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Volume 96 Number 47 | JULY 10-16, 2019 | MiamiTimesOnline.com | Ninety-Three Cents Travis McNeil Tarnorris Gaye DeCarlos Moore Lynn Weatherspoon Brandon Foster Killed Feb. 11, 2011 Killed Aug. 20, 2010 Killed July 5, 2010 Killed Jan. 1, 2011 Killed Dec. 17, 2010 Federal oversight after multiple shooting of Black men to end as racial incidents persist FELIPE RIVAS [email protected] t has been eight years since Travis McNeil was killed at the hands of a Miami Police officer. His mother, Sheila McNeil, misses him every day. Her son died in February 2011 when Reynaldo Goyos shot him as he reached for something in his car during a traffic stop. No weapon was found on Travis IMcNeil. That day, Feb. 11, 2011, Travis ment admitted no wrongdoing and as evidence as well as a weak McNeil became the seventh Black the justice department withheld performance by the independent person shot and killed by Miami "any claim of use of deadly force." reviewer. Police officers in the span seven Part of the agreement resulted in But less than 10 months before months – from July 2010 to Febru- monitoring and oversight of the the deadline, the independent re- ary 2011. The shootings created force. The feds appointed local viewer in charge of overseeing the tensions and policing concerns in overseers to improve the depart- agreement cannot continue her Overtown, Little Haiti and Liberty ment's culture and practices. It job. What's more, she has recom- Joel Johnson Gibson Junion Belzaire City neighborhoods and caused was to continue until March 2020. mended an end to the oversight of Killed Aug. 10, 2010 Killed Aug. 14, 2010 a political backlash at Miami City Travis McNeil's dead was a cat- the Miami Police much to chagrin Hall. alyst to changing the way Miami of the Miami Police chief and com- The feds stepped in. cops police Black people. But munity members. In March 2016, the U.S. Depart- local advocates say more work Meanwhile families still have ment of Justice settled with the needs to be done, and pointed to to cope with the deaths of sons, City of Miami and the Miami Po- two racially motivated incidents brothers, fathers and uncles. lice. The city and its police depart- during the monitoring period SEE POLICE 6A DISTRICT 102 Charter schools, voting, on candidates’ minds April, she launched her Dis- said to The Miami Times. “We Familiar faces from Miami Gardens trict 102 campaign. Robinson need to address what’s hap- and Miramar seen in lawmaking race spoke about her work in the pening in our area.” public school system and On education, she is for PHILIPPE H. BUTEAU volunteer from Miramar and on the Miami Gardens City comprehensive sex education Miami Times Contributor Matthew Tisdol, a Miami Council, and her interests in for students in ninth grade or Gardens resident who pre- gun and voter reforms. higher and wants more over- Two people who served to- viously ran for a House seat. Robinson served in the only sight of charter schools The gether on the Miami Gardens The current representative city in Miami-Dade County Miami-Dade County Public dais are vying for the District is Sharon Pritchett, who will where crime is up, some 25 School system does not over- 102 seat. Felicia S. Robinson face term limits in 2020 and percent according to a recent see charter schools. Taxpayer and David Williams Jr. will must vacate the seat she has Miami Herald report. money is used to fund charter go up against each other to held since 2012. She said she will research schools. represent parts of Pembroke Robinson was on the Miami what cities can do about gun “Some may say money Pines, Miramar and Miami Gardens City Council from laws, but did not commit to should follow the students, Gardens. 2010 until she reached the sponsoring legislation on ac- and I wouldn’t take that away. They will battle each oth- maximum number of terms cess to firearms. But I would look into over- er and two other candidates, she could serve in November Felicia Robinson, a termed out Miami Gardens city “I think municipalities sight into charter schools so Dennis M. Hinds, a political 2018. A few months later, in councilwoman, is throwing in her hat for District 102. should have a say,” Robinson SEE SCHOOLS 4A BUSINESS ................................................. 8B YOU & YOURS ............................................ 7D Today CLASSIFIED ............................................. 