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Charter schools & urban communities NAACP decries ‘predatory’ qualities In Virginia Virginia’s law does not contain a cap on charter public school growth, it allows only local school district authorizers and provides little autonomy, insufficient accountability, and inequitable funding.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools notes that Virginia’s law needs improvement across the board. Potential starting points include expanding authorizing options, beefing up the law in relation to increasing operational autonomy, and ensuring equitable operational funding and equitable access to capital funding and facilities.

STAFF & WIRE Don’t.

That’s the NAACP’s message for state, local governments and others looking to expand charter schools in urban communities.

During its 2016 National Convention last month, the group’s delegates passed a resolution that reaffirmed the association’s opposition to spending public money on charter schools but went a step further by calling for a full moratorium on their “rapid proliferation,” confirmed NAACP interim education director Victor Goode last week.

The NAACP called charter schools the educational equivalent of “predatory lending practices” responsible for issues ranging from unequal discipline to school resegregation.

Education Secretary John King pushed back on the NAACP’s declaration in Washington last week, insisting there shouldn’t be

“artificial barriers” to the growth of quality, taxpayer-funded, locally controlled schools that are “drivers of opportunity for kids.”

There are “places around the country that you will find characters that are closing the achievement gap, charters that are sending all of their students on to college when the local neighborhood school is sending hardly any students on to college,” King told reporters at the annual National Association of Black Journalists–National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention, just hours after the NAACP approved its resolution in Baltimore.

Still, “there are charters that are not good, and states need to act to improve those schools or close those schools,” King said in a oneon-one interview with journalist Maria Hinojosa. “So our role at the federal level is to both encourage the creation of schools that are good and also encourage charter operators to take their responsibility to act” when schools come up short.

The one-day, long-distance debate between King, the top education official in the country, and the NAACP, arguably the nation’s most august civil rights organization, mirrors the national controversy around charter schools.

As cash-strapped states and school districts struggle to adequately fund public schools, particularly in urban areas, the appetite for charters has grown among policy makers and education reformers (and likeminded conservative politicians).

Supporters point to charters as a way for communities, parents, and educators to work together, creating a coherent, tailored plan to teach kids based on where they live and what they need. They argue that charters offer parents in struggling neighborhoods a choice, increasing competition for failing traditional public schools.

Opponents, however, say the charter school system sacrifices accountability—and the fight between affluent and poor districts

for equitable school funding—on the altar of local control. With less accountability, they say, those schools have a reputation of shortchanging students, mismanaging publicly funded budgets, and overworking teachers, with little government oversight.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, the number of charter schools nationwide has more than tripled since 2000, from 1.7 percent to 6.2 percent, with the total number of public charter schools increasing from 1,500 to 6,100. They also got bigger over the same time. The number of schools that have between 500 and 1,000 students doubled, from 11 percent to 22 percent.

A series of studies has revealed that, propelled by housing trends and income inequality, an eyebrowraising number of charter schools and public schools are more likely to be separate and unequal. Schools and districts that are predominantly black or Latino are less likely to

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Correctional report focuses on Chesapeake facility The new juvenile correctional center (JCC) to be built in the city of Chesapeake, as well as any future center that may be built or renovated, should provide incarcerated youth and facility staff with a safe environment that promotes rigorous rehabilitation and treatment and provides the best possible chance of success when they return to the community, according to an interim report released last week by the Interagency Task Force on JCCs (Task Force).

“We thank the members of the task force, whose recommendations have kept the success of the youth we serve as their top priority, and the various juvenile justice stakeholders and members of the public who have provided us with input thus far,”

said Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and Chairman of the Task Force Brian Moran.

“The completion of this report is yet another step forward in our efforts to transform our juvenile justice system into one that uses research and evidence-based approaches, to get better life and public safety outcomes for the youth, families, and communities served by the Department of Juvenile Justice.”

However, the secretary also cautioned that this report, by definition, focuses on only one aspect of the juvenile justice system – JCCs. “The Task Force members recognize that our juvenile correctional centers, new or old, should only be used as a last resort for those youth who cannot safely or effectively be

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Secretary Brian Moran maintained in a less-restrictive setting and that most youth are better served in their communities,” he said. “For that small number of kids, however, we need facilities that are designed to support and promote treatment, education, and rehabilitation.”

Andrew Block, also a task force member and director of the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) added that it is “critical” to note that “this new construction is not the addition of new JCC beds; because the courts are sending us fewer kids, and we are creating more community-based alternative placements, the new Chesapeake facility is only 64 beds and will replace Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center, which has 270 beds.

“Importantly, the new facility will be built to provide treatment while our current facilities more closely resemble adult facilities. Our great staff will have the tools they need to do the rehabilitative work they want to do.”

Key interim recommendations of the task force include the following: • New or renovated facilities can

and should be significantly smaller than the current JCCs. • The Task Force recommends that new or renovated JCCs be located as close as possible to the home communities of the juveniles they house to promote family engagement and treatment throughout the period of confinement, which research shows improves outcomes for confined youth.

• Given the large percentage of juveniles committed to DJJ from the Tidewater (Hampton Roads) area, creation of a JCC in Chesapeake is imperative to the rehabilitation of these juveniles.

• The design of the facility itself should promote treatment and rehabilitation by having smaller living units (preferably no larger than 12 beds) that can function as semi-autonomous treatment communities, dedicated space for individual and family treatment, and an environment that is responsive to the developmental, mental, and behavioral health needs of a population of youth with substantial exposure to childhood trauma.

Established by the legislature in 2016 in response to concerns about the high costs of confinement, high reoffense rates for youth released from Virginia’s current JCCs, and a proposal by Gov. Terry McAuliffe to replace these facilities, the task force’s work, as required by the General Assembly, is to analyze and make recommendations regarding the optimal design and use of JCCs in Virginia.

As required by the authorizing language, the task force is chaired by the Moran, the secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, and includes either the directors or their designees of the following agencies: Department of Juvenile Justice, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Department of Corrections, and the Office of Children’s Services.

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NAACP president and students stage sit-in at Va. congressman’s office STAFF & WIRE Some 20 members of the NAACP have launched a sit-in at Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s district office in downtown Roanoke to call for a hearing on the Voting Rights Act. The sit-in — which includes national NAACP President Cornell William Brooks — came two days after the 51st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act’s signing.

Demonstrators are urging Goodlatte, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, to hold a hearing on updating and restoring provisions of the federal law that were nullified in a 2013 Supreme Court ruling.

