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WEDNESDAYS • July 13, 2016

The above photo of an unnamed protester at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has become a powerful image of the ongoing struggle between law enforcement and black Americans.

More than 100 people were arrested during a protest outside the city’s police headquarters on Saturday following the death of Alton Sterling, who was shot and killed by police outside a convenience store last week. At least three journalists were arrested, as was prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson.

The woman in the image above, which was taken by Reuters

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photographer Jonathan Bachman, was among those arrested for refusing to leave an area highway.

Emblematic of Tiananmen Square’s infamous and unknown “Tank Man,” neither Reuters or the Associated Press were able to identify the woman, who was later detained.

Bachman told The Atlantic police in riot gear were moving protesters off the Airline Highway to the side of the road when he saw the woman calmly plant her feet and refuse to leave. He said, for the most part, the demonstrations in the city have been peaceful and the woman’s actions reflected that: It happened quickly, but I could tell

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that she wasn’t going to move, and it seemed like she was making her stand. To me it seemed like: You’re going to have to come and get me.

And I just thought it seemed like this was a good place to get in position and make an image, just because she was there in her dress and you have two police officers in full riot gear.

It wasn’t very violent. She didn’t say anything. She didn’t resist, and the police didn’t drag her off.

The woman was released from police custody late Sunday evening, according to New York Daily News reporter Shaun King.

Protesters gathered in a number of cities around the U.S. this weekend

following the shooting deaths of Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile, during a traffic stop in Minneapolis. Hundreds were arrested as protesters in the Twin Cities shut down I-94, a major highway, and threw rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers. Police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.

President Barack Obama on Sunday warned violence against police could harm the Black Lives Matter movement and its calls for fairness in the criminal justice system, just days after five police officers were killed by a sniper in Dallas.

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McAuliffe: Va. budget has $266 million shortfall Virginia finished its fiscal year $266 million in the red as payrolland sales-tax receipts lagged below expectations, Gov. Terry McAuliffe said last week.

McAuliffe (D), who has made expanding and diversifying the state’s economy his top priority, highlighted the upside of Virginia’s budget picture: The state took in a record $18.3 billion in revenue in the fiscal year that ended June 30.

But that number represented a meager 1.7 percent increase in general-fund revenue. The budget was based on a projected 3.2 percent increase.

“Although these results indicate that our economy continues to grow in the wake of the recession and sequestration, they also underscore the necessity of continuing our work to diversify the Virginia economy and create more and better paying jobs in the state,” McAuliffe said in a statement. “We are having significant success bringing more than 135,000 net new jobs to the Commonwealth that are helping to buoy our revenue collections, but we have more work to do to build

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe the new Virginia economy that will result in greater opportunity and budgetary certainty in the future.”

Republicans used the numbers as an opportunity to skewer McAuliffe, who often touts the state’s low

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Blacklivesmatter757 protesters marching in support of the Black Lives Matter movement shut down an interstate as hundreds more marched down streets in several cities in the Hampton Roads region. See more online.

unemployment rate as proof that Virginia’s economy is “booming.”

“The shortfall proves that Virginia’s economy is not booming, despite several suggestions to the contrary,” House Majority Leader M. Kirkland

Cox (R-Colonial Heights) said in a statement. “While the unemployment rate might make for a good press release, the truth is Virginia’s economic outlook is worrisome. The shortfall reveals underlying economic trends that we must be cognizant of as we move forward.”

McAuliffe stressed that he has taken steps to respond to lower revenue. He has tentatively scheduled meetings of the Joint Advisory Board of Economists on Friday and the Governor’s Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates on Aug. 15 to develop a new revenue forecast for the two-year budget cycle that began July 1.

“The economy is significantly weaker than top-line unemployment figures suggest, and the revenue shortfall is ample evidence of that,” House Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford) said in a statement. “In the long term, we must redouble our efforts to diversify and strengthen Virginia’s economy.”

In the short term, Howell said, House budget leaders would begin working with Finance Secretary Ric Brown to address the shortfall. -WP

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Non-profit searches for adult mentors for youth Seton Youth Shelters, a regional non-profit in Virginia Beach, is in search of youth ages 4-18, who would benefit from a volunteer match with an adult mentor for its Mentoring Children of Prisoners (MCP) program. When a child experiences the incarceration of a loved one, whether parent or close relative, it affects the entire family. The child may have a hard time adjusting to a change in the family structure or feel uneasy about explaining the situation to peers and adults. Seton’s MCP program is free and available to youth 4-18. Each child is paired with an adult mentor who serves as a positive role model.

“Everything with Kendra is going great and she’s still the best kid I could possibly ask for,” said new mentor, Ashley, last name withheld.

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“Whenever I take her friends places I’m reminded of how lucky I am to have gotten such an awesome mentee. She’s doing great in school and we're working on her being more about chores at home" Currently, the MCP program is in search of mentees in Virginia Beach.

“Seton has an abundance of trained mentors awaiting a match with a local child 4-18,” according to the non-profit. “Mentors for Seton Youth Shelters’ Mentoring Children of Prisoners program are well prepared by MCP staff before being matched with a mentee.”

Mentors receive ongoing training and guidance prior to meeting their mentee and throughout the entire match. They are also expected to provide regularly scheduled activities such as studying, movies, homework help, or just walking the Boardwalk. The Mentoring Children

of Prisoners program also provides quarterly newsletters to the mentor and the mentee’s parents filled with information, tips, and free or low-cost local activities. The program also coordinates free events such as their annual fishing trip!

Statistics released in 2014 by The National Mentoring Partnership state, “[Youth with mentors are] fiftyfive percent more likely to be enrolled in college, seventy-eight percent more likely to volunteer regularly in their communities and eighty-one percent more likely to participate regularly in sports or extracurricular activities.”

