East Meadow
HERALD Salisbury marches for black lives
A parade for Clarke seniors
A look at Phase II of reopening
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Vol. 20 No. 25
JUNE 18 - 24, 2020
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School election results East Meadow School District budget Total: $214.18 million. Passed by a vote of 5,618-2,339.
Proposition Two A proposition to install green crumb-rubber synthetic-turf fields at East Meadow and W.T. Clarke high schools, for a total of $2.58 million. Passed by a vote of 4,807-2,339.
Scott Eckers
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ProTESTErS MArChED DowN Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow on Friday before police officers were seen in a video throwing Terrel Tuosto to the ground and arresting him for disorderly conduct.
Viral video under investigation Police forcibly arrest protesters in E.M. By BrIAN STIEGlITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com
A group of police officers threw an East Meadow protester to the ground last Friday before arresting him, as seen in a video taken at a Black Lives Matter protest. The man in the video, Terrel Tuosto, was one of the leaders of the protest, which began at the East Meadow Mall and made its way east on Hempstead Turnpike for roughly two hours.
Tuosto was walking with a crowd of protesters to his right and police officers to his left. When an officer stopped short, Tuosto bumped into him, and then police pulled him down and two officers pinned him to the pavement before handcuffing him. Tuosto’s brother, Tiandre, had been taken into custody the same way minutes earlier, and a third man was arrested shortly afterward. The third arrest was captured in another video, which also shows
police throwing the man to the ground. The video of that arrest can be seen in a tweet shared by @MarisaKabas at https://bit.ly/3d6C7k2. All three men were charged with disorderly conduct, for allegedly obstructing traffic. On Monday, Detective Lt. Richard LeBrun of the Nassau County Police Department said that the NCPD’s De par tment of Inter nal Continued on page 3
East Meadow school board election Scott Eckers and Alisa Baroukh were both elected in uncontested races, with 6,047 and 5,677 votes, respectively.
Alisa Baroukh