Neighborhood leaders take police investigation to community
By
Ann Thompson 11/19/2009 4:38:27 PM
In the Cincinnati neighborhood where the family of a police shooting victim lives, community leaders are trying to change the thinking of young people. They want to avoid further confrontations with police. WVXU’S Ann Thompson reports.
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THOMPSON: President of the Concerned Clergy of Avondale Emmis Tait congratulates police for handling the investigation so professionally into the shooting death of Randolf Ward. Tate attended Wednesday’s news conference with the Police Chief and says the incident and its outcome were not a slight on any race or community. Tate will take that message back to his neighborhood through a variety of means.
TAIT: There are several vehicles, email and talking with some of the pastors via phone. Just talking about the issue, as they see it, if they have questions, to let them know we where here, and we can get copies of that material to those respective areas.
THOMPSON: He wants to encourage the community to stay positive and proactive about issues like this, and let young people know the consequences if they escalate a police arrest. Tait is responding to a request by Mayor Mark Mallory. He wants to let people know they are making a choice.
Mallory: There’s not a circumstance that requires a young person to draw a firearm on a Cincinnati Police Officer in an attempt to deal with the issues that the young man may have had.
THOMPSON: Ward was shot and killed Tuesday after shooting a gun at police after a routine traffic stop.
Ann Thompson 91.7 WVXU
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