To sign-up a possible mentee or to apply to be a mentor, contact Carrie Weiler, director of Mentoring Children of Prisoners program at 757.646.9965 or email her at carrie@ setonyouthshelters.org.

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Va. DMV sued over suspending certain licenses WIRE & STAFF The Legal Aid Justice Center has filed a class action lawsuit against the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles and its commissioner, Richard Holocomb.

The lawsuit alleges the DMV is acting unconstitutionally when it automatically suspends the licenses of individuals who fail to pay fines and court fees. Specifically, the lawsuit says the practice unfairly targets indigent individuals who live at or below the federal poverty limit and cannot afford to pay fines and court fees.

The lawsuit names four plaintiffs including Damian Stinnie from Charlottesville and Neil Russo from Fluvanna County.

According to the lawsuit, Stinnie is a 24-year-old cancer survivor whose license was suspended after he failed to pay a series of fines and court fees.

The lawsuit alleges that Stinnie was unable to pay because he lives at the poverty line. It also alleges that several court systems were aware that Stinnie could not pay, but rather than creating a payment plan that he could afford, they had his licenses suspended.

According to the suit, Russo is a 61-year-old cancer survivor whose license was also suspended after he failed to pay a series of fines and court fees. The lawsuit alleges that Russo underwent expensive medical treatment that left him without money and unable to pay the courts back. Again, the suit alleges the courts were aware of Russo’s indigent status but failed to work with Russo to create a proper payment plan and instead had his licenses suspended.

A half-dozen Virginia court systems are named in the suit, including Albemarle County, Goochland County, Henrico County, Fairfax

County, Arlington and Loudon County.

In all cases, the lawsuit argues that suspending the licenses unjustly punishes them for being poor. It also says that without access to a car, most of the plaintiffs cannot work in order to make money to pay the courts back. Finally, the lawsuit says the license suspensions perpetuate the poverty of the plaintiffs because most court fees and fines begin to grow at a six percent interest rate when left unpaid.

The lawsuit also alleges Russo and Stinnie cannot travel to receive the medical treatment they require.

“In summary, the loss of a driver’s license often results in personal and familial hardship, such as reduced employment and education opportunities, reduced capacity to care for one's family, increased barriers to successfully reentry after a criminal offense, and increase

indebtedness as interest on costs and fines accumulates,” according to the lawsuit.

The five-count class action suit alleges that the named agencies violate the constitutional rights to due process and equal protection when they suspend the license of an indigent individual.

On behalf of the four plaintiffs named in the suit, the Legal Aid Justice Center demands a judge rule that the license suspension plan carried out by the DMV is unconstitutional, that the practice be stopped until a better system is created, and that the licenses of the plaintiffs be reinstated.

According to the lawsuit, some 900,000 licenses are suspended in Virginia for unpaid court fees and fines. The suit says over 100 of those suspensions involve people who are too poor to pay their court fees and fines.

Virginia program will help military medics get civilian jobs Approximately 20 corpsmen and staff members from Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) attended a recent event when Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed a firstof-its-kind bill which established the Virginia Military Medics and Corpsmen (MMAC) Pilot Program.

The program allows activeduty medical personnel currently participating in MMAC to earn licenses or credentials that are recognized by civilian health care organizations.

“Today we celebrate a milestone piece of legislation that not only serves our veterans and transitioning service members, but it also takes care of a private business -- our health care industry," said McAuliffe.

"We can now transition folks into the health care field, which is a field that desperately needs people to come work in. It is a win-win for everybody.”

Military medics and corpsmen receive extensive health care training while on active duty. When they transition to civilian life, their military health care experiences may not easily translate into comparable certifications or licenses required for health care jobs. As a result, many veteran medics and corpsmen are unemployed because they cannot apply their skills immediately in civilian health care jobs.

“Per capita, we have more veterans than any other state in America,” said McAuliffe. “One in 10 Virginians is a veteran, and we are doing all that we can to integrate them into our workforce. The medics and corpsmen have real-time field experience, and they are a natural fit into our health care workforce.”

Prior to the bill being unanimously passed in the Virginia general assembly, efforts had already been underway to translate veterans’

Hospitalman Sara Ellis, a hemodialysis technician, monitors the dialysis machine of a patient in the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth Nephrology Clinic. The clinic offers a variety of services to its patients including the monitoring of blood pressure and kidney functions, a urinalysis lab, infusion and anemia clinics, transplant work-ups, post-transplant care and dialysis. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Gary L. Johnson III/Released) military medical experience into academic credit and shorten the pathway to obtaining various civilian credentials.

However, in health care veterans

may still need to spend several years in a college program before they can obtain a credential.

“I have several Sailors who have decided to separate from the Navy

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‘Be selfless’: Group encourages listening after tragedies WYD - Travis Harris, a 33-year-old William & Mary graduate student and the leader of Williamsburg’s Black Lives Matter movement, put out a call on Facebook Thursday afternoon for supporters to gather at Aromas the following day.

The turnout—nearly a dozen people, half black and half white, from various walks of life—was big enough to relocate the gathering to a nearby college building.

While the meeting originally followed a focused agenda, Harris decided to go off script 20 minutes in and asked those gathered to share anything they had on their minds.

It had only been three days since Alton Sterling was shot to death by police in Louisiana, two since Philando Castile met a similar fate in Minnesota, and fewer than 24 hours since five Dallas police officers were killed by a sniper during a peaceful protest.

One attendee spoke to the fear of being desensitized, another to maintaining trusting relationships with police and a third to the need to “protect each other.”

“This is complicated,” Harris said.

“At the end of the day it’s not about our individual plans or goals. It’s bigger than all of us.”

Williamsburg resident Carter McNeese (center) speaks during a meeting of Williamsburg’s Black Lives Matter movement last week. Travis Harris (far left) is the leader of the local movement. PHOTO: WYD The group brainstormed ideas for encouraging transparency from the Williamsburg, James City County and William & Mary police departments. Members are also planning a vigil to help residents heal.

