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Growing calls to terminate Maryland cops who handcuffed 5-year-old boy
Growing calls to terminate Maryland cops who handcuffed 5-year-old boy Newly released body camera footage shows Maryland police officers handcuffed and screamed at a 5-year-old boy during a January 2020 incident, telling the boy's mother she should "beat him." Michael George has more.
cbsnews.comCOPS/Metro balks at San Antonio mayor's plan for bureaucracy to run new jobs program
click to enlarge Facebook / COPS/Metro AllianceEdna Molina and Cathy McCoy of COPS/Metro Alliance make the case for Proposition B. A key backer of Mayor Ron Nirenberg's successful voter initiative to retrain 40,000 workers displaced by the pandemic is pushing back at the bureaucracy city officials want to create around the program.During a meeting Thursday with the Express-News editorial board , officials with community organizer COPS/Metro Alliance — a pivotal ally in the mayor's push — said they don't support plans to hire 63 city workers to run the SA Ready to Work program.“That’s one heck of a bloated bureaucracy from the get-go,” COPS/Metro leader Sonia Rodriguez told the daily.The city has proposed setting up a new agency to run the $154 million, four-year program and plans to conduct a nationwide search for an executive director.Officials with COPS/Metro, founder of San Antonio's Project Quest job training program, said the city should rely on existing institutions such as Quest and Alamo Colleges to provide services.However, Alex Lopez, who runs San Antonio's economic development department, told thethe new hiring is necessary because the size and scope of the SA Ready to Work is unprecedented.Roughly two-thirds of the city employees would be needed to provide services such as child care and job placement for residents going through retraining, Lopez added.
sacurrent.comProponents make last-minute case for Proposition B, San Antonio's job-training ballot measure
click to enlarge Facebook / COPS/Metro AllianceEdna Molina and Cathy McCoy of COPS/Metro Alliance make the case for Proposition B. Proponents argue the program, which includes stipends and daycare, would allow the Alamo City to remake what's long been a low-wage, tourism-driven economy. "These were people who, before the pandemic, were working jobs that weren't very high paying and often didn't have benefits," said San Antonio Councilwoman Adrianna Rocha Garcia. Local voters, she added, also understand that aquifer protection won't be going away. "When it comes to protecting the aquifer, this isn't an either-or-proposition," Rocha Garcia said.
sacurrent.com'Cops,' on air for 33 seasons, dropped by Paramount Network
LOS ANGELES After 33 seasons on the air, Cops has been dropped by the Paramount Network as protests against police proliferate around the world. Cops is not on the Paramount Network and we dont have any current or future plans for it to return, a spokesperson for the cable channel said in a statement Tuesday. The show had been pulled temporarily from the air in late May, when protests aimed at police over the death of George Floyd began to gain momentum. It ran on the Fox network for 25 years until 2013, when Viacom-owned Spike TV picked it up. The show remained on the air after Spike was re-branded as the Paramount Network in 2018.
Cops ramping up security for New Year's Eve celebrations
The NYPD is determined to make Times Square the safest place on Earth this New Year's Eve. They'll be dealing with one million people in attendence and billions more watching on TV. Don Dahler explains what they're doing to keep the crowds safe.
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