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Post Date:June 4, 2017

By HENRY FREDERICK

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- How well do any of us real ever know someone who is in a position of public trust and wieldspoliticalpower.Someone who comes across as engaging and above reproach.

Consider foul-mouthed Mike Chitwood, Volusia County Sheriff since January and ex-Daytona Beach PD chief,who, in the past10 1/2 years, has had more face time in the Central Florida media spotlight than any othernewsmaker alongthe I-4 corridor -- from Disney and the Attractions to the rollingocean surfand hard sands of the World's Most Famous Beach.

Chitwood has hogged the spotlight more thanTiger Woods andShaquille O'Neal. More than Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer.More than Dwight Howard,Grant Hill andVince Carter. And way more than John Morgan of Morgan and Morgan and auto accident negligenceattorney Mark Nejame.

Chitwood has George Zimmerman and Casey Anthony beat. It's not even close, even when they are combined. Chitwood even created his own theatricalOscar moment by coaxing a despondent George Anthony from a seedy beachside motel in favor of a waiting bed in the psych ward at Halifax Hospital just up the road from Daytona International Speedway.

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Terri Moravec has been actively involved with neighborhood watch for six years. Moravec is also a block captain in her Wildwood Park neighborhood in downtown Redding. "When neighbors get to know each other, and look out for one another, they become the eyes and ears for law enforcement when there's suspicious activity in the neighborhood."(Photo: Greg BarnetteRecord Searchlight)

Shes going to come up with a word for it.

BecauseRedding neighborhood watch captain Terri Moravec just cant describe the feeling she gets from keeping her downtown street safe at the same time shes fostering relationships with the other people who live there.

Im not sure what you call it; its just something that happens when neighbors unite and youve got a safer little community within a larger community called Redding, said Moravec, whos been involved with the program for decades and also volunteers for the Redding Police Departments office that oversees it.

And when Moravec found out the East Oak subdivision off South Bonnyview Road was hit by vandals last week pushing one resident to speed up her plans to leave Redding neighborhood watch was the first thing that came to mind. She believes the groups are the answer for frustrated longtime Redding residents who arent used to seeing the crime some areas have long been known for and who are tempted to leave because of it.

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There seems to be a groundswell of this thinking. For several years now, we seem to focus on the negatives of Redding because were dealing with things that those of us who have been here a while have maybe never lived with before, she said. Doing things that make your neighborhood safe, actually focusing on behaviors that make your neighborhoods safe, sometimes you just dont feel so alone.

Jennifer Long, the resident whose husbands truck was spray-painted, said she was interested in the idea of a neighborhood watch group, but ultimately, there would have to be one in every pocket of the city for her to want to stay in Redding.

I dont feel safe going into town after dark, she said, and I know a lot of women feel the same way.

Its true that not enough neighborhoods have watch groups, Moravec said. There are at least a few dozen groups, according to the Redding Police Departments map. But getting them spread throughout town would create a critical mass of safety, she said.

I believe that there are things that every average citizen can do to not only make their own home safer but their neighborhood as well, which ultimately translates into a safer city, really, Moravec said. Weve got a great network going, but not every neighborhood is represented with neighborhood watch groups. Thats our goal.

Moravec said its empowering to learn what to do to keep your neighborhood safe the Police Department educates watch captains on important phone numbers for reporting different problems, for example. But she said theres also a social component. And both pieces form a cycle the relationships people make through the watch could end up making them safer, Moravec said.

You become invested in their safety and hopefully, she said, the reciprocal is true of that.

Neighborhood watch-type groups dont come without their share of infamy.

Florida resident George Zimmerman was acquitted of shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin as a neighborhood watchman, though the verdict shocked many since Martin was unarmed and Zimmerman had been following him.

Locally, a Cottonwood father and son were arrested this month for allegedly beating up a family delivering newspapers while patrolling as part of a self-styled neighborhood vigilante group. Then there was the Redding man who served jail time for pepper-spraying a neighbor while voluntarilypatrolling the neighborhood.

Moravec said those types of incidents dont represent what neighborhood watch groups are really about preventing crimes by keeping a watchful eye, not vigilante justice.

A neighborhood watch group never, ever, ever puts the neighbors in an unsafe situation or takes the law into their own hands, she said. The neighborhood watch group simply exists to work as the eyes and ears of law enforcement and to report suspicious activity.

Anyone interested in starting a group can call the Redding Police Departments neighborhood watch program at 225-4209 or email nwu@reddingpolice.org.

Moravec said training helps volunteers learn how to report various problems, and each watch group can customize what their main focus is for example, educating people about deterring car thefts by always locking doors and rolling up windows, or about discouraging mail thieves by spreading word about the importance of daily mailbox checks to their would-be victims.