Brooks said he and a second national NAACP representative, youth director Stephen Green, plan to continue the sit-in until a hearing is called or until they’re arrested.

Other demonstrators — made up primarily of the local NAACP’s youth council — are supporting the sit-in but will leave if asked to by police, organizers said.

Brooks, an attorney and minister who has served as president of the NAACP since 2014, charged that Goodlatte has refused to hold hearings on the re-authorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for three years, noting that Virginia, and the country already have strong voting rights.

The sit-in began at 11 a.m. Monday and followed a morning of protest by the local chapter of the NAACP, where a group of youth and adult activists called for congressional action to restore federal protection against state laws barring ballot access in states with the worst histories of voter suppression and discrimination.

“In these past three years, we’ve seen a Machiavellian frenzy of voter suppression from one end of this country to the other, where states have worked systemically to make

it harder for young people, college students, minorities to vote for the candidate and party of their choice on Nov. 8,” said Brooks. “With the fate of our national moral character at stake, we must hold our elected leaders responsible to act to uphold the constitutional rights guaranteed for all citizens to vote and participate in this Democracy.”

The protest and rally are held to honor the 51st anniversary since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on Aug. 6, 1965, effectively banning state laws that denied the vote to black and minority voters for decades in Virginia and other southern states. Three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down portions of the law that prohibited states from changing local election laws without federal review in the case of Shelby v. Holder.

Within days of the 2013 ruling, noted the NAACP, several states enacted exclusive voting laws designed to prevent young, old and minority residents from voting by requiring hard-to-obtain ID cards to register and cast a ballot on election days, as well as cutting back on successful registration programs and early voting hours that drove minority turnout to record-setting levels in 2008 and 2012.

Federal courts last month struck down voting laws in Kansas, Georgia, North Carolina, North Dakota, Michigan, Texas and Wisconsin as attempts to deliberately prevent entire populations from having easy access to the ballot.

“Congressman Goodlatte said he would act if there was evidence of voter suppression,” said Brooks to police. “The Court of Appeals has ruled that there is widespread evidence of exactly that.

“It’s past time for Congressman Goodlatte to protect the same law he voted to re-authorize just 10 years ago.”

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AG program meant to build trust between teens, police STAFF & WIRE Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has launched a new program aimed at teaching teens how to interact with law enforcement officials.

Herring announced the program last week at the 16th annual Virginia School and Campus Safety Training Forum in Hampton where nearly 1,000 school resource officers and administrators were in attendance.

Herring said the interactive program will teach teens about their rights and responsibilities when they encounter law enforcement officers, whether it's during a conversation or an arrest. Called “Give it, Get it: Trust and Respect between Teens and Law Enforcement”, this is a new module under the already established Virginia RULE program.

Herring said the training can be taught by a school resource officer, commonwealth’s attorney or a church

leader. It includes different types of interactions, role playing and the opportunity for both young people and law enforcement to share their feelings.

Herring said that will “take some fear out of these interactions and make them safer, and more likely to end positively.”

Herring’s office notes that the lesson will become part of the Virginia Rules program, an educational program designed to teach teens how to stay safe.

Hampton school security officer Jeffrey Morgan said he’ll use it, but the results may come in the long term.

“He had some really good suggestions as far as how to combat some of the issues that we have and I think it will be pretty successful,” said Morgan.

More than 45,000 Virginia students participated in the Virginia Rules program last year.

The program launches Aug. 19.

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Victor Goode have quality facilities or resources compared with schools in white areas.

In addition to comparing charter schools to payday and subprime lenders that prey on low-income communities, the NAACP in its statement noted that the schools’ independent boards are, for the most part, appointed rather than elected, removing a key layer of accountability to the public. The organization also argued that many charters unfairly apply harsh disciplinary measures that harm students of color the most; studies indicate that charters expel black and Latino students at a higher rate than traditional public schools do.

“Weak oversight of charter schools puts students and communities at risk of harm, public funds at risk of being wasted and further erodes local control of public education,” according to the resolution.

But at the NABJ-NAHJ conference, King said at the top of his agenda are ensuring that all kids get access to a quality education and “lifting up” the teaching profession. Charters, he said, must be included in the equation, enforcement at the local level has to be a priority, and failing charter schools need to be held accountable.

“We should not have artificial barriers to the growth of charters that are good,” he told Hinojosa.

At the federal level, he said, “our position has always been that charters should be a part of the public school landscape and can be a driver of opportunity for kids.”

While civil rights groups and leaders often agree that poor and minority children are more likely to receive a substandard education, they diverge on whether charter

Some say the schools give poor children and kids of color who would otherwise be trapped in a failing school a better option.

“I have the upmost respect for the NAACP. The NAACP has produced historic change for folks of color,” said Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform.

“We have tens of thousands of families of color flocking to charter schools and voting with their feet …

This moratorium would take choices away from parents.”

Jeffries argued that while there might be some charter schools that are not successfully serving students, the answer is to shut down the bad ones, not put forth a blanket ban on their expansion. If anything, there should be a moratorium on failing traditional public schools, he said.

Even some groups that have teamed up with the NAACP to advocate for stronger accountability measures in the rewrite of the No Child Left Behind Act, depart from the group on the charter school issue. The National Council of La Raza, a Latino civil rights group, continues to support the expansion of charters schools and even supported a bill in 2014 that would have steered an additional $50 million towards them.

But the NAACP noted in its resolution that it joins Journey 4 Justice, a national coalition of community organizations that has been particularly active in Chicago, and other groups in calling for a freeze on charter schools. And on Monday, a handful of organizations affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement released an agenda, which among many things also called for a moratorium on charter schools and school closures.

The debate among civil rights groups is far from over. Goode, the NAACP education director, said the group’s position on charters may continue to affect its advocacy in local policy debates. Those could include continuing to fight efforts to lift the charter school cap in Massachusetts or opposing the tax credit scholarship program in Florida, which gives tax breaks to companies that contribute money to send needy kids to private schools.

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Poll: Clinton opens big gap in battleground Virginia ANTHONY SALVANTO News Analysis The battleground state of Virginia looks a little less like a battleground today, as Hillary Clinton has opened up a lead there of 49 percent to 37 percent, echoing some of the movement seen in national polls this week.

Clinton has nearly-unanimous Democratic backing at the moment while Trump isn’t doing as well with his fellow Republicans: she has 95 percent of the state’s Democrats compared to 79 percent of GOPers for Trump. In today’s highly partisan electorate, that amounts to a dramatic difference. There isn’t a wholesale move of Republicans to Clinton - just 6 percent - but others have drifted into being unsure, or voting third-party, and in what may become a turnout factor down the road, Republicans report lower motivation to vote than before.

