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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) Newport News Police Chief Richard Myers plans to retire from the department Sept. 1,according to an email obtained by 10 On Your Side.

Myers has been serving the city since January 2014, after former chief James Fox retired.

We have been fortunate to have Rick as our Chief of Police these past three and a half years, City Manager Cindy Rohlf said. With his extensive knowledge and experience in law enforcement, he has served the citizens of Newport News well during his tenure here.

Before that, he was the interim police chief in Sanford, Florida. Thats the city where Trayvon Martin was shot by George Zimmerman.

Myers was brought in there to essentially clean up the department and restore public trust after the controversial shooting.

Myers will become the executive director of a national police chiefs organization.

The city released a state from Myers Tuesday afternoon:

It has been an honor and a privilege working with this Police Department, the City Manager, and City Council, as well as the citizens of this great city. This department truly exemplifies professionalism and community policing, and I am proud to have been a part of that This new opportunity is a natural and timely transition from being a chief while still being able to continue to serve my profession.

City officials say they will be conducting an extensive national search for Myers replacement. An interim chief has not yet been named.

Stay with WAVY.com for updates to this developing story.

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Former NAACP president Philip Tyler, who was a Sheriffs deputy and now works as a campus security officer at Gonzaga University, weighed in on law enforcements community involvement. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)

Trust in law enforcement hit a historic low in June 2015 when a Gallup poll found that 52 percent of Americans trusted police. In 2013, that number was 57 percent.

Gallup attributed the drop to, among other things, the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was charged with shooting black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2014 in Florida.

In its latest poll released in early July, Gallup found the publics trust in police is back at 57 percent with the highest trust levels reported among whites, older people and conservatives.

As he continues to search for good candidates, the upswing in public trust is a huge positive for Spokane County Sheriff Knezovich.

Its good to see that we are back up, Knezovich said.

The same Gallup poll found that just 12 percent of Americans have a great deal of trust in Congress, 27 percent trust newspapers and 32 percent trust banks the military was the big winner with 72 percent.

But the rebound in trust in law enforcement doesnt hold true for everyone: The Gallup poll found that Hispanics, blacks, liberals and people younger than 35 continue to lose trust in law enforcement with liberals coming in at 39 percent, blacks at 30 percent and Hispanics at 45 percent.

A lack of trust is one reason why agencies have a difficult time recruiting minorities.

I know we have a disparity issue, Knezovich said, but we reach out to every aspect of humanity we can think of when we recruit.

Rex D. Caldwell, a retired police chief and the deputy director of training delivery for the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission, said hes recently visited seven states examining training and recruitment programs.

Caldwell said he has done a lot of outreach to minority communities African American, LGBTQ and Hispanic and found that they are especially reluctant recruits.

Ive had a lot of conversations with agencies who are having a hard time to get people from minority communities to even apply for a job, Caldwell said by phone from his office in Burien, Washington.

Spokane Police Departments chief, Craig Meidl, said hes especially committed to reaching out to minority communities.

We struggle tremendously with diversity, Meidl said. We struggle with getting people of color and women to apply.

Meidl said his department is reaching out to organizations such as colleges and military bases that already do a better job with diversity, hoping to learn and to reach a broader spectrum of candidates.

The biggest part of hiring diversity really is to go to community events and talk to people, Meidl said, adding that intense media scrutiny dehumanizes officers.

We have to rehumanize ourselves, Meidl said. We have to try to show that we are people too, we have senses of humor and we are human.

Thats especially important in communities of color, Meidl said, because law enforcement there is sometimes perceived as the enemy.

In communities of color, we ask people to be part of the change we are seeking. Its a big step for some, Meidl said. We also need community leaders of color to help encourage minorities to apply for law enforcement jobs.

Former NAACP president Philip Tyler, who was a sheriffs deputy and now works as a campus security officer at Gonzaga University, said law enforcement is doing a good job of reaching out, especially by visiting community events.

