Pamela Smith Named First Black Woman Chief of U.S. Park Police
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Published April 8, 2021
USPP Chief Smith (AP Photo)
Pamela A. Smith, a 23-year veteran of the United States Park Police, will lead the nation’s oldest federal law enforcement agency.
Chief Smith, who becomes the first African American woman to lead the 230-year-old agency, immediately remarked that she would establish a body-worn camera program for USPP within 90 days.
The program will initially begin in San Francisco and be implemented across the country by the end of the year, Chief Smith stated.
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Teen robotics club in Pine Bluff competing in 2021 FIRST Robotics Competition
Laura Hildreth helped create the teen robotics club after seeing a lack of program resources. She has fully funded the club herself to make a difference. Author: Jade Jackson Updated: 6:46 PM CDT March 31, 2021
PINE BLUFF, Ark Three years ago, Laura Hildreth helped to create a teen robotics club after seeing a lack of program resources and the need for local youth to learn about robotics and STEM projects outside of the classroom.
She s the project program coordinator for the STEM Academy at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and has funded the club herself to make a difference in the community.
Pamela A. Smith
Pamela A. Smith, a 23-year veteran of the United States Park Police, will lead the nation’s oldest federal law enforcement agency.
Smith, who became the first African American woman to lead the 230-year-old agency, immediately remarked that she would establish a body-worn camera program for USPP within 90 days.
The program will initially begin in San Francisco and be implemented across the country by the end of the year, Smith said.
“Body-worn cameras are good for the public and good for our officers, which is why I am prioritizing implementing a body-worn camera program within my first 90 days,” Smith offered in a statement.
I Felt Total Joy as I Saw Him Die
David Bowman, American Renaissance, March 13, 2021
In 1998, a black criminal named Kenneth Williams kidnapped Dominique Hurd, a cheerleader at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, and her friend. After forcing them to get him cash at several ATMs, Williams shot both his victims and drove away in their car. The friend survived, but Hurd did not. Williams was caught and sentenced to life in prison.
Kenneth Williams
But in 1999, Williams escaped from the Arkansas Department of Correction’s Cummins Unit. He had gotten a job in the kitchen unit of the prison and on October 3, hid in the hog slop-filled tank of a garbage truck. When Williams was on the open highway he jumped out of the truck and began wandering around rural Arkansas.