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LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 2 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM February 5 - February 11, 2018 Gov Week of February 5 - February 11, 2018 92nd year of providing ‘News that matters’ VOL.. XCIIII NO.. 21 Since 1925 www.louisianaweekly.com 50 cents Proposed budget DA GNretnaA man wehov hasi sderveed nalmcost efou r ponr Wohitvney eAvesnu e Gin Grertnea. tna mahadn a c’onssen siuanl encnounoter cwiteh a nwhitce weom an cuts to Office of decades behind bars for a rape he says he The victim, who was white, was grabbed who asked him for money and then later didn’t commit has finally been exonerated by from behind in the empty store by a Black accused him of sexual assault. DNA evidence. man and taken to a small, dark, private bath - This encounter, which was uncorroborated Juvenile Justice The Innocence Project recently issued a news room in the back of the store where she was and later dropped by the police, prompted release that said Malcolm Alexander has always raped from behind with a gun to her head, police to place Alexander’s photo in a photo maintained his innocence of the November 8, according to the release. blasted 1979 rape of the owner of a new antique store In February 1980, Alexander, who is Black, Continued on Pg. 9 By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer Louisiana State Senator J.P. Morrell pub - lished a blistering op-ed on February 1 criti - cizing proposed budget cuts to the state’s Office of Juvenile Justice (OJJ). “We can’t afford to give up on our kids,” Morrell wrote. “They depend on us, and we can’t let them down.” In a budget proposal outlined by Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on January 22, there were $994 million of state cuts. These include what Morrell called “significant” cuts to the OJJ. If these cuts occur, an already taxed system of juvenile justice will offer fewer options to juvenile offenders. “Youth who are included in the juvenile sys - tem are less likely to re-offend because the sys - tem is better suited to meet the unique needs of HURCH adolescents,” Morrell wrote. “OJJ provides rig - HURCH orous programming and rehabilitative services that are simply not available in the adult sys - AA CC tem. If OJJ and its partner agencies like the Department of Health are slashed, they will no longer be able to provide the essential services Continued on Pg. 9 IIVVIIDDEED PD hoto by Amandi Rock Sentencing of DD Ronald Gasser Congregants of merge churches, who came together set for March 15 after Katrina, in dispute over property rights After an eight-day trial and more than seven By C.C. Campbell-Rock Church in Christ (CCUCC). KOLA is suing Jones, a longtime civil rights lawyer. hours of deliberation, a Jefferson Parish jury Contributing Writer Central St. Matthew United Church in Christ Central St. Matthew is a hybrid entity, the on Jan. 26 convicted 56-year-old Ronald (CSM-UCC) to stop the church from selling result of merging two churches, Central Gasser of manslaughter in the Dec. 1, 2016 Amid Black History Month celebrations, a off the remainder of Central’s properties. Congregation United Church in Christ killing of former NFL player Joe McKnight. tale of two churches has emerged in New The group is praying that the Fourth Circuit (Central) founded by African Americans in Sentencing has been set for March 15. Gasser Orleans reminiscent of the same injustices Court of Appeal in March 2018 will deliver the 1872. St. Matthew United Church in Christ faces a sentence of zero to 40 years. African Americans have fought against for property back to members of Central (St. Matthew), located at 1333 South The road-rage incident made national head - centuries in America. From land grabs to Congregational Church, so the church’s proper - Carrollton Avenue, was initially the German lines in part because it was the second deadly redlining and predatory lending, to post- ties can continue to be used for activities that Evangelical Church of Carrollton founded in road-rage incident involving a former NFL play - Katrina property auctions by the city and gen - benefit residents in the Bienville Street corridor 1849 by German immigrants. er in the New Orleans area in 2016 and because trification, Blacks in New Orleans continue to and its historic legacy in the state’s civil rights KOLA is fighting to retain Central’s proper - the victim was Black and the shooter was white. struggle to hold on to their hard-earned land. movement can be memorialized ties so members can continue its mission to The fatal shooting occurred just months after Trying to hold on to their church’s land is “We are asking the Fourth Circuit Court of serve the African-American community and the police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton the mission of Keep Our Legacy Alive Appeal to rule that there can be no sale of the less fortunate in Mid-City and keep the civil Rouge and Philando Castille near Minneapolis, (KOLA), a coalition of former members of property, unless the proper consent was given Minnesota led to the killing of three Baton the historic Central Congregational United by all involved,” says KOLA’s attorney Ernest Continued on Pg. 16 Rouge police officers and five Dallas, Texas law enforcement officers. