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Kentucky state and federal officials will review Breonna Taylor’s death in a police raid
Louisville Police Chief Steve Conrad says the internal investigation into the police shooting of Breonna Taylor is nearly complete and will be turned over to the Kentucky attorney general, U.S. attorney and FBI. Errol Barnett reports.
A doctor’s memoir shows race matters in the hospital room
In medical school, Dr. Damon Tweedy says he learned about health problems being more common in the black community, but he didn’t hear the reasons why. In “Black Man in a White Coat,” Tweedy examines racial disparities in medicine, for both patients and medical professionals. Sep 15, 2015
Doctor caught refusing to medical treatment to patient in emergency room
Dr. Beth Keegstra (formally worked at El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos) refused to help patient when he arrived at the emergency room after collapsing at his basketball game. The patient says the doctor accused him of going to the hospital in hopes of getting narcotics. Jun 17, 2018
A Look at School Composition
The Black-White achievement gap has been studied extensively, but its relationship to school composition has generally not been examined. In this video, Sami Kitmitto, AIR principal researcher, discusses AIR’s research on the relationship between achievement gaps among Black and White students and the demographic makeup of schools. Working with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), AIR examined how eighth grade achievement data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) relates to the percentage of students in a school who are Black. Kitmitto also discusses the research’s importance amid growing concerns about the re-segregation of schools.
NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, accused of choking Eric Garner to death, fired August 19, 2019.
The New York police officer accused of fatally choking Eric Garner in 2014 has been fired and will not receive his NYPD pension, Commissioner James O’Neill said Monday. “It is clear that Daniel Pantaleo can no longer effectively serve as a New York City Police officer,” he said. Officer Daniel Pantaleo was found guilty in a disciplinary trial earlier this month of using a chokehold on Garner, the New York man whose final words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement. The departmental administrative judge officially recommended Pantaleo be fired. O’Neill, an officer for 34 years, cited that recommendation repeatedly in his announcement on Monday, but he said the decision to terminate Pantaleo was still not easy. The decision comes more than five years after police tried to arrest the 43-year-old father of six, who was allegedly selling loose cigarettes illegally on Staten Island. In video of the arrest, Pantaleo can be seen wrapping one arm around Garner’s shoulder and the other around his neck before jerking him back and pulling him to the ground. As Pantaleo forces Garner’s head into the sidewalk, Garner could be heard saying “I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.” He died shortly afterward.