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County hosts Black Equity Roundtable man said, noting the findings of his office’s 2020 report titled “Black Economic Equity Nassau County Comptroller Update.” Jack Schnirman last week host“In one year alone, Long ed a Black Equity Roundtable Island’s economy could have discussion via Zoom for which been $24 billion stronger if he invited pawnelracial gaps in ists, including income did not B a l dw i n C iv i c exist,” he said. Association Eco“That is a staggern o m i c D eve l o p ing, staggering ment Chair Kim number that Malone, local shows that it is not elected of ficials just the right and experts, to disthing to do to close cuss racial equity these gaps, but it gaps on Long is in everybody’s Island. financial interest The discussion to do that.” touched on gaps The report that exist in highlighted that, wealth and that if the gaps were are furthered by closed, Black d i s p a r i t i e s i n JACk SChNirMAN income on Long income, unemIsland would grow ployment, educa- County comptroller by $4.5 billion. tional attainment “Not only and homeownerwould this close ship. The talk was livestreamed t h e i n c o m e g a p, b u t t h e via Facebook Live and gar- increased economic benefit nered more than 3,000 views. would mitigate the tax burden “We all know that while for county residents overall,” Long Island has a very special Schirnman said. “A rising tide place in history as America’s lifts all boats, right?” first suburb, Long Island also Malone and other panelists has a very troubled history of systemic inequality,” SchnirContinued on page 4
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More ThAN 45 protesters marched from Baldwin High School to Nassau County Executive Laura Curran’s house in Baldwin on July 23 to denounce police violence and systemic racism.
BLM protesters march to county executive’s home By BridGeT dowNeS bdownes@liherald.com
Terrel Tuosto, a 28-year-old f r o m We s t H e m p s t e a d , recalled how he and his brother were arrested by Nassau County police in East Meadow earlier this month while peacefully protesting police violence and systemic racism. “My brother was grabbed, hit in the face and thrown into a police cruiser,” he said. Police “started surrounding me. One officer stood in front
of me . . . he’s walking in front of me, stops short and bumps back into me so that it could look like I initiated contact with him. They threw me to the ground, planted their knee on my back and on my neck, and arrested me.” Tuosto, a protest organizer with the group LI Peaceful Protest, recounted the incident via bullhorn in front of a crowd outside Nassau County Executive Laura Curran’s house in Baldwin on July 23. Tuosto, Michael Motamedian,
a 20-year-old protest organizer from East Meadow, and more than 45 people marched in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement from Baldwin High School to Curran’s house. More than a dozen police surrounded protesters in marked and unmarked cars. They escorted the protesters through the streets, slowly driving in front of and behind them, simultaneously announcing through what Continued on page 3
f we close that gap, that’s $24 billion more for our local economy, and that means that everybody else pays less taxes.