For Williamsburg residents who wish to support their neighbors of color, Harris discourages saying “I understand” or “It’s going to be alright.”

“Those are basically code words for

Site celebrates 152nd anniversary On Saturday, July 16, Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site invites the public to celebrate the life and legacy of Maggie L. Walker and the Jackson Ward community in which she lived with a day of tours, children’s activities, special programs, and refreshments.

In honor of the 152nd anniversary of Walker’s birthday, the site will host a number of activities highlighting this year’s theme, “Sharing Our Stories.” Visitors can share their memories of Jackson Ward and what it was like to grow up in Richmond from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at a pop-up oral history booth and opt to have their narratives recorded on the Storycorps app and preserved by the Library of Congress.

A recognition ceremony honoring the Maggie L. Walker Summer

Youth Leadership Institute Class of 2016 will be held at 11:30 a.m., followed by refreshments and music.

From 1-1:30 p.m. Stuart Scott of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society will speak about the Freedmen’s Bureau Project, followed at 2 p.m. by a presentation from author and filmmaker Rebekah Pierce on her film “Black Wall Street: The Money, The Music & The People”. All events are free and open to the public.

The first African American woman to charter a bank and serve as its president, Walker dedicated herself to a life of civic engagement, challenging racial discrimination and gender bias. Her story of leadership and self-determination continues to resonate with and inspire people around the world.

disregarding one’s pain and their place in the midst of a situation,” Harris said, adding that while he knows people are trying to be empathetic when they use those phrases, “it won’t work.”

He also encouraged residents to step outside of themselves and “be selfless.”

“It’s not about you or any guilt you may be feeling,” he said. “It’s about your neighbor and what they’re going through at this time.”

While Harris appreciated the turnout at Friday’s meeting, he said it’s important to recognize the momentum to support Black Lives Matter and fight police brutality will wane. There’s a cycle, he said, that begins with a police killing, national outcry and protest, and indictment or a lack of indictment, and then a lull before the next killing.

“We need to break this cycle,” Harris said. “There’s this gap between people who are doing the work every day and the national outcry. What we need to do is close the gap. It can’t just be 20 people doing the work.”

He also emphasized that the issue is “so much more than the direct killing.” It’s systemic, touching history, sociology, education and more, he said.

Carter McNeese, a Williamsburg resident and minister, said dialogue and real change comes when people are proactive.

“By reacting, it doesn’t, in the end, accomplish anything, except make us feel a little better,” McNeese said.

He urged supporters to ask themselves, “What is the Williamsburg we want to become?

What is the James City County we want to become?”

Law promotes gun background checks Anyone in Virginia served with a family abuse “permanent” (up to two years) protective order could be arrested if possessing or even living around a firearm. “Living in a household where firearms are present could constitute possession and result in a violation of this law,” according to a state-issued pamphlet explaining new laws that took effect in Virginia on July 1.

Someone served with such a protective order has 24 hours to get rid of their firearm. In fact, one may only possess the weapons during those 24 hours while actually in the process of transferring them to a law enforcement agency or to a person legally allowed to have a firearm.

Civilian recipients “must ensure that the firearms are returned only to individuals who are lawfully

allowed to possess firearms, or you may face criminal sanctions,” said the pamphlet.

“Expanding access to background checks and bolstering enforcement efforts will keep guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals and save lives in Virginia,” said Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

“Furthermore, because of this new law, sellers not availing themselves of the opportunity to submit a background check on a potential purchaser could now face liability if a gun sold without a check is used to commit a crime.”

The pamphlet, prepared by the Office of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security (Brian J. Moran), also said anyone with a concealed weapons permit must surrender their permit while subject to such an order.

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Giuliani vs. black parents Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani thinks black Americans need to worry less about police violence and more about teaching their children to respect police and fear other black people.

In light of the killings of five police officers in Dallas last week, Giuliani went off on the Black Lives Matter movement, in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

He called the slogan “inherently racist” and “anti-American,” while neglecting statistics that show black people are disproportionately targeted by police.

“There’s too much violence in the black community,” he said. “[I]f you want to deal with this on the black side, you’ve got to teach your children to be respectful to the police and you’ve got to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police; the real danger to them, 99 out of 100 times, 9,900 out of 1,000 times, are other black kids who are gonna kill them. That’s the way they’re gonna die.”

While the majority of people of any race shot to death in the U.S. are killed by other civilians, not police officers, Giuliani’s statement ignores that black men are disproportionately affected by police shootings. An ongoing Washington Post tally found that 40 percent of the unarmed men shot and killed by police last year were black, despite black men accounting for only 6 percent of the population.

But Giuliani didn’t stop there.

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“If I were a black father and I was concerned about the safety of my child really concerned about it and not in a politically activist sense. I would say be very respectful to police, most of them are good, some can be very bad and just be very careful.

I’d also say be very careful of those kids in the neighborhood, don’t get involved with them, because son, there’s a 99 percent chance they’re going to kill you not the police.”

Things got heated when host John Dickerson tried to correct Giuliani’s claims that Black Lives Matter protesters encourage killing police officers.

“They sing rap songs about killing police officers and they talk about killing police officers and they yell it out at their rallies,” Giuliani said when Dickerson interjected.

Giuliani made similar comments during an appearance on MSNBC Live, when he claimed that “there’s a target on police officers’ backs ... because of groups like Black Lives Matter.”

On Sunday, Dallas police chief David Brown said the Dallas shooter, 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson, had no apparent ties to the Black Lives Matter movement, which calls for rooting out systemic racism and police brutality against black people. The chief added that their investigation shows Johnson was likely planning these attacks before officers killed Philando Castile, 32, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling, 37, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, earlier last week.

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In the aftermath...

