Evansville NAACP President reacts to verdict in Chauvin trial
Evansville NAACP President reacts to verdict in Chauvin trial By Evan Gorman | April 20, 2021 at 9:51 PM CDT - Updated April 20 at 10:51 PM
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts in the death of George Floyd.
On Tuesday evening, 14 News caught up with NAACP President Reverend Gerald Arnold about the verdict.
Reverend Arnold shared with us that there were some apprehension and fears that there wouldn’t be justice because he says there has been disappointment in the past. He added this case may be an exception after hearing the verdict.
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n Evansville, Indiana, the NAACP and IBEW are training
Black people for work in the clean energy industry, aiming for an equitable transition away from fossil fuels
By Audrey Henderson
Sidney Mobley was struggling. Mobley, a welder in Evansville, Indiana, had not done much welding in the past two years, because the company that represented his main source of work moved its operations to Italy. Faced with dwindling income and a nonworking vehicle, he moved in with his sister, picking up occasional welding work and other odd jobs wherever he could. “The type of welding I did [was] pressure welding,” he said. “I was making gas fired air conditioners. I’ve been working at different places. I worked at a place that welds tire metal rims for, like, Tora and Honda lawnmowers and stuff. It really wasn’t nothing complicated compared to making gas fired air conditioners.”