Dont set up a job fair and expect everyone to come there, Tyler said. That will work for some, but not for everyone. Go to where people are.

Tyler said one-on-one outreach at an event is a better way to create a relationship and establish that pipeline of good candidates coming to the agencies.

He added that interest in starting a law enforcement career is declining in some minority communities.

They come out of college and universities looking for a lucrative job they look for income versus impact, Tyler said. Public service is never going to make you rich, except in the impact you have on your community.

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This may be goodbye for MartinShkreli. The34-year-old "PharmaBro"was foundguilty on two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit fraud at a federal court in Brooklyn.He faces up to 20 years in prison.

Shkreliwas convicted of only three out of eight counts. The charges stem from his time managing the hedge funds ofMSMBCapital Management and MSMBHealthcare between 2009 and 2014. The government has said thatShkrelidefrauded investors and stole upwards of $11 million from his companyRetrophinto pay the defrauded investors back.Shkrelidid not testify. The deliberation took five days.

The trial was an odd one:Shkrelireportedly read a book during the prosecutions rebuttal argument; the defense talked about how Shkrelibrushed his teeth often due to his anxiety; and Shkreliheldlivestream sessions after court.

Prosecutor Jacquelyn Kasulisremarked that the trial "has exposed MartinShkrelifor who he really isa con man who stole millions." Following the verdict,Shkreli told reporters, "This was a witch hunt of epic proportions."

"PharmaBro"Shkrelicame into the national spotlight in 2015 after his companyTuring Pharmaceuticals inflated the price of life-saving AIDS medicationsby more than 5,000 percent.Shkreli, a noted bad and terrible human being, has been in the news for doing a variety of bad and terrible things. From trying tobuythe gun George Zimmerman used to killTrayvonMartin to harassingwomen online to a very long list that I'm not even going to get into.

Though Shkreli is facing up to 20 years in prison, it's likely he'll receive, and serve, less than that.

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This summer, the introspective artist is using his wardrobe to say what's on his mind.

And Ocean's style has also followed in that path. While he can clean up nicely in a tuxedo, the artist seems to favor shirts printed with some Tumblr-esque text written across them. His text-heavy Panorama festival performance tee (more on that in a minute) was just the latest example of Ocean's sartorial Tumblr moments of late.

Just under a year ago, the "Pyramids" singer released the video for "Nikes," his first single after a four-year hiatus from dropping a musical project. The clip is a kaleidoscopic montage of scenes cutting from one to the next, but amongst them, Ocean appears standing on stage wearing a tee printed with the Jenny Holzer's text-based work Truisms. While that garment is one of a only a handful made by a gallery that exhibited Holzer's work, West Coast-based brand Rust issued a riff on the T-shirt that has stayed in high demand, consistently selling out since the "Nikes" video. Unsurprisingly, Rust's founder Sean Stanton attributes that Frank Ocean.

In another, shorter scene in "Nikes," the "Good Guy" crooner wore a blue Bianca Chandon hoodie with the word "LOVER" written on it in bold white letters while singing in remembrance of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old black teen shot by George Zimmerman. "RIP Trayvon," he sang, "That n**** looked just like me." By the time the video was released, the T-shirt has already been sold out, but the attention Ocean brought to it drove the tee's resale value up. They now go for easily over $100 on sites like Grailed.

But it's not only videos that the 29-year-old uses to turn streetwear pieces into grails. Paparazzi caught Ocean walking through Soho in New York with Luka Sabbat and Kendall Jenner this summer, pink-haired and wearing a striped "Maintain the Mystery" tee from the West Coast streetwear brand The Hundreds. For many, it was a cryptic answer to why he had cancelled a recent performance in Barcelona, which he should have been at that weekend. For others it was a reason to drop $39 and sell out the design.

