wrote in an email.
The 1619 commemoration comes at a time of growing debate over American identity and mounting racial tension, from Washington to the site of a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
It also follows recent racist tweets from Trump. One called on four Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to their home countries, even though three were born in the U.S. Another tweet attacked Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, calling his majority-black Baltimore district a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” where “no human being would want to live.”
Yet Trump also signed into law the “400 Years of African-American History Commission Act,” requiring a panel to develop programs that acknowledge the Africans’ arrival and slavery’s impact.
Among the commission’s members is Terry E. Brown, the first black superintendent of the Fort Monroe National Monument, a former U.S. military base in Hampton that is on the site of the Africans’ 1619 arrival.
“For me, a great nation pays attention and remembers its history no matter how complex it is,” said Brown, who will launch the countdown for the bell ringing on Healing Day.
Brown said the idea of Healing Day is for people from all walks of life “to talk, to laugh, to cry and in some small way to break the insidiousness of racism.”
“I want the nation to walk away knowing that the contributions of Africans and African Americans in this country are so significant that they warrant an anniversary like this,” he said.
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Atlanta HBCU students fear for safety day after 4 shot
The first day of fall semester brought fear to Clark Atlanta University, where students worried about their safety the day after gunshots were fired into a crowd of 200 people outside the school’s library.
Four students were wounded by gunfire after an argument broke out between two groups at a block party shortly after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Atlanta police said. The injured women were all expected to recover.
“It could have been any of us,” Zaire Hammond, a senior from Sacramento, California, said Wednesday along the main walkway across campus. “Stuff like this shouldn’t happen on a school campus.”
The shooter escaped in the chaos outside the library that serves students from Clark Atlanta and other nearby historically black colleges, and no arrests had been made by late Wednesday, Atlanta police said. Police spokesman Carlos Campos released video of a male suspect who authorities want help identifying.
The block party was celebrating the end of new student orientation, and Clark Atlanta student Anais LaFontaine of New York City said Wednesday that she’s concerned about the first-year students.
“I don’t want them to be scared to come back,” she said.
Other students say they want security strengthened on the campus near downtown Atlanta that’s easily accessible to the public.
“Anybody and everybody can walk through here,” said Jada Phillips, a student from Virginia.
School officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding students’ concerns about security.
The gunshots began after an argument broke out between two parties and someone opened fire, investigators said. Video aired by WXIA-TV shows dozens of students running frantically after the gunshots.
“It appears there were two separate groups that were targeting each other, and these people were just caught in the crossfire,” Atlanta police Capt. William Ricker told reporters.
The victims are students at Clark Atlanta and Spelman College, a nearby all-women’s school. Police late Wednesday identified them as Erin Ennis, 18, of Powder Springs, Georgia; Maia Williams-MClaren, 18, of Boston; Elyse Spencer, 18, of Rochester, New York; and Kia Thomas, 19, whose hometown wasn’t available.
Clark Atlanta’s Office of Religious Life announced a prayer vigil for Wednesday evening.
“Evil will not have its way on our campus,” it said on social media.
“We are asking our faculty to be aware and prepared to support those students experiencing the effects of this incident,” Clark Atlanta interim President Lucille Maugé said in a message to students.
Gospel music poured onto the campus through the open doors of the historic Rush Memorial Congregational Church on Wednesday afternoon. In the early 1960s, the small chapel housed the offices of the Atlanta Student Movement, which fought discrimination in the South.
The church now caters to many Clark Atlanta students, and music minister Da’Vid De’Vardelevion, who is also a student, said a revival service is planned for 7 p.m. Monday.
“There’s going to be a lot of students here,” he said. “We’re feet away from the incident, so we’re just trusting that the Lord will protect us in here while we’re having revival.”
Atlanta police routinely work with Clark Atlanta’s police department, as they do with campus police at other schools in the city such as Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
“We’re always very much aware when school is open at the campuses inside the city of Atlanta and we do make a concerted effort to work closely with the campus police, and make sure we properly patrol our areas,” Campos said.
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