However, that also suggests there could be room for Trump to rebound, if some of his partisans return.

The “Commander-in-Chief” test looms large, as it has become the top decision-making criteria for voters now. Clinton leads on it: fifty-seven percent say she is prepared while 36 percent say so of Trump. That commander-in-chief measure has become so important that Clinton can lead this race despite performing poorly on many other criteria: thirtythree percent believe she “tells the truth”; fewer than half believe she’ll “look out for people like you” despite putting an emphasis on that topic at the Democratic convention, and only 34 percent believe she can bring change to Washington.

Yet with the exception of bringing change - which 67 percent believe Trump can do - Trump does not perform especially well on those measures either, which only underlines how the election has, for many voters, become a relative comparison between the two candidates. About three in ten voters in all these battleground states say they dislike both choices, but are picking one anyway.

On the other side of the country in Arizona, Trump leads 44 percent to

42 percent, only two points in a state Republicans typically win without too much trouble. Even if this is as close as Arizona ever gets (just 15 percent of those not voting for Clinton would still consider her) it nonetheless tells the story of a potentially shifting map, forcing Trump to defend usually-red territory, in part because of such strong Hispanic support behind Clinton. In Arizona,

80 percent of Hispanic voters feel they’re more motivated to vote this year than previous years, and don’t believe Donald Trump treats all people fairly.

Immigration is a large issue there as always - though not quite as large as terrorism and health care - and Republicans remain strongly in support of the idea of a border wall with Mexico. Eight in 10 Republicans

call it a good idea - though it is seen as a bad idea by relatively more independents and most Democrats.

In Arizona, as elsewhere, Clinton is doing relatively better with those Democrats and has benefitted from a bit of crossover support, but many voters remain disappointed in their choices: 32 percent say they don’t like either of the two major-party candidates but are going to pick one anyway.

The controversy surrounding Donald Trump’s comments on the Khan family appear to have hurt him with independents, but less so among Republicans. Republicans’ views on the matter are mixed in Arizona as elsewhere, with 45 percent of Republicans saying Trump’s response was appropriate and 29 percent inappropriate. Republicans in Arizona are more apt to say they like that Trump sticks up for himself, more generally, than to feel that he is insensitive when he criticizes others.

Local crowd welcomes Kaine & Holton GEO STROTHER Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine delivered an emotional thank you in Richmond last week to an enthusiastic crowd of 2,500 prospective voters. The crowd included friends he made over two decades in Virginia politics, during a “Homecoming Rally” held at the newly constructed gymnasium at Huguenot High School.

The former Richmond mayor and current Virginia senator shared the stage with his wife Anne Holton, who after introducing Kaine, remained on stage. Holton resigned as state education secretary when Kaine got the call to run as vice president.

“I know he’s going to be a great partner to Secretary Clinton because he’s been such a great partner to me,” Anne said of her husband.

Kaine spoke for about hour on key campaign points, stressing the importance of Virginia in this year’s election. “Let’s go out in these 99 days and pound the pavement,” said Kaine.

Supporters in the diverse crowd remained supportive throughout the speech, waving “America’s Dad”

signs and cheering “Yes we Kaine” to back the candidate.

“He brought Richmond together, he really did,” said Patricia Aldridge, 59, a professor at Virginia State University. “He definitely recognizes that people are humans first and color second.”

The homecoming was short lived, as Kaine hit the road again, heading to Florida and North Carolina.

Kaine and Holton PHOTOS: Geo Strother

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Op/Ed & Letters

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Dems have ‘destroyed’ black community E.W. JACKSON America is in crisis. For the urban poor, the crisis is a national emergency. Last month I attended the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. I fully expected an exposition of the usual conservative positions on the economy, national security, the military, energy, taxes and the national debt. Although I was not holding my breath, it was also my hope that Donald Trump would tackle what the first black president has ignored for nearly eight years - a real solution to the poverty, violence, and educational failure plaguing the inner cities of America.

While he did not offer a comprehensive plan, I was pleased that he at least addressed the issue. “Nearly four in 10 African-American children are living in poverty, while 58 percent of African American youth are not employed,” Donald Trump said at the convention in Cleveland. He could have added that this is the result of 60 years of government spending on the ‘War on Poverty’, the ‘Great Society’, affirmative action, set asides and welfare to the tune of about $3 trillion. To say that government intervention has not worked is to be kind. It has been a disaster of cataclysmic proportions.

Before liberal noblesse oblige took hold in the black community, 80 percent of black children were raised in two parent families with a married mother and father. Now 72 percent of black children are born out of wedlock and 66 percent are raised in single parent female headed households. Gangs, violence, drug The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 2 No. 37 Mailing Address 409 E. Main Street 4 Office Address 105 1/2 E. Clay St. Richmond, VA 23219 Call 804-644-1550 Online www.legacynewspaper.com

dealing and poverty can all be traced to the absence of fathers in the home, a direct result of liberal welfare policies.

Black Lives Matters, the radical group sanctioned by the president and elites of the Democrat Party, says one of their guiding principles is “disrupting the Westernprescribed nuclear family structure requirement…” The phrase “Western construct” is code language for white.

A father and mother raising children is not a racial idea. It was designed

by God, and has been a blessing to every racial and ethnic group that has ever existed. If the left were truly interested in helping the the urban poor, they would seek to strengthen the black family, not disrupt it.

For too long Democrat elites have been so arrogant as to say that refusal to adhere to liberal orthodoxy means you are not authentically black. The result has been to keep black people in poverty and Democrats in power. They have campaigned in black churches, while undermining the black family and suppressing the growth of the black population through abortion. It is time for Americans of African descent The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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to realize that Democrats not only don't care about them, they don’t even like them. The recent revelation of DNC emails shows one trail between top DNC officials talking about a black female Democrat named LaQueenia. One official wrote, “LaQueenia is a NAME! I’m sorry boo. I hope you got a raise with this title.” If conservatives said something similar, the charges of racism would reverberate from the LA Times to the Washington Post.

Hillary Clinton is committed to the same disastrous policies which have kept black people in poverty for three generations.It has been over 60 years since Lyndon Johnson announced the so-called war on poverty, and $22 trillion later, the overall poverty levels have scarcely budged. Grandmothers, mothers and daughters often live together in the the same government housing, surviving on the same government programs. Democrats have promised the world and given only concrete jungles and food stamp allotments.

