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CAC Audited NOV. 28 – DEC. 4, 2019
Vol. 91 No. 36 COMPLIMENTARY
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More library books at County Justice Center
Activists say video shows cop planting weapon New evidence in police killing of Terry J. Tillman By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American
Photo by Wiley Price
St. Louis County inmates Jeremy Williams and Tyler Schneider read books stocked in the County Justice Center by the St. Louis County Library on Monday, November 25.
Inmates will also receive library cards upon release By Chris King Of The St. Louis American Malcolm X was one of countless citizens who developed a passion for reading and self-improvement while behind bars. Thanks to a new partnership between St. Louis
County Library and St. Louis County Justice Services, reading and learning are getting easier for those locked up at the Buzz Westfall Justice Center in Clayton. The library now will provide a wide array of books to those in custody at the County Justice Center – a larger and more varied supply of library materials, available at different reading levels, that will be refreshed monthly. The library also will supply library cards
upon release for those who want them. This includes ready access to other helpful library resources such as computer classes, the Career Online High School program and job search assistance, not to mention telescopes, musical instruments and Wi-Fi hot spots. “This will be really beneficial for guys unfortunate as I am, as some people are,” Reuben Parker, an inmate at the County
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20th Business Salute was a family affair Michael B. Kennedy, Bill Bradley, Cassandra Brown Ray, Muny get top honors Cassandra Brown Ray, chief financial officer at the Saint Louis Zoo, was recognized as 2019 Non-Profit Executive of the Year at the St. Louis American Foundation’s 20th annual Salute to Excellence to Business on Thursday, November 21.
By Chris King Of The St. Louis American By the time 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year Michael B. Kennedy stood at the podium quietly weeping with pride to receive the same honor his father had received nine years ago, the St. Louis American Foundation’s 20th annual Salute to Excellence to Business was thoroughly a family affair. Kennedy’s two predecessors at the awards podium — 2019 Non-Profit Executive of the Year Cassandra Brown Ray and 2019 Corporate Executive of the Year Bill Bradley — both gave such moving tributes to their
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On the Saturday afternoon that 23-year-old Terry J. Tillman was killed in an officer-involved shooting near the St. Louis Galleria on August 31, three unnamed women found themselves unintentionally inside the crime scene. The window of the beauty salon has reflective glass, so the women could see out while police couldn’t see in. And one of them started capturing video on her cellphone. The video, which the woman released to Real STL News, shows a Richmond Heights Andrea Police SUV pulling up outside Martin, Christopher’s Hair Salon, which mother of is inside the Simmons Bank Terry J. building at Clayton Road and Tillman Cheshire Drive. One officer took a gun from within the SUV and with a gloved hand walked it to the upper level of the adjacent parking lot — where Tillman’s body lay. The officer was walking a gun towards the crime scene. “They’ve got to get that weapon to that crime scene,” said Amir Brandy, Ferguson activist and co-founder of Real STL News, “because if Terry
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Cop who beat Luther Hall had been arrested for drunk driving By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American Two former St. Louis police officers who have pled guilty in the September 17, 2017 beating of a black undercover cop were pulled over for drunk driving six weeks before the incident, according to an employee misconduct report that The St. Louis American obtained. Then officer-Randy Hays, who pled guilty on November 8 to using excessive force on Officer Luther Hall during a Stockley verdict protest, failed to tell his supervisors about his arrest, the report states. On August 5, 2017 at about 3:30 p.m., Hays was arrested by a Missouri Highway Patrol trooper for driving while intoxicated in Reynolds County.
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