My heart has been heavy as I reflect on the shootings in Baton Rouge, St. Paul, and Dallas.

Once again our nation’s consciousness has been raised by the repeated acts of senseless violence this week in Baton Rouge, St. Paul, and Dallas.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the families, friends and communities impacted by these horrific incidents. Certainly, the pain of these families and the community at large are felt by all of us. As I watched the news and heard the stories of each of the five policemen and two private citizens killed week and their families, I realized that their stories do much more than touch our hearts, they continue the conversations about violence in our nation.

These tragedies serve as the latest reminders to all of us that when we fail to talk with, understand, and care for one another; our prejudices and anger take over. We need conversations, certainly, but we also need a plan for sensible gun control to reduce the possibility of violence against the innocent.

We need proactive policies and action to bring about changes that enable people to feel safe and that the police can still be trusted. In some places, the trust remains, but it is fragile. In others, it no longer exists even when the majority of police serve their communities well.

“Gun violence reflects existing social inequalities, and also makes it more challenging for young black people, especially young black men, to dismantle systemic barriers of pervasive prejudice and generational poverty. We must use our voices as policy makers, law enforcement officials, community activists, and individual citizens to call for an end to all of the violence. It is up to us, and only us, to fix the problems that have been created and eliminate the violence that is corrosive to a healthy and stable society.

It is every person and every community’s responsibility to eliminate prejudice and bitter intolerance that gives root to these horrendous acts.

Let’s continue to keep the families, friends and communities of those slain this week in our hearts and prayers.

A. Shuanise Washington President and CEO of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

We are better than this

[G]iven the extraordinary interest in the shootings that took place in Louisiana and Minnesota, I thought it would be important for me to address all of you directly.

And I want to begin by expressing my condolences for the families of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

[W]e have seen tragedies like this too many times. The Justice Department, I know, has opened a civil rights investigation in Baton Rouge. The governor of Minnesota, I understand, is calling for an investigation there, as well. As is my practice, given my institutional role, I can't comment on the specific facts of these cases, and I have full confidence in the Justice Department’s ability to conduct a thorough and fair inquiry.

But what I can say is that all of us as Americans should be troubled by these shootings, because these are not isolated incidents. They’re symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system. And I just want to give people a few statistics to try to put in context why emotions are so raw around these issues.

According to various studies -- not just one, but a wide range of studies that have been carried out over a number of years -- African Americans are 30 percent more likely than whites to be pulled over. After being pulled over, African Americans and Hispanics are three times more likely to be searched. Last year, African Americans were shot by police at more than twice the rate

of whites. African Americans are arrested at twice the rate of whites.

African American defendants are 75 percent more likely to be charged with offenses carrying mandatory minimums. They receive sentences that are almost 10 percent longer than comparable whites arrested for the same crime.

So that if you add it all up, the African American and Hispanic population, who make up only 30 percent of the general population, make up more than half of the incarcerated population.

Now, these are facts. And when incidents like this occur, there’s a big chunk of our fellow citizenry that feels as if because of the color of their skin, they are not being treated the same. And that hurts. And that should trouble all of us. This is not just a black issue. It's not just a Hispanic issue. This is an American issue that we should all care about.

All fair-minded people should be concerned.

Now, let me just say we have extraordinary appreciation and respect for the vast majority of police officers who put their lives on the line to protect us every single day.

They’ve got a dangerous job. It is a tough job. And as I've said before, they have a right to go home to their families, just like anybody else on the job. And there are going to be circumstances in which they’ve got to make split-second decisions. We understand that.

But when we see data that indicates disparities in how African Americans and Latinos may be treated in various jurisdictions

around the country, then it's incumbent on all of us to say, we can do better than this; we are better than this -- and to not have it degenerate into the usual political scrum. We should be able to step back, reflect, and ask ourselves, what can we do better so that everybody feels as if they’re equal under the law?

Now, the good news is, is that there are practices we can institute that will make a difference. Last year, we put together a task force that was comprised of civil rights activists and community leaders, but also law enforcement officials -- police captains, sheriffs. And they sat around a table and they looked at the data and they looked at best practices, and they came up with specific recommendations and steps that could ensure that the trust between communities and police departments were rebuilt and incidents like this would be less likely to occur.

And there are some jurisdictions out there that have adopted these recommendations. But there are a whole bunch that have not. And if anything good comes out of these tragedies, my hope is, is that communities around the country take a look and say, how can we implement these recommendations, and that the overwhelming majority of police officers who are doing a great job every single day, and are doing their job without regard to race, that they encourage their leadership and organizations that represent them to get behind these recommendations.

Because, ultimately, if you can rebuild trust between communities and the police departments that serve them, that helps us solve crime problems. That will make life easier for police officers. They will have more cooperation. They will be safer.

They will be more likely to come home. So it would be good for crimefighting and it will avert tragedy.

Statement from President Obama

Because she is?

In his July 5 press briefing, FBI director James Comey spoke 2,341 words explaining his decision not to recommend criminal charges over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to transmit, receive and store classified information during her tenure as US Secretary of State.

He could have named that tune in four words: “Because she’s Hillary Clinton.”

Comey left no doubt whatsoever that Clinton and her staff broke the law: “[T]there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. For example, seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received. ... any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation.”

“But that doesn’t matter, because she’s Hillary Clinton.”

“Silly proles ... laws are for the little people.”

Thomas Knap

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There’s pain between the black community and law enforcement officials Pastor Bryan Carter of the Concord Church in Dallas was one of the many faith leaders present at the city’s prayer vigil for the five Dallas officers who were killed in an ambush attack on July 7.

Although the vigil was for the fallen officers, Carter reminded all that there is a bigger issue at hand that needs to be resolved, he explained.

“We’ve got to realize the pain that is happening between the black community and law enforcement.

That these are not issues we are making up,” he said.

