While commenting on the chants and signs proclaiming “Black Lives Matter,” a white colleague said, “All lives matter.”
Yes, I replied, but . . .
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By Robert A. Scott
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7/3/20
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There’s an old saying (with many variations): “Beware what you wish for, because you might just get it.” That fits the current rush to judgment against police forces across America.
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7/3/20
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” The heinous murder of George Floyd by a police officer sworn to uphold the law . . .
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6/19/20
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Justice for George Floyd came swiftly in New York. During two weeks of intense protests at hundreds of locales across the state . . .
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6/19/20
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In a protest against police brutality and systemic racism on Sunday night, more than 100 Sewanhaka Central High School District parents, students and alumni marched through the residential streets …
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By Melissa Koenig
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6/16/20
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The largest pandemic in 100 years gave us a crash course in public health. We quickly learned the epidemiological concepts of “flattening the curve, the risk of exposure, asymptomatic carriers, incubation periods, and why we must quarantine.
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By Martine Hackett
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6/12/20
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Update: As of Wednesday, June 10 the state Legislature voted to repeal Section 50-a of the New York State Civil Rights Law, which shields police officer misconduct records from the public. Gov. …
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By Melissa Koenig and Peter Belfiore
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6/11/20
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Mimi Pierre-Johnson, of Elmont, has marched in protests against police brutality since George Floyd died under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer on May 25. But on June 3, she decided to take …
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By Melissa Koenig
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6/9/20
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Their names were on the protesters’ minds and lips for most of the evening Monday:
Breyonna Taylor, shot eight times in March in her own home when police entered without …
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By Peter Belfiore
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6/2/20
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The Nassau County Police Department blared their car sirens as they paraded in front of Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside to thank their health-care workers on Wednesday …
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By Nakeem Grant
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5/13/20
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