You feel better after you said, Hey, I was able to effect a positive change that way, she said. There are an awful lot of things that you can do in your neighborhood to actually be safer not only feel safer, but become safer.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Looking out over a sea of people in Harvard Yard last week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebooks chief executive and one of Harvards most famous dropouts, told this years graduating class that it was living in an unstable time, when the defining struggle was against the forces of authoritarianism, isolationism and nationalism.

Two days earlier, another end-of-year ceremony had taken place, just a short walk away on a field outside the law school library. It was Harvards first commencement for black graduate students, and many of the speakers talked about a different, more personal kind of struggle, the struggle to be black at Harvard.

We have endured the constant questioning of our legitimacy and our capacity, and yet here we are, Duwain Pinder, a masters degree candidate in business and public policy, told the cheering crowd of several hundred people in a keynote speech.

From events once cobbled together on shoestring budgets and hidden in backrooms, alternative commencements like the one held at Harvard have become more mainstream, more openly embraced by universities and more common than ever before.

This spring, tiny Emory and Henry College in Virginia held its first Inclusion and Diversity Year-End Ceremonies. The University of Delaware joined a growing list of colleges with Lavender graduations for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. At Columbia, students who were the first in their families to graduate from college attended the inaugural First-Generation Graduation, with inspirational speeches, a procession and the awarding of torch pins.

Some of the ceremonies have also taken on a sharper edge, with speakers adding an activist overlay to the more traditional sentiments about proud families and bright futures.

After Columbias ceremony, Lizzette Delgadillo said she spoke about the pain of impostor syndrome feeling alone when it feels like everybody else on campus just knows what to do and you dont, and of how important it was to have the support of other first-generation students.

Delgadillo, who graduated with a bachelors degree in biomedical engineering, had lobbied for the event for three years, as a member of a group called the First-Generation Low-Income Partnership.

The current political climate definitely pushed this initiative to come to fruition, said Delgadillo, the daughter of Mexican immigrants living in Los Angeles.

Participants say the ceremonies are a way of celebrating their shared experience as a group, and not a rejection of official college graduations, which they also attend. Depending on ones point of view, the ceremonies may also be reinforcing an image of the 21st-century campus as an incubator for identity politics.

Its not easy being a student, being a student anywhere, but especially at a place like Harvard, Ward Connerly, president of the American Civil Rights Institute and a former University of California regent who campaigned against racial preference in admissions, said sympathetically.

But events like black commencements, he continued, serve only to amplify racial differences. College is the place where we should be teaching and preaching the view that youre an individual, and choose your associates to be based on other factors rather than skin color, he said.

Think about it, Connerly added. These kids went to Harvard, and they less than anyone in our society should worry about feeling welcome and finding comfort zones. They dont need that.

The alternative ceremonies at Harvard had printed programs, and incorporated the pageantry, ritual and solemnity of traditional commencements, though without the diplomas, which were reserved for the official university commencement.

A few hours after the new Harvard University Black Commencement for the graduate schools, including the prestigious law, divinity, business, government and medical schools, about 120 students attended the third annual Latinx commencement. In the cavernous basement of a science building, where an animal skeleton dangled overhead and Latin music played, students received stoles with the words Clase Del 2017 woven into them, while siblings devoured chocolate cupcakes.

Black undergraduates held a separate event that night amid the polished pews and Greek columns of Memorial Church, Harvards spiritual center and the backdrop for Zuckerbergs address.

While Zuckerbergs speech was broadcast live and received thousands of complimentary comments on Facebook, the black ceremony was relatively small and more intimate, and seemed invisible to scores of classmates noshing on sliders and beer at a white tent nearby, part of the broader commencement week revelry.

The ceremony was open to all students, though virtually everyone who attended was black, and not all black students attended.

About 80 black graduates formed a procession to organ music, received kente-cloth stoles, listened to a classmate play Bach on cello and sang Lift Every Voice and Sing.

For me, the black community is a home away from home, Olivia Castor, a student speaker from Spring Valley, New York, who earned a bachelors degree in social studies and African-American studies, said exuberantly.

Its where I spent most of my time, where I found my closest friends and, more importantly, where Ive learned the most important lessons during my time here, she went on. So thank you, thank you for being beautiful, brilliant and blackety-black-black.

Brandon M. Terry, the faculty speaker, joked that Harvard Colleges black graduation had become more mainstream since he graduated in 2005.

This setup already has us beat, he said. We were in one of the old Harvard buildings across campus. We had no air-conditioning, and some folding chairs on the stage.

Terry suggested that the mood was different as well.

You began college just weeks after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the callous killing of Trayvon Martin, Terry, an assistant professor of African and African-American studies and social studies, said in his address.

You were teenagers, like Michael Brown when he was subjected to the Sophoclean indignity of being shot dead and left in the blazing sun. Your world was shaped in indelible ways by these deaths and others like them, and many of you courageously took to join one of the largest protest movements in decades to try to wrest some semblance of justice from these tragedies.