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office came under fire after it didn’t immediately arrest Gasser after the fatal shooting. He was arrested four days after the inci - dent and initially charged with manslaugh - ter. That charge was later upgraded to sec - Federal jury rejects civil rights claims against troopers ond-degree murder. After a four-day trial in New awarded no compensation, the Black males who say they were few years, including the violent During closing arguments, prosecutors and Orleans, a federal jury rejected a verdict vindicated “Dotson’s right racially profiled, targeted and stop of New Orleans trumpeter defense lawyers argued that the day of the shoot - series of civil rights claims not to be seized by a Louisiana attacked by state troopers, con - Shamarr Allen who was stopped in ing was one of a challenge versus a choice. against three members of the state trooper for the purpose of tends that state troopers routinely 2014 by state troopers while driv - “This was a challenge on the bridge. He Louisiana State Police who were taking his picture.” use excessive force against Black ing to his Ninth Ward home after a (Gasser) felt Mr. McKnight challenged him on accused of racially profiling and “We are studying the verdict people in the French Quarter. The late-night gig in the French the bridge,” prosecutor Seth Schute told the unlawfully detaining a Black col - and plan to seek further review,” plaintiffs, represented by the Quarter. The state troopers report - jury. “Gasser said, ‘I’m not going to let it go.’ lege student while he was visit - Craig told The New Orleans MacArthur Justice Center, claimed edly followed and stopped Allen ing the French Quarter in 2015 . Advocate . “The people of New that the Louisiana State Police con - because they were searching for an The jury awarded no compensa - Orleans should be alarmed that done the “unjustified harassment escaped suspect. Also cited was an Continued on Pg. 9 tion to the plaintiff, Lyle Dotson, the State Police are a threat to the of African Americans in New incident involving a Black barber even though it found that one of the constitutional rights of law-abid - Orleans, including the detention who was sitting in his car checking state troopers violated his Fourth ing residents of — and visitors to and arrest of African Americans messages on his phone outside his Amendment rights. — New Orleans.” without probable cause.” shop in the CBD when he was Jim Craig, the plaintiff’s attor - The federal lawsuit, which cites a The lawsuit cited several inci - ney, said that even though the jury number of incidents involving dents that took place over the past Continued on Pg. 9 THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 2 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM February 5 - February 11, 2018 Gov. Edwards and Louisiana’s GOP deficit deal looming By Christopher Tidmore based supe rvision in the Office taxes, but without the politically the savings in the model results Party Republicans have joined falls, how can we consider rais - Contributing Writer of Juvenile Justice — with toxic fight that might have from an expectation of fewer with Black Caucus members in ing taxes and expanding govern - potential devastating impacts on occurred from members still reel - doctor visits to reimburse, an unusual coalition to decry the ment? The rate of growth by A seeming agreement seems to recidivism rates. ing from the repeal of the unpop - despite the modest amount of the tax hike’s impact on the poor. government should never out - be coming together in the legisla - Gov. Edwards described his ular Stelly Plan. co-pay. Revenue Estimators However, a sales tax seems to pace the private sector. This is ture to fix the $1.1 billion “fiscal own budget as “honest” but Call it Stelly-like, limiting also expected that the Governor’s be the only revenue raising how you fix the budget problem. cliff,” strangely enough due to “ugly,” only hoping that the leg - income tax deductions (as John endorsement of a work-require - measure capable of garnering the Grow the economy. More jobs Trump tax cuts and a controver - islature finds enough extra Bel Edwards himself once pro - ment for Medicaid recipients constitutionally mandated two equals more taxes paid.” sial plan to charge a co-pay for money to make sure it is “dead posed) without having to engage would provide fiscal some sav - thirds majority in the State Nevertheless, Schroder, a for - Medicaid services.
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