“These are not random issues. We

can’t explain away every issue. He was reaching for something. He was doing this.

“I mean every time we look up we have an explanation for why he was shot. We’ve got to really address these issues head on.”

Carter hopes these recent tragedies are the “tipping point” towards change, telling us, “Perhaps this kind of tragedy in three consecutive days can begin to help us to have some real conversations both on the law enforcement side but also around the matters of race because both of these all go together.”

Historic Freedmen’s Bureau Project indexing nearly 2 million Civil War-era records completed Over the past year, about 19,000 volunteers participated in the project across the U.S. and Canada to extract nearly 1.8 million names of former slaves and immigrants from Civil War-era records.

“Now that the names are indexed, we will focus our efforts on teaching African Americans how to search the new digital records to discover and reunite with their families,” said Thom Reed, marketing manager of FamilySearch, the largest genealogy organization in the world, which is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

FamilySearch has announced completion of the Freedmen’s Bureau Project, indexing the names of millions of African Americans collected directly following emancipation.

The unprecedented indexing effort will allow African Americans to digitally search for their ancestors who were previously lost to history.

The project was completed almost a year to the day after it was announced in a nationwide news conference at the California African American Museum on the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, the celebration of Emancipation Day. Key to the project’s success were the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society’s (AAHGS) nationwide chapters, the Smithsonian and local Mormon congregations who partnered in over 100 indexing events to bring the project to a successful conclusion.

FamilySearch also partnered with HISTORY® in May to give the project a final push through a social media campaign to coincide with the premiere of the television series “Roots.”

“In addition to our valuable partners, the project was embraced by dedicated genealogists, religious groups, universities and even was the focus of Eagle Scout projects,” added

Reed. “We all sensed an urgency to bring this important chapter in history to life and shine a light on this courageous generation of African Americans.”

William Durant from the AAHGS Metro Atlanta Chapter said, "Indexing Freedmen's Bureau records puts you 'up close and personal' with ancestors and their struggles to begin life anew after slavery. It helps prepare you for your own research and saves time because you become familiar with the records, their format and wording, and [you] already know where to look for names."

The project’s completion coincides with the September 2016 opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture(NMAAHC) in Washington, D.C. A symbolic handover of the records will take place later this year. At that time, all of the records will also be available to the public to

search online at no cost.

“The genealogical community is fully embracing these records,” said Hollis Gentry, genealogy specialist at NMAAHC. “You’ll find African American genealogists are quite excited about the Freedmen’s Bureau Project. It offers a tremendous potential for them to find their ancestors in this large group of federal records that may bridge the gap between freedom and slavery in the records.”

“The Freedmen's Bureau Project will change the very fabric of genealogy for African Americans," said Sherri Camp, president of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society.

The Freedmen’s Bureau, organized under an 1865 Congressional order at the conclusion of the Civil War, offered assistance to freed slaves.

Handwritten records of these

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The LEGACY NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY D/B/A DOMINION VIRGINIA POWER FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER R, BEAR GARDEN GENERATING STATION CASE NO. PUE-2016-00061

On June 1, 2016, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Virginia Power (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update with respect to the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider R (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Bear Garden Generating Station (“Bear Garden” or “Project”), a 590 megawatt (nominal) natural gas- and oil-fired combined cycle electric generating facility and associated transmission interconnection facilities located in Buckingham County, Virginia.

In Case No. PUE-2008-00014, the Commission approved the development of Bear Garden. In Case No. PUE-2009-00017, the Commission subsequently approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider R, which allowed Dominion Virginia Power to recover costs associated with the development of the Project, including projected construction work in progress and any associated allowance for funds used during construction. According to Dominion Virginia Power, Bear Garden became fully operational on May 23, 2011.

In this proceeding, Dominion Virginia Power has asked the Commission to approve Rider R for the rate year beginning April 1, 2017, and ending March 31, 2018 (“2017 Rate Year”). The two key components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2017 Rate Year are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True-Up Factor. The Company is requesting a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $68,475,000, and an Actual Cost True-Up Factor revenue requirement of $6,746,000. Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $75,221,000 for service rendered during the 2017 Rate Year.

Dominion Virginia Power utilized a rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 11.5% for purposes of calculating the Projected Cost Recovery Factor in this case. This ROE comprises a general ROE of 10.5%, plus a 100 basis point enhanced return applicable to a combined-cycle generating station as described in § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code. For purposes of calculating the Actual Cost True-Up Factor, including an accompanying correction to the 2014 calendar year Actual Cost True-up Factor, the Company utilized an ROE of 11%, which comprises the general ROE of 10% approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUE-2013-00020, plus the 100 basis point enhanced return.

If the proposed Rider R for the 2017 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion Virginia Power, implementation of its proposed Rider R on April 1, 2017, would increase the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.16.

The Company has calculated the proposed Rider R rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider R proceeding, Case No. PUE2015-00059.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals.

TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, bifurcated ROE issues from the remainder of the case and scheduled a public hearing on November 15, 2016, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public on the Company’s Application.

At this public hearing evidence related to non-ROE aspects of the Application will also be received from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear in the Commission’s courtroom fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

A public hearing on ROE issues in this case and in Case Nos. PUE-2016-00059, PUE-2016-00060, PUE-2016-00062, and PUE-2016-00063 shall be convened by the Commission on January 18, 2017, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. At this public hearing evidence and testimony related to ROE aspects of the Application will be received from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff.

The public version of the Company’s Application, as well as the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa S. Booth, Esquire, Dominion Resources Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

Copies of the public version of the Application and other documents filed in this case also are available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

On or before November 8, 2016, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments on the Application with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before November 8, 2016, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00061.

On or before September 2, 2016, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the above address. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00061. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing.

On or before October 4, 2016, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. Respondents also shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including: 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00061.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address above.

