Black women were front and center at the latest Black Lives Matter protest outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola on Sept. 24.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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9/28/20
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Policing is a community service provided by a paramilitary organization. There are about 800,000 police officers across the U.S., and regardless of color or creed, we are all blue.
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By Brian Wells
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8/21/20
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The actions of the four Minneapolis police officers who caused the tragic death of George Floyd on Memorial Day were barbaric and shameful, and go against everything we as a society stand for.
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By Bil Gaylor
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8/21/20
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Protesters marched down Oceanside Road Sunday to bring awareness to systemic racism and call for an end to police brutality.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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7/6/20
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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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A Baldwin woman died on Sunday after an accident on the water.
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By Mike Smollins
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6/22/20
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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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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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