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Dakota County Attorney s Office veteran Kathy Keena will fill the county s top legal job, following a County Board appointment Tuesday.
Keena, who started in the county attorney s office in 2000 and was chief deputy before stepping into the top job on an interim basis when James Backstrom retired in February, is the first woman to serve as Dakota County attorney, according to a news release. I haven t really reflected on that, other than when you stop and think about it, you say, Wow, what has taken so long? she said. I hope it inspires other young female attorneys that are going into public service.
College of Liberal Arts 10 May, 2021
When he decided to transfer to Colorado State University, Weston Jones had some concerns.
“To be honest, I was a little scared of coming to a mostly white university,” said Jones, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation who grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. “I didn’t know if I would be able to find any people like me.”
He did, thanks to outreach by the Native American Cultural Center’s North Star peer mentoring program. Jones became a mentor himself, estimating that he has helped nearly 100 incoming first-year and transfer students find their way within the campus community over the past three years. He was also part of the Community for Excellence and AISES, which plans the annual campus pow wow.
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Garrett Rolfe, officer accused of killing Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta.
News that convicted murderer Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis officer, and three other officers were federally indicted for violating the civil rights of George Floyd, is significant.
Itâs not justice.
We must not celebrateâand donât make more of these charges filed by the Justice Dept. than what they are.
The world saw a Black man killed as a smirking cop and ex-officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane failed to act despite the pleas and cries of onlookers.
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The federal government should have had no other choice but indictment in the face of the murder of a man before our eyes. But the slaughter of Black, Latino and indigenous people is so engrained in this country that charging, let alone convicting a police officer for significant wrongdoing generally never happens. Even when officers kill someone, charges are not filed as families and Black Amer