At a time when relations are tense between police and the black community in many places across America, it pays to be smart.
That’s the message several organizations intend to present to youths at the Morristown Neighborhood House on Monday, May 11, 2015, at 6:30 pm.
Know Your Rights: What to Do When Stopped by the Police is meant to enhance already-good relations with law enforcement in Greater Morristown, said Wesley Marrow, president of the Morris chapter of the NAACP.
“We felt it is necessary because the media and social networks have implanted an image into our children’s minds that they should behave a specific way that is not relevant to our area,” he said.
“We enjoy a good existing relationship with our local law enforcement and we would like it to develop into an even greater one. We desire the dynamics where the youth/young adults know each officer and each officer knows our youth/young adults like it was when I was a child,” Marrow added.
Scheduled speakers include an officer from the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.
Sponsors include the Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Our Youth Their Future and the Pi Theta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.
Free food will be served, and gift cards will be distributed. The Nabe is at 12 Flagler St. in Morristown.
Jms- maybe parents can teach their kids how to properly behave and conduct themselves in public. Take accountability and responsibility for their actions. Are the cops always right? No! Are some bad? Yes! That doesn’t excuse rioting and looting. How about some outrage at the career criminals? Where’s the rioting and looting for the two cops killed the other day? (One of which was black)
This is great and needed. NOBLE should consider filming the seminar and making it available on-line to services millions of Americans, instead of those who can only attend the event. If you can’t get the seminar videoed, you should call Cablevision, and they will let you re-record it at their studios at no cost. I know someone who has their own show to our you on at no cost. If you need it edited, I can get you an editor. I think the video can be promoted by the NOBLE National President, who appears on CNN frequently. Please let me know if you need any support.
Why don’t you film the seminar so people all over the country can see it, instead of the people who attend. This is something that I recommended to NOBLE Several months ago on their Facebook Page. If you can’t film it, you can produced it at Cablevision’s studio at no cost, since NOBLE is a nonprofit.
Does it include how to shield their heads and necks from random beatings? How about how to give their friends first aid after they’ve been shot? Providing instruction to minority youth on “how to conduct themselves” in a culture where police shoot within 10 seconds of their arrival on a scene is like telling women how to avoid getting raped: it doesn’t even BEGIN to touch the problem.