Trump has his shortcomings, but he has a vision to create a growing economy that produces jobs as opposed to creating dependence.

We need to unleash the dynamic potential of the American people to work and produce, build and grow, create, invent and innovate.

We need to reignite the engine of the American economy, which will make life better for everyone, and provide an escape for those trapped in poverty. That is the best recovery

plan the government can ever hope to offer impoverished Americans. My organization, STAND Foundation, Inc. has written a comprehensive private sector recovery plan for America’s inner cities called “Project Awakening”. It calls for a partnership between churches, businesses, private schools and other nongovernmental institutions to reinvigorate the inner cities.

How much longer will we lament the thousands of young men who die in street violence, the many children born without fathers to help guide them, the abandoned buildings, drug houses and filthy streets which characterize our urban areas?

Democrat elites are satisfied to blame racism because it lets them off the hook. They rule over these islands of misery, and nothing ever changes. It is time for the black community to abandon the Democratic Party, and rally behind policies which lift people out of poverty. It is time to stop supporting what has become a party of moral and economic bankruptcy. It is time to restore the inspired vision of one nation under God, as opposed to the insidious vision of a divided nation under government.

When you lay aside Democrat propaganda and racial demagoguery, the choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton is an easy one.

Jackson is a Marine Corps veteran, retired attorney, 2013 Republican nominee for lt. governor of Virginia, president of STAND Foundation, Inc., and bishop of The Called Church.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

On Creighton Court Dear Mayor Jones & City Council: In the July 28th edition of Richmond Magazine, an article entitled, “To Live & Die in Creighton Court” appeared. It is a story about three women that are residents of this development.

Bradley Development, LLC and I have been advocating for the implementation of Section 3 of the HUD Act of 1968, the proper allocation of Community Block Grant Development (CDBG) monies, implementation of Richmond city’s Section 3 Plan & implementation of RRHA's Section 3 Plan. This article and our research indicate that these residents and their neighbors have not been contacted, informed, educated or trained about the opportunities that these programs offer as required by law.

We are glad that City Council has ordered the Department of Economic & Community Development (DECD) and RRHA to come to the next Council Organizational Committee meeting. They must answer for the failure to implement any of the aforementioned to the benefit of the residents or the City of Richmond.

These residents have never been contacted by RRHA and have no appreciable knowledge of how the CDBG money should be spent or of the existing opportunities available through Section 3. City agencies are the 1st recipients.

They have the responsibility to contact the residents, inform them,

train and educate them for career opportunities.

This article indicates that these three ladies and most of the thousands of other residents have never heard any of this. Benign neglect like this is unlawful and unconscionable.

The Creighton Court Development project is almost entirely dependent on CDBG money. This almost automatically triggers city and federal Section 3 policies and procedures. Please read this article if you have not already and it will show you that the project has begun, Section 3 has not been implemented to the greatest feasible extent & that business as usual is taking place (meaning that low to very low income residents have not been informed).

The residents of Creighton and all other courts are overwhelmingly African.

The failure to use CDBG monies as required and the full implementation of Section 3 has a disparate impact on the over 50,000 primarily African adults & children living at or below poverty. Bradley Development, Maximum Impact, LLC and armed stand ready to assist the mayor, city administration, Richmond City Council and its agencies to fully implement these laws, policies and procedures that will move the Capitol City from being the Capitol of Poverty to the Capitol of Opportunity.

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Peace isn’t the priority

Precisely how did Korryn Gaines die? We don’t know, and probably never will.

The Baltimore County, Maryland Police Department admits that one of its officers shot her dead on Aug. 1.

In fact, the department admits that the officer shot first and that Gaines then returned fire in self-defense and defense of her five-year-old son (no, the department does not use those terms) before being gunned down.

The police also admit that before forcing their way into Gaines’s apartment and killing her, they went out of their way to ensure their actions would be hidden from public view. The department contacted two social media services, Facebook and Instagram, asking that Gaines’s accounts be disabled so as to cut off her photo and video streams of what was happening. To their everlasting shame, the two firms complied with the request.

So we don’t know what happened.

But we have a pretty good idea what happens next: The Baltimore County Police Department will “investigate” itself and announce that it has cleared itself and the unidentified officer who killed Gaines (he or she is currently on paid vacation, aka “administrative leave,” until the “investigation” is over) of any wrongdoing.

Baltimore County police chief James Johnson characterizes his department’s desire for “peace” as the overriding priority justifying the concealment operation. Social media contacts needed to be stopped

from urging her “not to comply with negotiators’ request that she surrender peacefully,” he says. “For hours, we pleaded with her to end this peacefully.”

Let’s dispense with the risible claim that “peace” was the priority here.

Had that been the case, Johnson could have just called it a night and directed his officers to get in their cars and drive away. Problem solved.

Easy, peace-y.

If the priority was not “peace,” then what was it?

Officer safety? No. Sending an officer into an apartment occupied by an armed woman isn’t very safe for the officer at all.

Public safety? No. At least one police officer fired multiple rounds -- firing first, remember? -- in an apartment building. Those rounds were probably 9mm, 10mm or .45 caliber rounds which could have penetrated walls (Gaines was allegedly armed with a 12-gauge shotgun, a much safer weapon for people on the other side of a wall).

The Baltimore County Police Department’s number one priority, their overriding concern, wasn’t peace, or officer safety, or public safety. It was -- as has become the case with many American police departments, much of the time -successful exercise of authority at any price.

That’s why the Baltimore County PD covered up the details of their killing of the ninth American woman of color to die at police hands this year. Just like a cat in a litter box.

Thomas L. Knapp

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Faith & Religion

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God and the games KIMBERLY WINSTON RNS -The XXXI Olympic Games, the 16-day athletic love-fest kicking off to a samba beat in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 5, are a secular endeavor featuring more fanfare than faith, more spectacle than spirit.

But it was not always so.

The Olympics — both the longgone ancient version and the modern version unspooling this month — have deep religious and spiritual roots, which, some scholars say, are in jeopardy as every host city tries to go bigger, better and more memorable than the last.

“The Olympic Games is the international sports event because of the diversity of the sports, the number of faiths represented, the number of countries participating,” said Anthony Moretti, an associate professor of communication at Robert Morris University who has written about the Olympic Games as a form of civic religion.

