Bryan Adams student headed to Texas A&M after overcoming homelessness to finish in top 15 of her class See PAGE 7 2726 S. Beckley Ave • Dallas, Texas 75224 ISSN # 0746-7303 P.O. Box 570769 Dallas, Texas 75357 - 0769 50¢ Serving Dallas More Than 70 Years — Tel. 214 946-7678 - Fax 214 946-7636 — Web Site: www.dallasposttrib.com — E-mail: [email protected] SERVING THE BLACK COMMUNITY WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR SINCE 1947 VOLUME 72 NUMBER 37 May 28 - June 3, 2020 Four Minneapolis officers fired after death of black man could not breathe as a white officer press his hurts, everything hurts ... I white officer knelt on his knee into a Black man’s can’t breathe.” As neck. neck. Five minutes. When bystanders shout their Minneapolis Mayor you hear someone calling concern, one officer says, Jacob Frey announced the for help, you’re supposed “He’s talking, so he’s firings on Twitter, saying to help. This officer failed breathing.” “This is the right call.” in the most basic, human But the man stops talk- The man’s death sense,” Frey posted. ing — and slowly Monday night was under Police said the man becomes motionless under investigation by the FBI matched the description of the officer’s restraint. The and state law enforcement a suspect in a forgery case officer does not remove authorities. It immediately at a grocery store, and that his knee until the man is drew comparisons to the he resisted arrest. loaded onto a gurney by case of Eric Garner, an The video of the inci- paramedics. unarmed black man who dent starts with the shirt- Several witnesses had died in 2014 in New York less man on the ground, gathered on a nearby side- after he was placed in a and does not show what walk, some recording the chokehold by police and happened in the moments scene on their phones. The pleaded for his life, saying prior. The unidentified bystanders became he could not breathe. officer is kneeling on his increasingly agitated. One Frey apologized to the neck, ignoring his pleas. man yelled repeatedly. People gather and pray around a makeshift memorial, Tuesday, May 26, 2020, in black community early “Please, please, please, I “He’s not responsive right Minneapolis, near the site where a black man, who was taken into police custody the day Tuesday in a post on his can’t breathe. Please, now!” Two witnesses, before, later died. The FBI and Minnesota agents are investigating the death of a black man Facebook page for the man,” said the man, who including one woman who in Minneapolis police custody after video from a bystander showed a white officer kneeling officer’s conduct, which has his face against the said she was a on his neck during his arrest as he pleaded that he couldn't breathe. (Elizabeth Flores/Star included keeping his knee pavement. Minneapolis firefighter, Tribune via AP) on the man after he The man also moans. yelled at the officers to stopped moving. One of the officers tells check the man’s pulse. By AMY FORLITI — Four Minneapolis offi- fired Tuesday, hours after “Being Black in the man to “relax.” At one “Check his pulse right and JEFF BAENEN cers involved in the arrest a bystander’s video America should not be a point the man calls for his now and tell me what it of a black man who died showed the handcuffed death sentence. For five mother and says: “My is!” she said. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) in police custody were man pleading that he minutes, we watched a stomach hurts, my neck Stimulus payment for 4 COVID-19 Obituary million Americans to arrive data sharing by prepaid debit card with law Millie Marie Cavil Ferguson enforcement A&M University, Prairie View, Texas; Vocational sparks Certification, Texas concern Woman’s University, Denton, Texas and achieved advanced studies at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Millie retired from the Dallas Independent School District after twen- By Steve Noviello /Fox 4 News DALLAS - Instead of direct deposit or even a paper ty-eight years of service. NASHVILLE, Tenn. check, four million people will find their stimulus pay- Her life’s work included (AP) — More than 11 mil- ment arrive in the form of a prepaid debit card. teaching in the Dallas The IRS set a deadline of May 13 to enter your direct lion people have been test- Independent School ed in the U.S. for COVID- deposit information if you hadn't already received your District, as well as, assist- 19, all with the assurance stimulus payment and wanted it placed directly in your ing