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City OKs EPD to purchase tasers
Curt’s, city remember local man killed
Police will buy 30 more cameraequipped tasers
20-year-old ETHS graduate fatallly shot last week
By NORA SHELLY
By MARISSA PAGE
City Council approved the Evanston Police Department’s request to purchase additional tasers during Monday’s council meeting, ensuring each officer will be in possession of one while on duty. The decision came after discussion in the Administration and Public Works Committee to allow for city officials to take $60,072.65 from the narcotics seizures reserve fund to purchase an additional 30 tasers equipped with cameras to add to the 19 the department already owns. Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) said an increase in use of tasers on the police force may limit the need for firearm use. “It’s another tool to reduce risk of an accidental gun shooting,” Braithwaite told The Daily. This comes after Evanston Police Chief Richard Eddington mandated that each officer who works in the field be trained in taser use and be required to carry one while on duty. Previous training for taser use had been optional, which limited the amount of tasers the city needed. James Pickett, deputy chief of support services for EPD, said during the committee meeting before council that roughly half of EPD officers are trained in taser use. The money to purchase the tasers will come out of the narcotics seizures reserve fund, which had a balance of more than $250,000 at the end of 2015. The committee also discussed whether the fund, which must be spent on law enforcement processes, could be used to purchase other equipment for the department.
The day after Benjamin “Bo” Bradford-Mandujano passed the test to obtain his food handler certification — the next step in his training at Evanston’s Curt’s Cafe — police discovered the 20-year-old fatally wounded in an alley. Officers responded to shots fired calls last Tuesday night at approximately 9 p.m. They found BradfordMandujano in an alley in the in the 1300 block of Darrow Avenue, just a few blocks from his alma mater Evanston Township High School. He was immediately transported to Evanston Hospital for treatment, but police said he succumbed to his injuries just two hours later. Bradford-Mandujano became a student at Curt’s Cafe in November. The local nonprofit provides job training to at-risk Evanston youth and employs them in a fully-functional restaurant. Karen Smith, district manager for the cafe, said Bradford-Mandujano was shy at first, but eventually gained confidence in the kitchen as well as with the team and customers. “We have staff and a lot of volunteers, and he became close with everybody,” Smith said. “He would always want to give somebody a hug when they came in. … When he comes up to you, you just have to (give him a hug).” Although Bradford-Mandujano had just earned his food handler license, Smith said he had aspirations beyond the cafe. She also said Bradford-Mandujano had an interview lined up with the outreach coordinator at the McGaw YMCA. “His goal was to be a mentor, to advocate for our people and to make their lives better,” Smith said. “We want the senseless killing to stop, and if more people were like him and carry
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FREEDOM RIDER Civil rights activist Diane Nash addresses students about the importance of love and empathy. The former Freedom Rider and co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee spoke to over 100 people at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on Monday.
Civil rights leader speaks at NU By ERICA SNOW
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More than 50 years after coordinating a historic Freedom Riders busing protest, Diane Nash said brotherly love is the key to unifying people for social change. The civil rights activist was the keynote speaker for Northwestern’s programming to commemorate the
life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking to an audience of more than 100 at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Nash stressed the importance of incorporating empathy into nonviolent activism efforts. “People are never the enemy,” Nash said. “Unjust political systems, those are enemies. Attitudes, racism, sexism, ignorance … all of those are enemies. One of the problems with using violence to bring about social change is that you often kill
individuals and leave the oppressive system — or the real problem — untouched.” Nash was a prominent student activist in Nashville while attending Fisk University, and worked with King while she was in her 20s. She helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was part of the Freedom Riders and Southern Christian Leadership » See NASH, page 6
Thumel scholarship reaches nearly $100k By PAIGE LESKIN
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Almost $100,000 in donations have been raised for a scholarship in memory of Northwestern student John Thumel since his death in July. Donations have poured in from family, friends and the NU community for the past six months, Thumel’s father Mike Thumel said, with fundraising culminating in an event Sunday night at Bat 17. The event celebrated the student’s legacy and
love of hockey, with a silent auction of sports memorabilia while the bar’s televisions showed the Chicago Blackhawks beating the St. Louis Blues. The money raised is going toward the newly founded John Thumel Memorial Scholarship Fund, a scholarship set up by the Sigma Chi Foundation that will be awarded each year to a member of NU’s Sigma Chi chapter, of which Thumel was a member. In July, Thumel died from injuries sustained in a south Texas car crash. Thumel, a rising fifth-year McCormick student from Libertyville,
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Illinois, was working as an engineering intern at the time of his death. The scholarship’s board of directors — made up of three current members of Sigma Chi at NU, two former members and Mike Thumel — is receiving applications until Sunday for the scholarship. The award, which will amount in $3,000 in its first year, will be given to a Sigma Chi member who exhibits the three F’s that were important to John Thumel: family, friends and faith, Mike Thumel said. The board will spend the month of February interviewing the approximately 20 applicants, and
name the winner in the spring, he said. And with the money raised Sunday night, the Sigma Chi Foundation will be able to raise the scholarship to $4,000 a year for the next 25 to 30 years, Thumel said. Although the initial fundraising goal started at $25,000, the continual influx of donations has allowed that goal to be quadrupled, he said. “I was overwhelmed by just everyone that was there, the love that was there, the feeling of the impact that
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