“But there is nothing spiritual about Coca-Cola, there is nothing

spiritual about Dow” or other sponsors of the modern Olympics, which Moretti and others have criticized for straying far from the spiritual intentions of the founders of the International Olympic Committee, the overseer of the games.

“So I think the IOC has some questions to ask,” Moretti continued.

“Are we being true to our roots or are we abandoning our past?”

Roots of the past The original Olympics began in the fifth century B.C. and were, of course, Greek. And like most things the ancient Greeks did, they were connected to their worship of the gods.

“For the ancient Greeks, the sport of the Olympic Games was quite literally a religious exercise — a display of religious devotion and worship,” scholar Paul Cartledge writes in History Today. Athletes paraded into the stadium past a line of religious officials and often dedicated their performances to a

Rio de Janeiro's Mayor Eduardo Paes, in untucked dress shirt; Brazilian Olympic Committee President Carlos Arthur Nuzman, in khaki pants; and leaders of different religions pray next to the Olympic Flag in front of “Christ the Redeemer” statue during a blessing ceremony in Rio de Janeiro. PHOTO: Ricardo Moraes patron god. Even the prizes were religious — crowns of olive leaves made from trees in a sacred grove dedicated to Zeus.

And the winners, Cartledge continued, were revered in a religious way, as “having been touched by divinity, as being raised above the station of a mere mortal.” When they were crowned, a procession headed to the temple of Zeus, where so many animals were sacrificed their ashes, blood and fat formed the altar.

The ancient Olympics carried on until the fourth century A.D. Even its disappearance had religious roots.

In 393, the Emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, canceled the games when he banned all pagan rituals.

Religious reboot For 1,500 years, there were no Olympic Games — until another Christian rebooted them, complete

with religious underpinnings.

Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat educated by Jesuits, was raised in 19th-century France torn by war. He admired the ancient Greeks for the way they held a peace every four years to stage the Olympiad.

In 1889, as a means of promoting peace between nations and remaking French athleticism, de Coubertin got the idea to revive the games.

On a trip to England, he encountered the work of Thomas Arnold, a Church of England deacon and a promoter of “muscular Christianity” — the idea that the pairing of physical strength with religious piety creates well-rounded, moral and ethical men.

Moretti writes that de Coubertin believed the Olympic athlete “would embody a personal kind of sacred temple … he would be his own

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(from page 8) representation of the sacred body of followers.”

That belief undergirds the International Olympic Committee, which de Coubertin founded in 1894.

The first modern international games were held two years later, in Athens, and included many of the religious trappings of the ancient games, including olive-leaf crowns and sacred fire in the form of the Olympic flame.

A civic religion Today’s games are almost as religious in nature as the ancient games, though it is a different kind of religion — the rites and core beliefs that bonded the warring Greeks are still there, but they’ve become more secularized than religious, more civic religion than specifically religious.

That civic religion is primarily on display in the opening ceremonies and their rituals audiences have come to expect — the ceremonial raising of the Olympic flag, the playing of the Olympic anthem (originally titled “The Olympic Hymn”) and the reverential lighting of the Olympic torch.

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The athletes who play by those rules and win, Moretti said, are “revered almost as divine” — think Jesse Owens, Mark Spitz, Mary Lou Retton. And those who break those rules suffer a more spiritual than legal punishment.

“It’s an excommunication,” Moretti said, speaking of Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter who nabbed three Olympic medals, including a gold in 1988, that were later stripped when it was discovered he used banned

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“The IOC has said to Ben Johnson: ‘We will never have you in our house again. You have not upheld the faith, the rituals, the standards of the Olympics. There’s the door.'”

Johnson, now 54, never recovered the gloss his Olympic medals lent him — and has never accepted responsibility for his actions.

And when the Olympics are over, the site on which they were held — the stadiums and arenas, the pools and the velodrome — become something of a sacred site. Some people make pilgrimages of a sort to see where the glory happened.

But all of that is endangered by the increasing commercialism of the games — and the growing nationalism some critics see in the lavish promotion of some of their wealthier participating nations.

Others trace the collapse of the Olympic ideal to the 1936 Olympics

awarded to Hitler’s Berlin, in which some Jewish athletes were prevented from playing.

“The origins of sport are very different from politics or entertainment,” British sports journalist Mihir Bose wrote just before the London Olympics in 2012. “It is about the ‘spirit’ of the game, about helping and improving people. I think those origins have been devalued, it is losing its soul. Events such as the Olympics are a commercial enterprise.”

For Moretti, it boils down to the past. “If you abandon the past — and some would say the IOC already has — if the leaders of the IOC say ‘we are no longer a spiritual organization, we might just be a win-at-all-costs entity,’ that would kind of bother me,” he said. “But as long as young men and women say, ‘I am striving to be an Olympian and we continue to respect it and watch it and pay attention to it, it still has value.”

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A black inventor takes on musical notation’s racial history ‘I’m doing the best I can’ of sounds instruments make into notation that look quite squiggly.

The Internet of Things is making operations more efficient and transparent.

These alternate systems might not be practical, teachable or even intelligible, said Radano. But that doesn’t matter.

“Whether or not it makes sense is one thing,” Radano said. “The other thing is the desire to claim the music for oneself. . . . Notation goes hand in hand with that.”

Even if standard musical notation isn’t explicitly racist, it’s not raceneutral.

“I don’t think it’s racist,” Kimbrough said of what he dismisses as “lines and staff.” “I think that what has happened around it is racist.”

Tim Kimbrough is greeted by churchgoers after services in Bladensburg.

PHOTO: Bill O’Leary Tim Kimbrough, the self-proclaimed Thomas Edison of black American keyboard, is living hard.

He’s short $55 on rent for his apartment, which consists of three rooms and a kitchen above a rental office in a Maryland suburb, cluttered with dusty encyclopedia sets and books about artificial intelligence.

He’s a 56-year-old man being pilloried on Craigslist for overposting — putting up too many ads for keyboard lessons he offers for $40 per hour. Lessons that few are willing to pay for.

Then there’s his patent. Kimbrough has invented a method of writing keyboard music — Patent No. 6977334 — that synthesizes a lifetime of studying African American music, including blues and gospel.

The method conveys black music’s nuances to students who, if they practice the 40 hours per week Kimbrough recommends, might become masters.

But, because Kimbrough is poor, he can’t afford to pay thousands of dollars in fees on the patent, which has lapsed. His method is now in the public domain, for free, and anyone can take it.

“I have to protect my work,” he

says, “so I’m doing the best I can.”

His best hasn’t been good enough.