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Towanda Darden Empowering Youth For Positive Change What is your name and business location?

Towanda Darden, Mechanicsville, VA

How have you overcome them or are planning to overcome them?

I have a strategic plan of action to put reasonable accommodations in place to meet the needs of both offices.

What motivated you to become a business owner?

I know working hard to grow my business will allow me to give back to my community. I have always wanted to make a difference in the lives around me, and I see my business as a catalyst to allow me to do that.

How has technology, such as computers and the Internet, impacted how you conduct business?

We are paperless, so it has impacted us greatly.

Why did you choose your particular industry?

I always wanted to proactive in helping youth before they made wrong decisions, and if they did make the wrong decision to help them understand why it is a teachable moment.

What is your background?

Education, work experience, family.

I have been in the legal field for over 15 years, where I have been a paralegal who did defense work with several high profile attorneys. I have an associate’s degree from Bryant and Stratton, bachelor’s degree from Stayer University and pursuing my MBA from Stayer University.

I am a certified as a Life Coach, Anger Management Specialist, and shoplifting and theft addiction specialist.

I am the proud wife of Solomon Darden, and have 2 beautiful kids, Elise and Solomon.

How long have you been in business, either this one or a prior one?

I been in business for over 9 years.

Do you have a mission statement, the reason that your business exists? Yes How do you market your business? How do you make people aware of your business?

Actually, I never marketed, we get

Where do you see your business in the next year? In the next five years? The next 10 years? Adding more programs and opening in other states, and schools.

Towanda Darden, CEO of Empowering Youth for Positive Change our clients by word of mouth and from the work we do with our clients and in the community.

About 80 percent of new businesses fail in the first 18 months, according to Bloomberg Business research. What are your thoughts on this statistic?

My thoughts are you have to sacrifice and strive for success no matter how much the odds are against you. You get in what you put out.

How many partners and/or employees do you have?

I have one partner and 58 staff members.

What is your management style and how does it complement your partner’s/employees’, if any?

I have an open door policy and always looking for solutions.

Leadership is very important to me.

My motto is, being proactive before being reactive, saves the day. It compliments my partner because I am a over achiever, so he knows that

I have crossed every T and dotted every I. Can you describe your customers and why do you think they choose you over your competitor(s)?

My clients are individuals with mental health disorders and just need encouragement and guidance.

We are person centered and your success in our program is important to us. We just do business a little different than most.

How do you view your competitor(s) and how do they impact how you run your business? I believe there is enough families out here that everyone in my field should want to help. I view them as companies that can have a major effect on our youth future.

They don’t impact my business.

What are some of the biggest challenges you have encountered thus far? Finding balance in my Virginia office and Georgia office.

How have the social (crime, race, gender), economic, environmental, legal and political environments impacted your business? It has not.

What trade associations are you a member of and have they helped or hindered you?

National Association of Professional Women, NO. What advice would you give someone who wants to start their own business?

Write your vision, make a plan and execute your plan.

What are some of the ethical concerns that your business has dealt with and how?

Knowing when to say when, and realizing we can’t be everything to everyone. Finding the balance.

If something happens to you, what will happen to your business?

It will keep running.

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Police cleared of criminal charges in Va. Taser death Culpeper Police demonstrated “an objectively reasonable use of force” during the March 29, 2015 incident when 30-year-old Dominick Wise was shocked with a Taser three times in a span of 18 seconds and died at the hospital about 14 hours later, according to the report of investigation police use of force released Thursday by Culpeper County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Walther.

No criminal charges will be filed against the officers involved in the incident, he concluded.

At the time, Wise was under the influence of PCP at 11 times the level required by law to be legally presumed under the influence, according to a blood test done on Wise about two hours later at the Culpeper hospital referenced in Walther’s report.

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Culpeper Police Officer Holly Hill, on routine patrol, was the first to encounter Wise just before 8 p.m. in the area of Sunflower Drive and Cottontail Drive in the town of Culpeper. She observed him walking in circles in the street, got out of her patrol vehicle and began calling to him, according to Walther’s report, which said Wise ignored repeated commands to stop.

Suspecting he was intoxicated, Hill followed him on foot for three blocks until Wise started running from her as he reached Belle Avenue.

According to Walther’s report, witnesses observed Wise looking over his shoulder several times at Hill.

As more officers responded to the scene, Wise continued to ignore multiple commands to stop and ran into a field near Culpeper Commons Apartments before he was tackled

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Dominick Wise, 30, pictured with his infant daughter, died March 30, 2015 at UVa Medical Center after an altercation with town police the previous evening. FAMILY PHOTO to the ground by Officer Slaughter.

Wise continued to resist arrest, according to Walther’s report, and began rolling and kicking. Wise kicked an Officer Cole in the face and

broke his nose.

Culpeper Police Lt. Jeff Dodson was the first to administer his Taser, shocking Wise the first time for five

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A robber’s 3 life sentences: ’90s legacy fills today’s prisons TIMOTHY WILLIAMS BURKEVILLE — Lenny Singleton is the first to admit that he deserved an extended stay behind bars. To fuel his crack habit back in 1995, he walked into 13 stores over eight days and either distracted a clerk or pretended to have a concealed gun before stealing from the cash register. One time, he was armed with a knife with a six-inch blade that he had brought from his kitchen.

Singleton, 28 at the time, was charged with robbery and accepted a plea deal, fully expecting to receive a long jail sentence. But a confluence of factors worked against him, including the particularly hardnosed judge who sentenced him and the zero-tolerance ethos of the time against users of crack cocaine.

His sentence was very long: two life sentences. And another 100 years.

And no possibility for parole.

There is a growing consensus that the criminal justice system has incarcerated too many Americans for too many years, with liberals and conservatives alike denouncing the economic and social costs of holding 2.2 million people in the nation’s prisons and jails. And Congress is currently debating a criminal justice bill that, among other provisions, would reduce mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent offenders.

