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2020 Protests Continue (Confessions, Consciousness, Change)

Posted on June 8, 2020 | Leave a comment

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For more than a week, the protests have flooded the streets, demanding police release body cam footage. This crowd does me good. In my depths, stories from decades before I was born churn a historical conscience. The Confederate monument has again been vandalized. I ask Donal Godfrey, whose house the KKK bombed when he was six years old, if this time really is different.

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Tagged Alexander Stephens, Black Lives Matter, Brittany Chrishawn, Donal Godfrey, George Floyd, In Memory of our Women of the Southland, J.B. Stoner, Jacksonville Community Action Committee, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, Jamee Johnson, James Robinson, Jimbo Robinson, Josue Garriga, Ku Klux Klan, Kwame Jones, Lackawanna Elementary School, Lenny Curry, Mayor Lenny Curry, Michael Sampson, Mike Williams, Nicholas Lawson, Phil Gilmore, Reginald Boston

Arlington and Lillian Roads: No ID Required

Posted on July 1, 2017 | 1 comment

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Respectfully, Devonte Shipman asks, “What was it that we did wrong, Officer?” This kind of thing has happened to him before. This time, he’s recording it.

Officer J.S. Bolen says, “You crossed the crosswalk! Against the red hand!” He threatens to put him in jail, calls for backup, and tells Vonte that Florida requires its residents to carry an ID at all times.

As though Bolen understands time in neighborhoods deemed not worth time. As though Bolen understands his position as Vonte Shipman’s public servant.

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Tagged Arlington, Arlington Expressway, Black Lives Matter, Blues Lives Matter, Connell Crooms, Devonte Shipman, Elias Campos, J.S. Bolen, Jacksonville, jaxpsychogeo, jaywalking, Jim Crow, Lillian Road, lynching, Sin City, Tim Gilmore, Timothy James