Not racist, but not race-neutral The treble and bass clefs are not generally thought of as tools of racial oppression. But even before debates about minority representation in the liberal arts, some said the grand staff appropriate for Bach couldn’t capture, for example, the intricate polyrhythms of West African drumming or the microtones of the Indian sitar.

Ron Radano, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said the debate about notation goes back to the 19th century, when Europeans tried to document songs sung by slaves on paper.

“It’s enabling and disabling,” Radano said of traditional notation.

“It brings slave songs into public eye, but translates them according to the structures of European tradition.”

Many have tried to tackle these perceived shortcomings.

Classical great Arnold Schoenberg experimented with extending the staff. MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” composer Anthony Braxton tried to classify the different kinds

A ‘dangled’ dream Kimbrough was born in Summit, N.J., in 1960, one of nine children.

His mother was a nurse’s aide and his father was a “rolling stone,” as Kimbrough put it. There wasn’t a lot of money.

“I had a vision I could grow up, find success, buy my mother a house,” Kimbrough said. “I never got to do that.”

There was, however, a lot of music.

After a woman from his church bought him a drum set, Kimbrough started playing for services at age 8.

He switched to piano at 10 when the pastor’s son gave him a lesson.

“I was a total maniac,” Kimbrough said. “I was totally enthralled about playing the piano. I was almost mental.”

In school, Kimbrough was exposed to the lines and staff. It didn’t take.

“I wanted to play the keyboard,” he said. “I couldn’t understand why I would have to do something like that. . . . It seemed stifling.” Explaining his problem another way, he said, “I choose not to read music.”

The next few decades didn’t take Kimbrough far. He graduated from Montclair State College in 1987 with a degree in economics and got a job as a salesman for a company that manufactured custom business forms.

The gig lasted six months. A stream of what Kimbrough described as menial jobs followed. He lived in Philadelphia and eventually relocated to Riverdale Park in Prince George’s County, but life didn’t change much.

“I was talking to my first wife, and said, ‘Remember that job I lost?’”

Kimbrough said. “She said: ‘Which one?’ ” Play the bar scene for quick cash?

No way.

“I only play for churches, strictly church music,” he said. “When you hear me, you’re hearing an actual 100 percent church keyboard player who’s never played rock-and-roll at all.”

In 2004, Kimbrough decided to apply for a patent. People had struggled for decades to convey the subtleties of black music to the masses. Now, Kimbrough thought he could — but he wanted to protect his discovery.

The U.S. Patent Office has issued more than 8 million patents since it opened in 1836. Not all of them changed the world.

Abraham Lincoln had a patent for a riverboat flotation system. Eddie Van Halen has one for a thing that holds a guitar up while a guitar player shreds. And Jamie Lee Curtis has one for a diaper.

“It’s probably far easier to get a patent than you think it is,” said Gene Quinn, a patent attorney and the founder of IP Watchdog, an intellectual property law blog.

Although Quinn said every industry is different, he estimated that 98 percent of patents are not going to make anyone money.

“Right now, for the independent inventor, the dream is dangled, but there’s not a lot offered there as follow-up,” Quinn said.

Still, Kimbrough, who indeed calls himself an “independent inventor,” chased the dream. He showed up at the patent office in 2004 without an attorney or any idea how to apply.

“The only thing that guided me was God’s mercies,” he said.

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(from page 10) studying other patents and with a little earthly help from an engineer he met in the patent office, Kimbrough had the patent protection he sought.

“Nothing got better or worse,” Kimbrough said. When he tells some people he has a patent, he said, “they don’t even know what it is.”

Traditional notation is read from left to right, but as Kimbrough’s patent shows, his is read vertically, like a scroll. The notes the left hand should play are spelled out, by letter name, on the left side of a chart.

Numbers in the center of the chart mark the time, and the right side of the chart spells out the notes for the right hand.

Kimbrough said his system avoids

Aug. 10, 2016 • 11 the idea put forth by lines and staff that the left hand plays harmony while the right hand plays melody.

Black music is different than European music, Kimbrough said, because the chords are in the right hand while the left hand plays a melodic bassline and has a “separate life of its own.”

At least one man swears by Kimbrough’s un­or­tho­dox teaching.

The Rev. Boyce Truesdale said he met Kimbrough at a church service and has been taking lessons with him for about eight years.

“He’s an excellent player and an excellent man,” Truesdale said.

A generation’s fading interest At Praise Temple Church of Christ in Bladensburg, Md., where Kimbrough plays every Sunday

for $250, music is no small part of worship.

“A person can come into our service and feel the charge in the atmosphere,” said James Quarles, the church’s pastor. “You just feel it.

You don’t have to be a singer, you start singing. God comes upon you.”

On one Sunday in July, Kimbrough accompanied three vocalists, two other keyboardists and a last-minute fill-in drummer through more than two hours of largely improvised music in a three-hour service. About a dozen worshipers in pews joined in.

There was no sheet music to be seen.

After the service, sitting behind a Hammond B3000 organ, Kimbrough grew philosophical. What he was doing was dying out, he said.

Millennials don’t have the patience

to develop the artistry he had. The world was overrun by those who expected machines — keyboards, computers — to generate music at the push of a button.

“I’m not a racist,” Kimbrough said.

“I’m a realist.”

The reality was that Patent No. 6977334 is languishing. Kimbrough tries to spread word of its power. He self-published a book titled “How to Play Your First Piano Song in Only 6 Days.” He maintains his website (“You can learn how to play beautiful piano music for Jesus the way you have always dreamed of . . .”).

The world, however, may lack the depth necessary to understand his discovery.

“This thing about this black music,” he said, “it digs deep.”

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White police officer who shot unarmed black man to death guilty of manslaughter in rare guilty verdict STAFF & WIRE A jury convicted a white former police officer of voluntary manslaughter last week in the shooting death of an unarmed black man who had been accused of shoplifting.

Stephen Rankin, who was fired from the Portsmouth police force after being indicted, now faces one to 10 years in prison. The sentencing phase of his trial began immediately.

Rankin, 36, shot William Chapman in the face and chest outside a Wal-Mart store last year after a security guard accused the 18-yearold of shoplifting. There was no video recording of the shooting, and testimony conflicted on the details.

Prosecutors said Chapman had his hands up and the officer could have used nonlethal force. But the defense said Rankin had to shoot after trying to stun the young man because Chapman became enraged and knocked the officer’s stun gun to the ground.

