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Vol. 32, Issue 16 BROOKLYN EDITION April 16-22, 2021
Evelyn Jarbah (in blue) hugs Patience Chowoe during a protest outside Brooklyn Center
Police Department, a day after Daunte Wright was shot and killed by a police offi cer, in
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, U.S. April 12, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis
“The egregious mistake of
yelling taser while firing a gun
cost 20-year-old Daunte Wright
his life,” said Louis, the daughter
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Brooklyn Council Member
Farah Louis and Public Advocate
Jumaane Williams on Tuesday
condemned the police killing
of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn
Center, Minnesota, saying
that no logic or apology could
ever excuse the fatal shooting of
yet another Black man in Minnesota.
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of Haitian immigrants, who
represents the 45th Council District
in Brooklyn, in expressing
outrage.
“Our community has been
compounded with the trauma
inflicted by police-involved
shootings occurring on an alltoo
frequent basis,” Louis, vice
co-chair of the Black, Latino
and Asian Caucus in the City
Council, told Caribbean Life.
“The dark color of our skin is
perceived as a threat regardless
of who we are, where we are,
what we have accomplished, or
how we comply with commands
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By Bert Wilkinson
Major cruise liners which profit
from port calls in the Caribbean
have sailed away empty from volcano
ravaged St. Vincent as most
Vincentians made it clear they
prefer to ride out the latest natural
disaster at home rather than
on vessels even as they withstood
at least two massive explosions
and heavy pyroclastic flows from
the La Soufriere volcano this
week officials said.
The major, mostly Floridabased
cruise lines had rushed
their largely idle, COVID-19
affected ships to St. Vincent to
assist in mass evacuations of people
in the dangerous north of the
island ahead of the first major
eruption that had occurred on
Friday, the very same date that
it last caused massive disruption
and grief back in 1979.
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves
praised the cruise companies
even though they had called
on the island in vain, noting that
locals had appreciated the gesture
but chose to ride out the latest
natural disaster at home.
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Louis, Williams condemn police
killing of Daunte Wright
CRUISE
LINERS
LEAVE
Vincentian evacuees prefer
to remain at home
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