This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. Recounting the death of Kiwane Carrington Unfortunately, it took the death of a teenager for everyone in the community to recognize an urgent need to repair a shattered relationship. And The News-Gazette will be there to chronicle the next chapters. The consequences from Kiwane's death continue to reverberate. Community leaders and city officials alike will still say there still is a lot of work to do, but the difference now is that they acknowledge it. In the two years since the shooting of Kiwane Carrington, the relationship has improved marginally, and a clear narrative has emerged as documented by The News-Gazette. Mourning, protests and emotional testimony at city council meetings would ensue. Relations between the city's police force and the black community had already been splintered, but they shattered that day. What the black community had feared all along had happened – an innocent black kid was murdered because of an oppressive white police force, they would say. 9, 2009, may as well have been the detonation of a bomb that had been ticking for years. The blast of Norbits' gunshot on Friday, Oct. The perception among those who are being policed was exactly the opposite. They trust their police officers to adhere to training and treat everyone equally. This is the recounting of the news stories, editorials, and letters to the editor published by The News-Gazette in its daily newspaper and on reporting on and reacting to that fateful incident.Īctivists in the city's black community had been complaining about police abuse for years, and city officials had come off as dismissive. On October 9, 2009, 15 year old Kiwane Carrington was shot and killed by an on-duty police officer, Daniel Norbits, from the Champaign Police Department.

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