Rankin had already killed another unarmed suspect, four years earlier, and many in Portsmouth, a mostly black city of 100,000, saw his trial as a chance for accountability amid police shootings around the country.

But Rankin’s lawyers said his case had nothing to do with other instances of deadly force being used against black men.

“I think this is a terrible tragedy. I wish it had never happened. I wish none of it had ever occurred,” Rankin testified after being found guilty.

“I can’t begin to fathom how much

Former police officer Stephen Rankin in court in Portsmouth

William Chapman pain that family is going through. I wish I could have done more to keep him alive,” he added.

Chapman’s cousin, Earl Lewis, also took the stand, to discuss the impact of his death, speaking through tears about how the family struggled to find money to bury him.

The jurors — eight black and four white — deliberated for nearly two days before reaching a verdict. They did not convict Rankin on the firstdegree murder charge prosecutors sought.

Criminal charges against officers are rare in police-involved shootings, and convictions are even more uncommon.

Experts say on-duty officers kill about 1,000 suspects a year in the United States, but only 74 have been charged since 2005. A third of these were convicted, a third were not and the other cases are pending.

Persuading jurors to convict officers is always difficult because people tend to give police the benefit of the doubt, said Philip Stinson, a criminal justice professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. “Juries are very reluctant to convict an officer because they all recognize that policing is difficult and violent.”

Some witnesses backed Rankin’s recollection. Paul Akey, a construction worker who was nearby, said Chapman “went after the officer with throwing fists, and it looked like he knocked a Taser out of the officer’s hands.”

Rankin testified that he calmly approached Chapman to discuss the shoplifting accusation and was preparing to handcuff him when the teen refused to comply with his orders and a struggle ensued. He said he used his stun gun on him, but Chapman knocked it away. Both men then faced each other from a short distance.

That’s when he drew his pistol, Rankin said, and repeatedly commanded Chapman to “get on the ground.” Instead, he said Chapman screamed "shoot me” several times before charging at him from about six feet away. He said experienced “tunnel vision” at that point, and

fearing for his life, fired twice to stop him.

“I had no reason to think he was going to stop attacking me,” said Rankin. “I was scared.”

But Gregory Provo, the Wal-Mart security guard who reported the shoplifting allegation, testified that Chapman never charged at the officer. He said Chapman raised both hands, boxing-style, and said “Are you going to f---ing shoot me?” before Rankin fired from about five yards away.

Prosecutor Stephanie Morales told the jury that Rankin “brought a gun into what is at worst a fist fight.”

But defense attorney James Broccoletti said shooting was his only choice after “everything he tried to do didn't work.”

Prosecutors failed to persuade the judge to allow Rankin's ex-wife to testify that he had fantasized about shooting people on the job. In his first on-duty killing, he was cleared of wrongdoing after firing 11 times at a white burglary suspect. He said that man charged at him while reaching into his waistband with his hands.

The judge also refused to allow testimony about Chapman’s criminal record.

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Man selling cancer ‘miracle cure’ for $1,200 a bottle arrested A special herbal mixture which a Virginia man promised could cure cancer proved to be nothing more than a scam, according to local authorities.

The Prince William County drug task force recently raided Peter B. Adeniji's Bristow home as well as his medical office in Manassas, where he slung his $1,200 “miracle cure”.

Officers, who had been following up on a tip they received in late May, seized the ingredients for the concoction and $17,000 in cash, according to published reports.

Police said the 67-year-old was not a licensed doctor and they were unable to identify exactly what the fake cure was made of.

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Kaine on Trump: ‘I think he is confused’ Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine, depicted GOP nominee Donald Trump as a man who is “absolutely” confused and called Trump’s claims about a video showing a plane full of American cash arriving in Iran “bogus.”

Kaine made the remarks in an interview with CBS News. The Virginia senator commented about Trump’s repeated claims last week that he saw video of a plane arriving in Iran with $400 million from the U.S. Trump tweeted that he had been referring to video showing American hostages freed from Iran arriving in Geneva. Trump’s tweet acknowledged his mistake although it came after he claimed at two different rallies that he’d seen video of a cash delivery to Iran.

“I absolutely think he’s confused,” Kaine said in the televised interview.

Kaine said video of the cash payment to Iran doesn’t exist and is a “bogus video claim.”

“He might be thinking about Iran-Contra from 35 years ago or something like this,” Kaine said.

The issue arose after The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the U.S. sent $400 million to Iran at the same time that four American prisoners were released

by Iran's government. The U.S. government maintains, as it did at the time, that the payment was related to an old arms deal, but some critics believe it amounted to a ransom.

Trump argued that the $400 million payment gave the perception that the U.S. paid for the hostages’ freedom.

Kaine said: “Perception is one thing, reality matters more. We got hostages home and we took a legal claim, that was a legit claim, and bargained it down to a fraction and we paid that claim off. That’s the reality.”

When asked if he would do

the same thing the Obama administration did, Kaine said, “I would negotiate any legal claim we had and I would try to get the best deal we could. I would also try to get American hostages home.”

Although Kaine called Trump confused, he would not comment on whether the real estate mogul is sane and competent enough to be president.

“I don’t know Donald Trump, so I’m not going to make any comment about mental capacity,” Kaine said.

“I don’t know him. But again, when you say things, they reveal who you are. And when somebody shows you who they are, you ought to trust that.”

During his interview with CBS, Kaine disputed those who claim a Clinton-Kaine administration would be a third Obama term.

“It's not a third Obama term. And it’s not a third Bill Clinton term. It is the first Hillary Clinton term,” Kaine said. “I think what you’re going to

see in Hillary Clinton’s choice of people around her when she gets in, is a very clear signal that we’re taking advantage of new talent, new ideas, innovative people.”

Kaine, who was a co-chairman of President Obama’s White House bid in 2008, said that Clinton would be able to fight the gridlock in Congress because she has better relationships with Congressional members than President Obama did when he entered the White House.

“She was in the Senate for eight years and then four years as secretary of state, so she has got 12 years of working together with the Senate. When the president was elected, and I’m a big supporter of President Obama and a friend, he had been in the Senate four years.

Two years he was running,” Kaine said. “Yes, on her first day she will have a deeper well of relationships in Congress than President Obama had on his first day.”

Chapman family to sue former officer after conviction WIRE The family of an unarmed black 18-year-old who was shot dead by police officer Stephen Rankin is preparing to sue him and local authorities for millions of dollars in damages, after Rankin was convicted of manslaughter.