11B FAITH CALENDAR ................................... 8D 89° IN GOOD TASTE ......................................... 1C HEALTH & WELLNESS ............................. 9D LIFESTYLE HAPPENINGS ....................... 5C OBITUARIES ............................................. 12D 2C 8 90158 00100 0 INSIDE Editorials Cartoons Opinions Letters VIEWPOINT BLACKS MUST CONTROL THEIR OWN DESTINY | JULY 10-16, 2019 | MiamiTimesOnline.com Credo Of The Black Press MEMBER: National Newspaper Periodicals Postage EDITORIAL Publisher Association paid at Miami, Florida (ISSN 0739-0319) The Black Press believes that America MEMBER: The Newspaper POSTMASTER: Published Weekly at 900 NW 54th Street, can best lead the world from racial and Association of America Send address changes to Miami, Florida 33127-1818 national antagonism when it accords Subscription Rates: One Year THE MIAMI TIMES, The principal Post Office Box 270200 to every person, regardless of race, $65.00 – Two Year $120.00 P.O. 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BLOW, columnist, New York Times In each case, however, there are people to whom facts don’t I am simply disgusted by New York Times reported it. matter. Some of their absurdities, such as a flat earth, are sim- what’s happening in Ameri- Don’t just keep reading. ply silly. Others are malicious and dangerously harmful. ca. Don’t just think that you’ve Holocaust denial is one of the evil ones. It’s an “essential America, it seems to me, is heard this before. Don’t just manifestation of anti-Semitism,” according to the Southern drifting toward catastrophe. think that this kind of “be- Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups. The ancient Donald Trump is leading havior” is baked into how pestilence is a growing menace again in the United States, as How to weigh us there. Republican politi- people feel about Trump. Go one woman’s well as around the world. cians are afraid to upset him; back and read that last para- To deny that 6 million people were murdered simply for be- Democratic politicians are graph. Read it slowly. Place tale of victimization ing Jewish is to dehumanize the living, as well as the dead. It afraid to impeach him. To yourself — or your mother, — or that of multiple glosses over the ghastly crimes perpetrated by the Nazis, the many of us, he is desolation, or your wife, sister, daughter, women — by poison spouted by their counterparts at Charlottesville and the or the possibility thereof. cousin, girlfriend or friend — Trump“ against a world targeting of Jews at synagogues in Pennsylvania, California and Take for instance the lat- in that dressing room. Imag- being driven into New Zealand. est sexual accusation against ine the struggle. Imagine the In much the same way, those who romanticize the anti-bel- chaos by Trump?" Trump: Advice colum- violation. Imagine the anger. E. Jean Carroll lum South and gloss over the savagery of slavery – spinning the nist E. Jean Carroll alleges And now remember that Civil War as having been about anything else – are perpetrat- that Trump sexually assault- the alleged perpetrator is it never happened. It never offense. ... absolutely the ing the racism that rationalized and survived slavery. Whether ed her in 1995 or 1996 in a now the president. And, re- happened, O.K.?” most revelatory about char- such people are consciously racist or not is a distinction with- Bergdorf Goodman dressing member that Carroll is by Well, sir, which type for acter, privilege and abuse of out a difference. room. Carroll doesn’t call it no means alone; a chorus of you is rape-worthy? power. We can’t say whether William Latson, the former principal of rape, but rape is what she de- other women have also ac- To you, America, I ask: Carroll’s allegation fits the Spanish River High School, is an anti-Semite. His widely quot- scribes. cused Trump of sexual mis- What is the breaking point? behaviors that have been es- ed remarks to a concerned parent don’t prove that he person- Carroll writes that Trump conduct. Is there a breaking point? tablished or alleged. Amer- ally denies the Holocaust. But he did give Holocaust denial an “pushed her against the wall, But, Carroll’s account Does nothing now matter ica owes it to itself to deep- undeserved and indefensible respectability, a false equivalency pushed his mouth against stands out for its brutality that used to matter? ly ponder it, and possibly with historical truth.