Earlier this month, in our Best of the Triangle issue, the INDY praised Durham City Councillor Jillian Johnson for her commitment to “keeping it real,” noting that, even though she’s now an elected official, Johnson continues to be an active presence at civil rights protests across Durham. Perhaps it was inevitable, then, that Johnson has […]
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The Morning Roundup: The Greatest
Good morning, congratulations on surviving that hellish nightmare on Saturday. Let’s get right to it.1. RIP Muhammad Ali. An American legend passed away Friday night in Scottsdale, Arizona at the age of 74. There’s nothing I could say that hasn’t been already said by the man himself, his friends, and/or people much smarter than me, […]
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Raises – Health Insurance Hikes = Less Money for Some Raleigh Cops
Raleigh city manager Ruffin Hall unveiled his proposed budget last week, and it gives city employees a 3 to 3.5 percent “merit pay” increase. But for the more than twenty- five hundred employees, including the majority of cops, who make less than $55,000 a year, that raise could effectively be erased by proposed changes to […]
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Durham Is Totally Fine with Its New Top Cop’s Past
Incoming Durham police chief Cerelyn Davis held her first Bull City press conference Monday morning, and she was about as specific as a Bill Belichick post-game interview. Swap “one game at a time” for “establish strong community-police relations,” and you get the picture. If you trained your ears, however, there were some faint notes of […]
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Attorney: 90 Percent of Durhamites Charged with Resisting Arrest Are Black
Durham-based attorney Scott Holmes can’t help but laugh when the police report is read to him over the phone. After all, the alleged language used by his thirty-four-year-old client, Kevin Love, toward Durham police officer R.A. Ingram was pretty salty. But Holmes is quite certain about one thing: his client was likely charged with “resisting, […]
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Activists Want a Police Oversight Board in Raleigh
On Saturday, an attorney working with Akiel Denkins’s family and the NAACP challenged the Raleigh Police Department’s version of how the twenty-four-year-old man was fatally shot by Officer D.C. Twiddy on Leap Day [“Four Shots on Bragg Street,” March 9]. “What we can say, based on initial review by our forensic pathologist, is that there […]
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Raleigh Cops Want a Raise
In a video that’s circulating online, Bobby Hudson, an officer with the Raleigh Police Department, talks about working twelve-hour shifts each day to support his family. “I cannot live in the city of Raleigh with the pay being so low; just my mortgage alone takes up one of my entire paychecks,” Hudson says. Hudson says […]
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Man tasered by Durham police at Harris Teeter no longer faces trespassing charges
Trespassing charges were dropped Wednesday against 24-year-old Deonte Holder, who was tasered by Durham police on Sept. 9 after he refused to leave the Ninth Street Harris Teeter for unspecified reasons. According to Bull City Rising, the charges were dismissed after witnesses—employees at the Harris Teeter—failed to show up in court. The arrest story went […]
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N.C. House approves $5 million for police body cams
Creative Commons License In North Carolina and nationwide, the debate over police body cameras rages on. State lawmakers made a modest splash on the subject during Thursday’s marathon budget talks in the state House, allotting $5 million in grant funding over the next two years for body cameras and the requisite training. It’s a matching […]
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Smart phone app for taping police now available
Creative Commons License Police accountability, and how best to ensure fairness and transparency from our most scrutinized civil servants, is a hot topic these days. Entering the fray, the ACLU of N.C. has released a free smart phone application which will allow users to record videos of police interactions and submit those videos to the […]