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Orange County Is Taking Steps to Make Its Criminal Justice System More Equitable Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough Cash bail, whereby prisoners have to fork up money, pretrial, to buy their temporary freedom is a concept as old as the most rudimentary of justice systems. But only recently in the United States have we come to seriously scrutinize a system that has racism baked into it at every level. In the weeks following George Floydâs murder and the beginning of Black Lives Matter protests, Governor Roy Cooper created the Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice. The task force, which included Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall, submitted to the governor in December more than 100 recommendations to make the justice system more equitable, including one to eliminate cash bail for certain low-level charges. ....
Former Chapel Hill Business Owner Moves From Smoothies to Sedition Julian Khater s image on the FBI s website. If it isn t one right-wing extremist patrolling Franklin Street, it s another one running an acai bowl restaurant. The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested 32-year-old Julian Khater on Monday, as well as his friend, George Pierre Tanios of Morgantown, West Virginia, for their involvement in the January 6 insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol. They are charged with conspiring to injure law enforcement officers and assaulting officers, according to the FBI s press release. In a video, Khater sprays three Capitol police officers with a chemical aerosol that temporarily blinded them. One of them was Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died the day after the attack. While it s uncertain whether or not the spray led to his death, investigators told the ....
Chapel Hill Is Voting to Rezone the 1200 Block of MLK Boulevard This Week. Residents Are Asking The Town Council to Say Yes. The 1200 and 1204 MLK land parcels, as well as the properties notified of the rezoning application. The Tar Heel Mobile Home Park is easy to miss, whether youâre driving down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard for the first time or the thousandth. Seventy-three homes are tucked behind the now-defunct Marathon gas station, obscured by dense foliage. In 2018, the mobile home park and gas station were sold to Stackhouse Properties. The original owners supposedly sold it under the condition that the 73 residences would keep their spaces. To do this and make money, the group submitted rezoning requests to include a self-storage facility on the property, and open a new gas station in the old Marathon space. ....
Dreams Held Fast: A Timeline of Black History in the Triangle Designed by Jon Fuller From the nationâs first public university, built by enslaved people, to the demonstrators this summer who finally rid the Capitol grounds of its monuments to white supremacy, the history of the Triangle and its major towns and citiesâChapel Hill, Durham, and Raleighâis inextricably intertwined with the history of its Black residents. Black history is American history, and Black History Week, established as a precursor to Black History Month by the author and historian Carter G. Woodson, was an early affirmation, and now an ongoing reminder, that Black Lives Matter. ....
UNC-Chapel Hillâs Campus Y Reclaims Its Community Following Break-In The damage at Campus Y was hard to gauge. Employees of The Meantime, the coffee shop at the bottom of the building, were the first to realize what had happened when they arrived for a Sunday afternoon training session late last month. Some of the damage at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hillâs social justice and innovation center looked impulsive: the swastikas drawn on the floor stickers, the n-word written on a whiteboard, the torn newspapers and photos. Opened cans of food were sitting out, and papers and books were scattered. ....