But a divide has opened within the reform movement over how to address prisoners who have been convicted of violent crimes, including people like Singleton, who threatened shop owners but did not harm anyone. Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union favor a swift 50 percent reduction in prison populations, while conservative prison reform organizations like Right on Crime prioritize the release of nonviolent offenders and worry that releasing others could backfire and reduce public support.

Nonviolent drug offenders make up only about 17 percent of all state prison inmates around the nation, while violent offenders make up more than 50 percent, according to federal data.

As the prison population has

Lenny Singleton and his wife, Vandy, with cards he has sent to her from prison. Mr. Singleton is one of nearly 160,000 inmates in the United States serving life sentences. PHOTO: FAMILY increased sharply over the past 30 years, so too has the number of those sentenced to life. Mr. Singleton is among nearly 160,000 prisoners serving life sentences — roughly the population of Eugene, Ore. The number of such inmates has more than quadrupled since 1984, and now about one in nine prison inmates is serving a life term, federal data shows.

“People are celebrating the stabilization of the prison population in recent years, but the scale of mass incarceration is so substantial that meaningful reduction is not going to happen by tinkering around the edges,” said Marc Mauer, the executive director of the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based nonprofit that advocates changes in sentencing policy.

The United States, which has about 4.4 percent of the world’s population, holds 22 percent of its prisoners, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies, a research organization based in England.

Singleton’s prison term, which makes it likely that he will die behind bars, attracted little attention in 1996. It was common then for judges in Virginia and the rest of the country to impose long prison terms for crack-related crimes. Still, even hard-line prosecutors who were active during that period say Singleton’s sentence seemed unduly harsh for crimes in which no one was hurt.

“Crack cocaine scared the hell out of a lot of people,” said William G. Broaddus, a former Virginia attorney general who is now in private practice and had no role in the case.

“It’s disappointing there wasn’t more consideration as to why this man did this. Do we really want to keep him in jail for the rest of his life? Having said that, it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that this judge meted out the sentence that he did.”

William F. Rutherford, the judge who sentenced Singleton, has been retired for years. During a recent series of interviews, he said he had no recollection of the case, but after

he reviewed Singleton’s court files, he said he had no regrets about how he handled it.

“Under the circumstances,” he said, “it would not be unusual for me to give out that kind of sentence.”

Singleton in high school, left, and in the Navy, right, in images provided by his wife.

Rutherford, who turned 89 in June, was known in Norfolk legal circles for his tough sentences, and he acknowledged that he was an intimidating presence on the bench.

“I’m a no-nonsense guy and I wouldn’t take any crap off of defense lawyers or anybody,” he said. “The people in jail did not like coming into Courtroom No. 7.”

D. J. Hansen, the prosecutor in Singleton’s case, said Rutherford “had a reputation for being one of the tougher judges” in the courthouse. Hansen, who is now a deputy commonwealth’s attorney in Chesapeake added that “Virginia

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Survey: U.S. blacks and whites remain deeply divided in views on racial equality Blacks and whites are deeply divided on their views of racial equality and the state of race relations, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

About six in 10 blacks say race relations are generally bad, rather than good. White Americans, however, are evenly divided, with 46 percent saying the relationship between the races are good versus 45 percent who think it is bad.

It makes sense, therefore, that while an overwhelming majority of blacks (88 percent) believe the United States needs to make

significant strides for blacks to have parity with whites, only 53 percent of white Americans think the same.

Blacks are also a lot less optimistic that such changes will be made.

Similarly, blacks were far more likely than whites to believe blacks were treated unfairly because of their race in the workplace—a 42 percent gap—as well as in dealings with the police, in the courts, when applying for a loan or mortgage, in stores and restaurants and when voting in elections.

The findings are significant, coming nearly eight years after the

historic election of America’s first black president, a phenomenon that many saw as a portent of sunny race relations ahead. But recent headlines such as the repeated killings of unarmed blacks and the shooting of nine black churchgoers by a white supremacist in Charlotte, N.C., have scuttled that hope.

In the waning months of his presidency, 34 percent of Americans say President Barack Obama has made progress on improving race relations, while 28 percent said he has tried but failed to make headway. A quarter said he has made

things worse, while 8 percent said he has not addressed it at all.

Unsurprisingly, opinions on Obama’s legacy on race relations are divided by race, with blacks being far more likely than whites and Hispanics (51 percent compared to 28 percent and 38 percent, respectively) to say Obama has made progress on race relations.

The findings are based on a national survey by Pew Research Center conducted from Feb. 29 to May 8, 2016, among 3,769 adults (including 1,799 whites, 1,004 blacks and 654 Hispanics.)

(from page 14) is a hard state” when it comes to doling out punishments, and pointed out that he sought a life sentence for Singleton because of the serious nature of the robberies.

When compared with recent cases, Singleton’s sentence appears to be disproportionately harsh. The maximum penalty for second-degree murder in Virginia is 40 years, and people convicted in recent months of attempted murder and similar crimes have received sentences far shorter than Singleton’s. For example, Tamar Harris, 21, who shot and wounded a police officer, was sentenced in April to 23 years in prison, and Jermaine Rogers, 30, of Norfolk, who pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder, was sentenced in March to 10 years.

Singleton, 49, who is called “Pops” by other inmates here at the Nottoway Correctional Center in central Virginia, has largely forgotten the details of his weeklong crime spree. Unlike many of his fellow inmates, he does not claim he is innocent.

He recalled in an interview that before each robbery, he would smoke crack and drink a 12-pack of beer. In all, he got about $500.

“After I sobered up, I couldn’t believe what I had done,” he said. “I was like, ‘Damn, Lenny, what the hell?’”

