Decatur City Commissioners defended the city’s police chief after voting to approve “A Community Action Plan for a Compassionate Decatur.” That plan includes a $25,000 contract for facilitating a conversation about compassion and diversity. Members ...
The city of Decatur is putting money in the budget to address concerns about racial profiling by police officers. City Manager Peggy Merriss said the city is crafting several formal responses to recommendations the Decatur ...
UPDATE: Decatur Police Chief Mike Booker has released a statement about the department’s participation in this ongoing conversation. His full statement is reprinted at the end of this article. For the last few weeks black ...
I sat in a room at Oakhurst Presbyterian last Sunday, and listened while black men talked about their interactions with Decatur Police. The discussion was about Decatur, but it could’ve been about any place in ...
The stories were filled with disbelief, sarcasm, anger and – sometimes – dry humor. Black men stood in front of a room of about 70 people at Oakhurst Presbyterian Church on March 30 and described how ...
The organizers of a meeting to discuss alleged racial profiling by Decatur Police officers hope it will be the start of a longer conversation. Ted Baumann, one of the organizers, said that the group intends ...
A group of Decatur residents is inviting the public to a meeting this Sunday to share their stories of being racially profiled by police officers. The meeting will be held Sunday, March 30, at 4:30 ...