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A divided Rochester City Council passes 2022 budget rochestercitynewspaper.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rochestercitynewspaper.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Embroiled in scandal, Mayor Lovely Warren faces a tough battle against City Councilmember Malik Evans in the mayoral race. Mayor Lovely Warren stood at the podium outside her office at City Hall facing what would have been a circular firing squad of reporters had she given them a chance to pull the trigger. There were plenty of questions. Her husband, Timothy Granison, had been arraigned on drug and weapons charges earlier in the day. Prosecutors alleged he was a player in a cocaine ring and police claimed to have found drugs on him and an unregistered handgun and a semi-automatic rifle in the Woodman Park house he shares with Warren and their 10-year-old daughter.
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This week marked a year since a white Minneapolis police officer put a knee on George Floyd s neck for nine-and-a-half minutes and killed him on a public street.
Advocates have asked the city and Monroe County to transform policing tactics and create a more equitable community that holistically serves all residents and respects Black lives.
In the year since the social justice movements spurred by Floyd s death began renewed calls for racial equality, what lessons have been learned? What has to change? The
Democrat and Chronicle posed those questions to local leaders.
All responses except two Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter and city council candidate Stanley Martin, a community organizer were collected via email questionnaire. (Baxter and Martin spoke with reporters in person .) The responses have been edited for clarity and length.