Wisconsin One Year After George Floyd s Murder
May 25, 2021
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One year after the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley discusses its impacts in Wisconsin s largest Black community, how people are memorializing the death and what it has meant for the movement to promote more police accountability.
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Reggie Moore speaks to young people from Urban Underground in 2007. He co-founded the youth organization with his wife, Sharlen. Photo provided by Reggie Moore/NNS.
The first time
Reggie Moore was held up at gunpoint, he was just one block away from a place where every child should feel safe: His grandmother’s house in Chicago.
He had nothing to give the two robbers.
“His friend literally had to talk his other friend out of shooting me,” Moore said. “Seeing that desperation in someone’s eyes, willing to kill a 12-year-old. I’ve seen that level of pain early.”
Milwaukee County s Healthy Homes vaccination program is being made available countywide.
Milwaukee County is making a major expansion in its program to offer a COVID-19 shot at the dwelling of people who have difficulty leaving their residence.
County officials have been running a pilot version of what they call their Healthy Homes program, vaccinating about 50 people in the last few weeks.
But Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley said with the help of a $200,000 state grant, the county is making Healthy Homes available countywide.
Crowley said there are many reasons some people are homebound. Including those who need the help of another person or medical equipment to leave their home, or those whose medical provider believes that their health or illness may worsen if they leave their home. It shouldn t be the case that you aren t vaccinated or your general health care takes a bad turn just because you can t access the medical system traditionally, he told a media briefing
County on track to have lowest level of street homelessness ever recorded, housing director said. By Graham Kilmer - May 13th, 2021 10:44 am //end headline wrapper ?>Homes on N. 20th St. File photo by Jeramey Jannene.
Milwaukee County has used federal funding to prevent an estimated 5,480 evictions since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
David Crowley, the county put approximately $18 million of its allocation from the CARES Act into eviction prevention and housing assistance.
The county started cutting checks to renters and homeowners in June to keep them in their homes. Since then, the county has spent down nearly all of the money it has put towards rent and mortgage assistance.