But like all the speakers, he spoke reverently of Harvard as an institution, saying: The dramatic privileges that you have and will continue to benefit from in virtue of your association with this university are only worth the social cost if they are to benefit people worse off than you.

Bhekinkosi Sibanda, a first-generation Harvard student from Zimbabwe, said he had been ambivalent at first about participating in the black graduation.

In an attempt at inclusivity, we dont want to end up introducing exclusivity, he said. You dont want to end up where this black commencement overshadows the entire commencement of the school. You dont want to blow away the glory.

Then Sibanda remembered how a professor had asked if he wanted to drop a class, when all he wanted was help. Its good to be able to take this time for solidarity and identity, he said, to celebrate what weve achieved.

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Susan C. Beachy contributed research.

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(CNN) - After a racial slur was found spray-painted at LeBron James' Los Angeles home, the NBA's most prominent player sat down before a roomful of reporters and let out a sigh.

"Hate in America, especially for African Americans, is living every day," he said Wednesday on the eve of Game 1 of the NBA Finals. "It's alive every single day."

It marked just the latest time James has spoken out on hot-button racial issues. Unlike Michael Jordan, the NBA superstar who avoided politics publicly throughout his career, James has repeatedly offered his thoughts on racism, unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest and other related topics.

Here's a look at some of LeBron's statements over the years, from his tribute to Trayvon Martin to his comments this week about the vandalism at his home.

After Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman in February 2012, James joined his Miami Heat teammates in wearing hoodies in solidarity with the unarmed Florida teen.

"#WeAreTrayvonMartin #Hoodies #Stereotyped #WeWantJustice" James wrote then in a tweet.

In a follow-up tweet, he said he was "proud of my teammates" for their stance and signed a petition calling for the prosecution of Zimmerman.

James also took the floor for a game against the Detroit Pistons wearing sneakers with "RIP Trayvon Martin" written on them.

In April 2014 TMZ released an audio clip of Donald Sterling, then the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, telling a woman that he didn't want her to bring any black people to Clippers games.

The comments caused an uproar in the predominantly black NBA. James was unequivocally clear on his stance.

"There is no room for Donald Sterling in our league," he told ESPN. "There is no room for him."

James said he would consider sitting out a playoff game in protest if his owner ever made comments like that.

"I've wavered back and forth if I would actually sit out, if our owner came out and said the things that [Sterling] said," James said. "I would really have to sit down with my teammates, talk to my family, because at the end of the day, our family and our teammates are way more important than that."

Days later, the NBA banned Sterling for life and forced him to sell the team.

In an interview with CNN's Rachel Nichols in September 2014, James was asked about his emerging role as a sports figure who speaks out on issues of racism and social justice.

"If I feel passionate about it and I feel something needs to be said or something needs to be done I'll voice my opinion," he said. "And I don't speak without knowledge. I educate myself first before I dive into a situation."

He also said the shootings in Ferguson and other related issues were personal for him because he has two sons, and he said he would continue to speak out as a role model.

"We know racism is still alive and the only thing I can do as a role model, I feel like I'm a leader in society, is to my kids and teach the people that follow me what the right way is," he said.

In November 2014, a grand jury declined to indict a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old. James took to Instagram and posted an image of Brown and Trayvon Martin with arms around each other walking into the light.

"As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I'm so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn't the solution as well," he wrote. "#PrayersUpToTheFamilies #WeHaveToDoBetter"

In December 2014, James and other NBA players wore "I can't breathe" shirts during pre-game warmups. The phrase was a reference to the final words of Eric Garner, an African American man who died when a New York police officer threw him to the ground using a department-banned chokehold, an incident caught on camera.

A grand jury in New York declined to indict any officers in Garner's death, sparking widespread criticism -- including from James.

President Barack Obama told People magazine that James "did the right thing" by raising awareness about the issue.

"We went through a long stretch there where [with] well-paid athletes the notion was, just be quiet and get your endorsements and don't make waves," Obama said. "LeBron is an example of a young man who has, in his own way and in a respectful way, tried to say, 'I'm part of this society, too' and focus attention.

"I'd like to see more athletes do that," Obama added. "Not just around this issue, but around a range of issues."

James, possibly the most influential person in the swing state of Ohio, endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, saying in an op-ed that "she will build on the legacy of my good friend, President Barack Obama."

"Only one person running truly understands the struggles of an Akron child born into poverty," James wrote. "And when I think about the kinds of policies and ideas the kids in my foundation need from our government, the choice is clear."

At the ESPY Awards in July 2016, James joined fellow NBA stars Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, and Carmelo Anthony in delivering a call to action on racial issues.