Singleton was in the Navy FAMILY PHOTOS Singleton played football at Langston University, the historically black college in Oklahoma from which he graduated, and later joined the Navy, but was kicked out for using drugs. In prison, he has attended substance abuse classes and become a devoted reader of self-help books from the prison library.

He works in a furniture plant at the prison and earns 80 cents an hour building furniture used in Virginia’s universities. But a percentage of his pay is subtracted for court costs and fines, and he still owes the state $1,800.

In an image provided by his wife, Singleton, center, visited with his family at the Nottoway Correctional Center in September 2012.

Last year, he married a high school classmate, Vandy, with whom he had lost touch. They recently compiled a book of their letters detailing his incarceration and her battles with cancer.

Singleton, who prison officials acknowledge has never committed an infraction behind bars, has filed for a conditional pardon with Gov. Terry McAuliffe, saying in part that his court-appointed lawyer failed to adequately represent him. Singleton said he had been unaware that he could be sentenced to life in prison until he had already pleaded guilty.

His lawyer at that time, Jon M. Babineau, said he was legally prohibited from discussing Singleton’s case because of Virginia’s attorney-client privilege laws, but said he had done his best to represent his client.

In a prison administrative office on a recent morning, Singleton said he had seen inmates convicted of murder and rape come and go, and was hopeful that he would not die in prison.

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(from page 12) minute incident involving Wise.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe displays a newly signed bill establishing the Virginia Military Medics and Corpsmen (MMAC) Pilot Program. this summer, and they would make great candidates for the new program,” said Chief Hospital Corpsman Sybil Magrill, leading chief petty officer of the NMCP Critical Care Department.

She pointed out many of the Sailors have intensive care unit (ICU) training and they have extensive medical knowledge, but the qualifications they earned on active duty do not translate to civilian certification. Additional college, potentially two years or

more, would need to be completed prior to the military service member being considered for the civilian certification.

“It is refreshing to see the state of Virginia advocating for a vocational program in order to quickly get our veterans into the workforce,” said Magrill.

The MMAC Program will be accepting applications from qualified service members by this fall. To learn more, visit www.dvs. virginia.gov or call 804-786-0571.

(from page 8) transactions include records such as marriage registers, hospital or patient registers, educational efforts, census lists, labor contracts and indenture or apprenticeship papers and others. The records were compiled in 15 states and the District of Columbia.

Although the project is completed, it will be few more months before all of the records will be available to the public because they still need to go through an arbitration process.

“To ensure the accuracy of the indexed information, two volunteers index each document.

Any differences between the entries of these two volunteers is reviewed by a third, experienced volunteer called an arbitrator,” explained Michael Judson of FamilySearch.

“The arbitrator chooses the correct indexed data or adds their own information when neither appears to be correct.”

Project organizers report that even more records have been discovered as a result of the original indexing project. The additional records

Elder D. Todd Christofferson will be available for indexing on DiscoverFreedmen.org. Once completed, they too will be added to the collection at the Smithsonian and will be available online.

“One of our key beliefs is that our families can be linked forever and that knowing the sacrifices, the joys and the paths our ancestors trod helps us to know who we are and what we can accomplish,” said Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who spoke a year ago at a news conference in Los Angeles to launch the Freedmen’s Bureau Project.

seconds at 8:03:04 p.m. on March 29. He continued to resist, according to Walther’s report, and Dodson shocked him again at 8:03:18. With the second deployment having no visible effect, Officer Slaughter shocked Wise with his Taser for a third time at 8:03:22.

According to Walther’s report, it took at least five police officers to restrain and handcuff Wise who soon after stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest as he was being attended to by EMS personnel. The rescue squad had arrived almost immediately as it was already en route to the area for a drug overdose.

Coincidentally, the overdose victim was Wise’s cousin, with whom he had reportedly taken PCP earlier that same day, according to Walther’s report.

Wise went into cardiac arrest a second time on the way to the local hospital and was subsequently transported to the UVa Medical Center in Charlottesville where he died at 10:44 a.m. on March 30.

The entire encounter with Wise was not captured on tape, but three patrol cars did record portions of audio and video at various times and locations in addition to a private citizen’s security camera footage, according to Walther’s report. He said the recordings did not yield any significant inconsistencies with statements made by officers.

According to the medical examiner, Wise’s death was caused by “acute stress-induced cardiac arrhythmia due to acute exertion and restraint associated with the effects of PCP” and Taser application. Family members and medical reports indicated that Wise had a history of heart issues and PCP use, according to Walther’s report.

The prosecutor found that Culpeper Police demonstrated “a measured and reasonable progression in use of force” during the approximate eight-

Walther said Hill, suspecting he was under the influence, had the right to stop Wise to further investigate for his safety and the safety of others.

“The initial severity of the crime at issue was minor, a potential drunk in public, a class four misdemeanor,” according to Walther’s report. “”While the officer started with this potential crime, the officer was thwarted from assessing what mischief was afoot. The threat posed

by Dominick Wise could not be ascertained because he would not follow instructions and immediately evaded arrest or investigatory detention by flight.”

The Virginia State Police independently investigated the incident and Wise’s family members were invited to meet with Walther during his investigation and review audio and video recordings, according to his report.

In a statement last week, Culpeper Police Chief Chris Jenkins said the officers involved in the Wise encounter continue to serve in the town except for Hill, who retired recently, as planned, after 27 years.

“This incident, no matter of the circumstances, is tragic,” Jenkins said. “Each and every officer goes out every day wanting to protect our citizens from various dangers that exist in the world today. When there is loss of life, it weights heavy on each officer involved. Our thoughts and prayers will always be with the officers involved and to the Wise family as they continue to mourn their loss as well.”

As matter of policy and best practice, the Culpeper Police Department will conduct a separate administrative investigation into the incident, according to Jenkins.

Wise's family had indicated that they were exploring a potential civil wrongful death suit in the matter.

Their attorney could not be reached for comment by press time.

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