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Just days before Wear Orange Weekend 2021, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) today announced the launch of the Heroes Campaign, a national advocacy effort to secure critical federal funding for community violence intervention programs. The campaign is AIUSA’s latest effort to bring attention to and to end gun violence that disproportionately affects Black and brown communities throughout the country.
The campaign kicks off with a virtual live panel discussion at 7:00 PM EST and features six leaders from grassroots violence prevention groups, “heroes” who work tirelessly on the front lines to save lives in their communities. These heroes will discuss how local organizations’ leaders continue to fight the erasure of Black and brown youth from the national conversation, and how proper funding from lawmakers can help curb violence in the most affected communities.
BLM Cleveland demonstrators express relief, cautious optimism as cop found guilty of murdering George Floyd
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Black Lives Matter Cleveland holds rally after guilty verdict for police officer Derek Chauvin, April 20, 2021
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Juanita Rucker said she was praying as she watched a judge in Minnesota read the jury’s verdict in former police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial.
Rucker, a Cleveland resident, knows the pain of losing a loved one like George Floyd’s family. Gathered with dozens of others at Public Square in downtown Cleveland on Tuesday evening, she identified herself as the godmother of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot and killed by police outside Cudell Recreation Center in 2014. Nobody was criminally charged or convicted in Rice’s death.
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3News Investigates exclusive series A Tale of Two Cities : Rising violence, falling arrests in Cleveland
The city saw its homicides surge to 177 in 2020, but police solved less than half of those cases. Author: Rachel Polansky (WKYC), Phil Trexler Published: 10:28 PM EST February 10, 2021 Updated: 1:55 AM EST February 11, 2021
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Crime is up during the COVID-19 pandemic, across the nation and here in Northeast Ohio. Thursday begins our two-part series A Tale of Two Cities, in which we investigate why crime is growing in both Cleveland and Akron and what we can do to stop it.
3News investigator Rachel Polansky kicks off our series in Cleveland.
In-Depth: Local youth outreach agencies address growing teen violence
Local youth outreach agencies address growing teen violence
and last updated 2020-12-17 12:07:53-05
CLEVELAND â The Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio are urging local leaders to work on a comprehensive plan for better community outreach to curb growing inner-city teen violence.
Jeff Scott, President of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio, said he is heartbroken over two shootings that claimed the lives of 15-year-old Anthony Hughes Jr. and 13-year-old Ja-mari Jones over the past week.
Police reported Hughes Jr. had just left a Boys and Girls Club location when he was shot by someone on Dec. 9 near the intersection of East 55th Street and Scovill Avenue.