"Tonight we're honoring Muhammad Ali, the GOAT," James said, referring to the acronym for Greatest of All Time. "But to do his legacy any justice, let's use this moment as a call to action for all professional athletes to educate ourselves, explore these issues, speak up, use our influence and renounce all violence and, most importantly, go back to our communities, invest our time, our resources, help rebuild them, help strengthen them, help change them."

Kaepernick, an NFL quarterback most recently with the San Francisco 49ers, decided last year to kneel during pre-game national anthems as part of a personal protest over police brutality and racism in America.

In an interview before the NBA season began, James said he would personally stand for the national anthem but added that he respected Kaepernick's position.

"I'm all in favor of anyone, athlete or non-athlete, being able to express what they believe in in a peaceful manner," he said. "That's exactly what Colin Kaepernick is doing, and I respect that. I think you guys know when I'm passionate about something, I speak up on it.

"Me standing for the national anthem is something I will do. That's who I am. That's what I believe in, but that doesn't mean I don't respect and don't agree with what Colin Kaepernick is doing. You have the right to voice your opinion, stand for your opinion, and he's doing it in the most peaceful way I've ever seen someone do something."

Los Angeles police on Wednesday said a racist slur was found spray-painted on the front gate of James' home. The day before facing the Golden State Warriors in the first game of the NBA Finals, the star forward put the incident in historical context.

"I think back to Emmett Till's mom, actually," James said, referring to the black teen who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. "That's one of the first things I thought of. The reason she had an open casket was that she wanted to show the world what her son went through as far as a hate crime, and being black in America.

"No matter how much money you have, no matter how famous you are, no matter how many people admire you, being black in America is tough," he said. "We got a long way to go for us as a society and for us as African Americans until we feel equal in America."

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In 1980, Cable News Network made its debut.

Reese Schonfeld, President of Cable News Network and Reynelda Nuse, weekend anchorwoman for CNN, stand at one of the many sets at the broadcast center in Atlanta on May 31, 1980. The network, owned by Ted Turner, will begin its 24-hour-a-day news broadcasts on Sunday in afternoon. (AP Photo/Joe Holloway)

Today is Thursday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2017. There are 213 days left in the year.

Todays Highlights in History:

It was 50 years ago today June 1, 1967 that the Beatles album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was released, as was David Bowies debut album, eponymously titled David Bowie.

On this date:

In 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state.

In 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.

In 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, gave the order, Dont give up the ship during a losing battle with the British frigate HMS Shannon in the War of 1812.

In 1868, James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, died near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at age 77.

In 1917, the song Over There by George M. Cohan was published by William Jerome Publishing Corp. of New York.

In 1927, Lizzie Borden, accused but acquitted of the 1892 ax murders of her father, Andrew, and her stepmother, Abby, died in Fall River, Massachusetts, at age 66.

In 1943, a civilian flight from Portugal to England was shot down by Germany during World War II, killing all 17 people aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.

In 1957, Don Bowden, a student at the University of California at Berkeley, became the first American to break the four-minute mile during a meet in Stockton, California, in a time of 3:58.7.

In 1977, the Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. (Shcharansky was imprisoned, then released in 1986; hes now known by the name Natan Sharansky.)

In 1980, Cable News Network made its debut.

In 1997, Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, was severely burned in a fire set by her 12-year-old grandson in her Yonkers, New York, apartment (she died three weeks later). The Chicago Tribune published a make-believe commencement speech by columnist Mary Schmich, which urged graduates to, among other things, wear sunscreen (the essay ended up being wrongly attributed online to author Kurt Vonnegut).

In 2009, Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330 carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of everyone on board.

Ten years ago: The FDA warned consumers to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it might contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze. Kidnapped British journalist Alan Johnston appeared in a videotape posted on an Islamic website, the first time he was seen since being abducted nearly three months earlier in Gaza. (Johnston was freed July 4, 2007.) Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian walked out of a Michigan prison, where hed spent eight years for ending the life of a man suffering from Lou Gehrigs disease.

Five years ago: A judge in Sanford, Florida, revoked the bond of the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering Trayvon Martin and ordered him returned to jail within 48 hours, saying George Zimmerman and his wife had misled the court about how much money they had available when his bond was set at $150,000. (George Zimmerman was ultimately acquitted of the murder charge; Shellie Zimmerman pleaded guilty to perjury and was sentenced to a years probation and community service.) The U.N.s top human rights body voted overwhelmingly to condemn Syria over the slaughter of more than 100 civilians; Syrias most important ally and protector, Russia, voted against the measure by the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. Johan Santana pitched the first no-hitter in New York Mets history in an 8-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.

One year ago: After killing his estranged wife in a Minneapolis suburb, a former UCLA student drove from Minnesota to Los Angeles, where he shot and killed his former professor before taking his own life. Ken Starr resigned as Baylor Universitys chancellor, a week after the former prosecutor whod led the investigation of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal was removed as the schools president over its handling of sexual assault complaints against football players.

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