The bravery of 17-year-old Darnella Frazier made the difference. Her sense of duty and humanity compelled her to record the murderous actions of those police officers. In doing so, she ensured that prosecutors would have the damning video evidence necessary to secure a murder conviction against Derek Chauvin. Hopefully, it will produce the same outcome for the three officers who cooperated with him. And they must all be sentenced accordingly.
That viral video removed any interpretive wiggle room from those who blame unarmed Black people for getting maimed or killed by police. Of course, the most depraved among that group tried to do so with George Floyd too, but this time they looked especially wicked and stupid, like a few of the witnesses Chauvin’s defense team put on the stand.
https://calusawaterkeeper.org/news/florida-petitioned-to-protect-people-from-harmful-algae-blooms-3677/
Florida Department of Health in Lee County algae alert warning sign during a cyanobacteria bloom in 2019.
Back in 2018 Southwest Florida suffered through two massive harmful algal blooms the red tide bloom which persisted off the coast for a year and a half, and the blue-green algae bloom that started in Lake Okeechobee and wound up choking the Caloosahatchee River and its estuary. While research has been conducted on how far cyanotoxins produced by the blue-green algae can travel through the air, health officials don’t have a clear understanding of possible health effects from breathing them.
A young woman used the pain from the worst night of her life as energy to hold accountable the person she claims is responsible. She did so after the police and the state attorney said they couldn’t help her. Police told her there wasn’t enough evidence, the State Attorney’s Office told her they wouldn’t prosecute, […]
/ The Florida Department of Health in Lee County posted an algae alert warning sign during a cyanobacteria bloom in 2019.
In this interview, health experts discuss the “Cyanotoxins in Air Study” that will look at how the cyanotoxins affect people who live or work near the blooms.
In 2018, Southwest Florida suffered through two massive harmful algal blooms: the red tide bloom that persisted off the Gulf coast and the blue-green algae bloom that started in Lake Okeechobee and choked the Caloosahatchee River and its estuary.
While research has been conducted on how far cyanotoxins produced by the blue-green algae can travel through the air, health officials don’t have a clear understanding of possible health effects from breathing them.
What is critical race theory, and why are conservatives blocking it?
PolitiFact | Gov. DeSantis banned teaching it in K-12 in March, but is it taught in schools?
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Critical race theory isnât one set thing, but more a changing package of ideas. The movement began in the 1970s. [ Shutterstock ]
Updated May 25
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, is pushing forward on a reworked civics education curriculum for K-12. For DeSantis, the new plan is as much on what it bans, as what it promotes.
âLet me be clear, thereâs no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory,â DeSantis said at a March press conference in Naples. âTeaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.â