her husband, Floyd, in that their private medical account. Those who didn't will find their stimulus pay- his photography business. ment arrive in the form of a pre-paid debit card from information would remain They would both attend MetaBank. protected and undisclosed. Millie Marie Cavil Ferguson community and family The cards, unlike the checks, will not come from the Yet, public officials in at activities and capture treasury department. Instead they will come in a plain least two-thirds of states Millie Marie Cavil San Antonio, Texas. She those images as special white envelope directly from MetaBank. are sharing the addresses Ferguson was born April earned a Bachelor of You can use the card to withdraw cash. You can use it memories that would last a of people who tested posi- 14, 1932 to the parents of Science Degree, graduat- like a debit card to pay rent or make purchases. You can lifetime. Millie was also tive with first responders Fred D. Cavil and Robbie ing Cum Laude from also shop online. — from police officers to an editor at the Dallas Post Beware: Just like a traditional debit card linked to Nelson Cavil. To that Tillotson College, Austin, firefighters to EMTs. An Tribune newspaper, and your checking account, this one may have fees associ- union three children were Texas (which later became Associated Press review wrote and edited articles ated with it depending on how you use it. Out of net- born: Fred Avery Cavil; Huston-Tillotson found that at least 10 of of importance and special work ATMs carry a $2 fee each time other than the and twins, Millie Marie University.) Millie earned those states also share the interest to the citizens of first time you use one. That fee is on top of whatever and Willie Morie Cavil. a Master of Education patients’ names. Dallas. the out of network ATM charges you itself. Millie was a native of Degree from Prairie View See PAGE 5 See PAGE 5 See PAGE 8 Recognizing #BLACK EXCELLENCE for 72 years May 28 - June 3, 2020 The Dallas Post Tribune Page 2 After five-week battle with COVID-19, Dallas pastor now faces rejection from peers By Shaun Rabb/Fox4 DALLAS - Some who have overcome COVID- 19 now are forced to swal- low the bitter pill of being treated differently by some of the people they've known for a very long time. Treating people differ- ently who are victorious Outside of family, threat,” she said. over the virus is an out- Jacobs is experiencing Wall says those who've growth of fear of the rejection. had the virus are in con- unknown, one psycholo- “After overcoming some trol. gist says. A Dallas pastor of the challenges he's fac- “What you get to say is, who beat the illness is now ing, it’s rejection,” said ‘I’m safe. I know you're battling coronavirus con- Dareia Jacobs, Eli’s wife. worried about it. Let me sequences. “He's dealing with, ‘Oh! tell you what it was like Bishop Eli Jacobs is he still might have the Do you have any ques- back with his wife and COVID. No!’” tions,’” Wall said. “As the new baby. “We're grateful for each vanguard they were at the A few weeks ago, Jacobs and every survivor. We vanguard of becoming ill had just come home from celebrate the fact that and coming out on the hospitalization after a they've gone through and other side, and they do five-week fight with come out on the other have an opportunity to let COVID-19. Two negative side,” said Psychologist us know I’m safe. I’m not tests show he's now virus- Dr. Brenda Wall. “But a threat.” free. what it does is it untaps Jacobs now knows the “You got to have two fear in our community. consequences of coron- before you can go out or There's a lot of fear.” avirus go beyond the even go back to work,” he Fear because of what we physical to the psycholog- said. don't know about the ical. Jacobs is free of the virus, says Dr. Wall, and “You can overcome virus, but not over the where we can't manage this,” he said. “But it can effects of the virus fear. We find something or bother you mentally.” “Didn't know it was someone to be the object Dr. Wall says it is impor- going to cause so much of that fear. tant for people who have chaos,” he said. “When we see someone recovered to talk about the who's been through it, we trauma and the loss caused Not on himself, but oth- think maybe they're a by the illness. ers. threat without accepting While the virus is chang- “I’ve been trying to go responsibility for the fact ing society, Bishop Jacobs out and get a haircut,” he that the people who are wants you to know he's the said.