An attorney for William Chapman’s mother, Sallie, said he was readying a civil lawsuit that will argue the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, and its former police chief Ed Hargis should never have allowed Rankin to work as a police officer.

“It will be filed within a couple of weeks,” said the attorney, Jon Babineau.

In an article that first confirmed Rankin as the officer who killed Chapman, the Guardian disclosed in June last year that alarms were raised within the Portsmouth police department about Rankin’s conduct even before his first deadly shooting

of an unarmed man, in 2011.

Sallie Chapman said she was not satisfied with Rankin’s conviction for voluntary manslaughter and the jury’s recommended sentence of two and a half years in prison. “It’s not enough,” she said. Rankin will be formally sentenced by Judge Johnny Morrison on Oct. 12 Rankin’s lawyers said he would appeal against his conviction. “The jury should have heard the whole story,” said James Broccoletti, his lead attorney, who complained that he was prevented from citing Chapman’s juvenile criminal record at the trial.

Rankin, 36, killed Chapman outside a Walmart superstore in the city on 22 April 2015, during a confrontation over a suspected shoplifting. He shot Chapman in the face and the chest. Rankin claimed he fired when Chapman aggressively charged at him.

Testifying in his own defense at

Relatives and friends of William Chapman prayed outside Portsmouth circuit court in Virginia as jurors deliberated a murder charge against Stephen Rankin. PHOTO: Jon Swaine Portsmouth circuit court, Rankin appeared to undermine his own case to have acted reasonably, by unexpectedly and repeatedly saying that he had experienced “tunnel vision” when he killed Chapman.

The Guardian published a series of articles about Chapman’s fatal shooting to coincide with the launch

of The Counted, an investigation to document every death caused by police in the U.S. Earl Lewis, a cousin of Chapman who has acted as a family spokesman since the shooting, credited the articles with setting in motion the prosecution of Rankin.

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8.13, 8:30 a.m.

The Henrico County office of the Virginia Cooperative Extension will offer a free workshop to help residents establish and maintain beautiful, healthy lawns.

The SMART Lawn Saturday event will be held until 12:30 p.m. at the Extension office in the Human Services Building, 8600 Dixon Powers Drive.

The workshop will feature presentations by lawn care experts as well as displays and exhibits by local vendors throughout the day.

For information, go to henrico.us/ extension or call 804-501-5160.

8.16, 2 p.m.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian Moran will host, as part of the McAuliffe administration’s continued efforts to foster positive police and community relationships, a series of listening sessions with law enforcement and community partners to solicit recommendations on ways to continue strengthening and sustaining their relationships.

Local law enforcement agencies and community partners have been invited to attend one of four sessions at the Richmond Police Academy, 1202 W. Graham Rd.

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(from page 15) “It instantly changed things,” said Lewis. “Nobody was listening to what we had to say but your article gave Sallie a voice. If it wasn’t for the Guardian, we wouldn’t be here.”

Rankin avoided prosecution for fatally shooting Kirill Denyakin, a hotel cook from Kazakhstan. Rankin shot Denyakin 11 times outside an apartment building in Portsmouth after a 911 caller reported the 26-year-old was banging loudly on the front door. The officer said Denyakin charged at him, the same explanation he gave for opening fire on Chapman.

A close friend of Denyakin said that in light of Rankin’s conviction on Thursday, he intended to make a citizen’s complaint seeking criminal charges against him for the 2011 killing as well. “We will take another swing at this,” said the friend, Maurice Wilson.

Denyakin’s mother, Yelena, watched the entire trial over the past fortnight alongside Sallie Chapman after traveling to Portsmouth from Kazakhstan. “I’m really pleased he was convicted but the sentence is not enough,” she said outside court. “But why didn’t my son get justice when he was shot 11 times?”

A grand jury declined to indict Rankin for Denyakin’s death, and a $22 million civil case that was brought against the officer

by Denyakin’s family ended in failure. Rankin was banned from street patrols and restricted to administrative duties for two and a half years following his shooting of Denyakin, after the Kazakh government complained to the U.S. state department.

Rankin used a pseudonym to taunt Denyakin’s family in comments he posted to the website of the Virginian-Pilot, writing: “$22 mil wont buy your boy back.” He also noted that most Americans couldn’t hope to earn such sums in an entire career, “let alone a habitual drunk working as a hotel cook”.

Prosecutors were barred from telling jurors in the trial over Chapman’s death that Rankin had killed before. The only reference to Denyakin’s death permitted was a video clip recorded by the camera on Rankin’s Taser moments after he shot Chapman. “This is my second one,” he could be heard telling a witness.

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attorney. Also likely to appear are doom-laden mobile messages that Rankin exchanged with colleagues in the hours before he shot Chapman.

“The city sucks, but so does the rest of the world,” Rankin wrote from the computer console in his patrol car about 90 minutes before he killed Chapman. “People are just bad. I think the story was that god would have spared sodam and gomora [sic] if they could have found just 10 decent men, and he wound up smiteing [sic] both cities.”

Morrison, the judge, did not allow the mobile messages into the criminal trial. His ruling meant that after commonwealth’s attorney Stephanie Morales promised in her opening statement to inform jurors about Rankin’s “state of mind” prior to the shooting, her prosecution team was practically unable to do so. Securing the first-degree murder conviction they were seeking would have required proving that Rankin acted with premeditation.

William Chapman: ‘I sat here and waited for my baby to come home.

But he never came home’ Rankin was terminated from his job at the Portsmouth police department after being indicted for Chapman’s murder. Following the shooting he married his long-term girlfriend,

Dawn Burrows, meaning that she cannot be compelled to testify about him in court. Burrows was one of the first medics on the scene at both of Rankin’s fatal shootings.

Other information from Rankin’s past may also come back to haunt him as he faces further legal action.

Prosecutors said in court this week that Cori Johnson, Rankin’s first wife, was ready to testify that he “fantasized about line-of-duty shootings” in 2008 and 2009. The judge declined to allow Johnson’s testimony into the trial.

Rankin and his wife bought a house in nearby North Carolina after he killed Chapman, and he is understood to have made inquiries about police jobs in the area. But under the terms of his bail he is unable to leave Virginia. An avid firearms enthusiast, he will also be barred from possessing a gun if his felony conviction stands.

When he was interviewed under oath by attorneys for Denyakin’s family for the civil lawsuit, Rankin said he had killed a dog “six months to a year” before shooting Denyakin.

Testifying that he had been responding to a “vicious animal” callout, Rankin said he shot the animal seven times.

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