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We need to start building our own economic and business infrastructure and it I have a great respect for Adam but was he Drunk ? To state many of the things is not going to be done with social services.... We need a strategy of BALANCE in that he has here I have ques ons and I wonder if he were threatened like wade our communi es. Norwood was in response to the civilian review board. Things he’s said in this content does not make sense and Rochester needed that review board many ~Alberto O. Cappas, Pres., The EducaƟ onal Pledge” years ago and s ll does . He was quick to men on the Emily good situa on yet forgot about another African American local poli cian namely Willie Ligh oot who was abused and arrested by police offi cers and many at city hall are quick to forget that incident and sweep it under the rug and i’m not impressed at all by Adams and Lovely warrens transparency on the issue; sorry Adam , get it Ci zens Disappointed Over Lack of together because if these cops can do what they have to a black offi cial just think how they see average people of the community. And, all of the people who were “Independence” of Proposed CRB killed by the “south come north mentality crew”, I was around and these cops [News Story: h p://www.minorityreporter.net/fullstory.php?id=1162] would not permit a black cop to murder those of their communi es. ~Don Frazier Dispropor onately the RPD has to work in neighborhoods that have accepted crime as a way of life. This makes policing dicey. I just wish that we ci zens would police ourselves and join the police in correc ng abborrent crime and violence that some mes makes it daun ng for police to do their job without incident. I Let Minority Reporter applaud the new proposed process as a start to get to the core of the problem; ci zens don’t report and follow through on complaints on offi cers. A much more accountable process is being off ered here with points of oversight as the process fl ows through the chart of CRB Agreement. My hope is that this will yield jus ce Help You Grow Your in ma ers where police overstep their authority. Good job by the Councilman and Police Chief and all of the community input off ered to get to this. Remember “ci zen,” do your job to report crimes in our neighborhoods and unethical police Business! offi cers who bend their authority against good ci zens. ~Hanif Abdul-Wahid 888.792.9303 *OVER-THE-AIR ONLY. NOTT AVAILABLE ON CAABLE OR DISH 4 :: WWW.MINORITYREPORTER.NET - WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 17 - 23, 2012 NY Sneaker Store Shoo ng Case Goes to Grand Jury A grand jury will hear the case against shoe store about 4 a.m. two weeks a man accused of gunning down a ago to buy a new pair of $220 Nike 19-year-old as he waited outside a Foamposites. suburban Rochester store for a new pair of sneakers. Police say McKenzie-Smith and another man, 19-year-old William WHEC-TV in Rochester reports that Wilkins, accosted people in the line 21-year-old Kesean McKenzie-Smith’s and demanded cash at gunpoint. They case was waived to a grand jury on say the pair stole cash and property Friday. from several people before shoo ng Bradley. McKenzie-Smith of Rochester was charged last Tuesday with second- Source: AP degree murder and a empted robbery in connec on with the killing of Montre Bradley. Bradley was in line outside a closed 19-year-old Montre Bradley Son of Monroe County GOP Chairman Pleads Not Guilty to Grand Larceny Bill Reilich’s son was arraigned in falsifying business records and off ering unemployment benefi ts from June treatment for a gambling addic on. Rochester City Court last week. a false instrument. 2009 un l January 2010 while s ll working. He is due back in court in October. The son of Monroe County GOP Reilich Jr. who works at the Greater Chairman, William Reilich Jr. plead Rochester Interna onal Airport Reilich’s a orney said his client has not guilty to charges of grand larceny, is accused of claiming $7,700 in paid all the money back and is in Kodak to Cut 1,000 More Employees This Year as it Tries to Exit Bankruptcy NEW YORK — Kodak is reshuffl ing Chief Financial Offi cer Antoine e P. some execu ves and con nuing to cut McCorvey are leaving their posts. jobs as the pioneering photography company tries to emerge from Rebecca A. Roof, a managing director bankruptcy protec on. of AlixPartners, the company’s restructuring advisory fi rm, will Eastman Kodak Co. said it cut become interim CFO. approximately 2,700 employees worldwide since the beginning of the Roof has served in similar capaci es for year, and plans to eliminate roughly other companies that have emerged 1,000 more by 2012’s end. Annual from Chapter 11 restructurings. Kodak savings from these cuts should reach said she has experience in reducing about $330 million, the company said overhead costs, implemen ng cost Monday in a regulatory fi ling. reduc on programs, managing liquidity and raising capital, and Kodak’s workforce peaked in 1988 at execu ng asset sales, which the nearly 150,000 employees. But the company iden fi ed as “cri cal areas of company couldn’t keep up with the focus” as it restructures.