At the FYF Festival last month, while most were talking about the way he serenaded Brad Pitt, the sartorially minded had an eye on his "Instant Karma" tee. Many have cited that shirt as a product of a 1992 project which saw Nike licensing the use of a John Lennon song of the same name. And though imagery of a shirt from that project is available, the design differs from Ocean's version. Nike does confirm that it did produce a similar shirt in the '90s, making Ocean's an authentic original.

But most recently, the idea of Tumblr post as Frank tee was on view at Panorama. There, his anti-discrimination tee made countless headlines, racketing up both an incredible amount of sales (over 5,500 according to the company who designed it, Greenbox) as well as a brewing controversy. In fact, it was recently revealed that the design initially was a tweet, essentially reblogged onto a shirt, reblogged onto the Blonde singer's grand stage. Seems like the attention the Frank effect brings can also have a downside.

In a world of embroidered trousers and overly-designed, heavily graphic-ed blazers (if you're into it, no shame) Ocean's pared back approach to dressing and it's added benefit of speaking without speaking, is refreshing, thoughtful even. But would we expect anything less from a guy who released an album one day to fulfill his label contract and launched himself as an independent artist the very next day with another?

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The civil rights activist group Black Lives Matter was first thrust into the public consciousness in 2012, during its first protest following the killing of a 17-year-old unarmed African-American, Trayvon Martin, who was walking home from a convenience store with a bag of Skittles and a drink when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a white man.

During his trial, Zimmerman cried self-defense, claiming he fired his weapon only after being attacked by Martin, and he skated past murder charges. The verdict sparked outrage and a national race debate in part powered by the creators of Black Lives Matter, after whichthe nonprofit organization would become synonymous with protesting the wrongful deaths of unarmed black people, especially those shot and killed by non-black police officers.

Despite BLMs efforts to bring awareness to the plight of being black in America, as well as advocating for social justice for minorities, the group has faced strong opposition from law enforcement and race-related support groups like Blue Lives Matter and All Lives Matter. In fact, the overall tone toward BLM, which aims to bring an end to the oppression experienced by African-Americans, is unfavorable, according to a new poll.

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The Harvard-Harris survey, released Monday, found only 43 percent of voters have a positive view of BLM, while more than half of voterssome 57 percenthave an unfavorable view of the organization.

Not all that surprisingly, a majority of those who are opposed to the group are white. Only 35 percent of whites feel favorable toward BLM, compared to 65 percent who have a negative view of the group. As for black voters, 83 percent feel positively toward BLM, while only 17 percent dont.

In regard to partisanship, support among Republicans was the lowest21 percentand only 18 percent of Republicans who voted for Trump have a favorable view of BLM. Sixty-five percent of Democrats feel positively toward BLM and 66 percent of Democrats who voted forpresidential nominee Hillary Clinton favor the group.

Although instances of police brutality against black people, including the shooting deaths of a number of unarmed black men, have received a high volume of national attention in recent years, Americans in general dont believe police violence toward African-Americans is the biggest problem in todays society. Seventy percent of voters said black-on-black crime in African-American communities is a bigger issue, while 30 percent feel police violence against African-Americans is a bigger issue.

A majority of Americans do believe police are too quick to use aggressive force56 percentand 64 percent agree that race played a role in the use of aggressive force. However, 44 percent of voters feel cops only use force when necessary, and 36 percent believe race isnt a factor in the use of force.

Fifty-four percent of voters think police are too quick to draw their weapons and shoot at African-Americans, while 46 percent feel police engage with people of all races about the same.

So far in 2017, 581 people have been shot and killed by police officers, according to The Washington Posts Fatal Force Tracker. Of those killed, 127 were black while 241 were white.Last year, 963 people were shot and killed by cops, 465 of whom were white and 233 black.

More than 323 million peoplelive in the U.S., and only 13 percent of them are black. Whites make up 76.9 percent of the population.Meanwhile, over 2.3 million U.S. residents are currently serving sentences in prisons and jails. Forty percent of those people are black, according to criminal justice nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative, while 39 percent are white.

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