ET spoke with Tina Knowles Lawson backstage after she presented Trae with the award, and she had even more praise for the amazing young man. [He s doing] the real work and not caring about, you know, the credit for it, so this makes it more special for him to be on tonight. I m so excited, she shared. It doesn t take much. Everybody thinks that they have to do so much, but if you help one person and that person helps one person you spread it all around the world, and so it s easy to be a change maker.
The Change Maker Award honors an artist or group that speaks truth to power through their music, celebrity and community. Trae is the second-ever recipient of the honor, after Killer Mike of hip-hop duo Run the Jewels received the inaugural accolade at the 2020 BBMAs.
Kentucky caregiver sentenced in abuse of vulnerable adult
May 24, 2021
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SOMERSET, Ky. (AP) A man who pleaded guilty to abusing a vulnerable adult at a Kentucky care facility has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Daniel L. Wright II, 39, was convicted of wanton abuse or neglect of a vulnerable adult and sentenced by Circuit Judge John T. Prather Jr. on Thursday, according to a statement from Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office.
Wright was also ordered to be placed on the state’s caregiver misconduct registry, a resource that agencies can use while screening potential employees.
Wright was working at a Pulaski County facility for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in May 2019 when he was accused of repeatedly kicking a “vulnerable adult,” leaving the man with severe injuries, prosecutors said.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. Eight months after its promised creation, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron s Search Warrant Task Force convened for its first meeting Monday, laying the groundwork for the next seven months of work.
Cameron said the group will focus on the processes of securing, reviewing and serving warrants and aims to make recommendations for changes by the end of the year.
The task force was spurred into creation by the heavy scrutiny surrounding the search warrant Louisville Metro Police secured for Breonna Taylor s apartment the night officers fatally shot the 26-year-old Black woman.
Taylor was not mentioned by name during the meeting, which lasted for more than an hour.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) For the people marching in the streets for more than a year after the killing of Breonna Taylor, a wide-ranging new federal investigation of policing in Louisville is seen as one more chance for justice. The demonstrations big and small have led to lawsuits and complaints that police are abusing the […]