City officials met with people in the New Town and Grand Park areas one week after the mass shooting at Dollar General. It was meant to help the community heal, but it didn’t go as planned.
“I’m mad,” local pastor Dr. Stanley McAlister said outside the church. “This is what trauma looks like.”
While three innocent lives were taken in last week’s racially motivated mass shooting, an entire community is suffering, including Dr. Stanley McAlister.So, City Councilwoman Ju’coby Pittman along with the mayor’s office“Last week, we were already angry,” Pittman said. “Today was a day about healing, and finding out how the community and neighborhood representatives could help heal this community.“I was hoping I would hear the truth, I was hoping to hear an apology,” Hunt said.
Pitman claims she didn’t invite the governor but welcomes the $1 million dollars the state is providing for security at Edward Waters University. “And listen, I get it,” Pittman said. “I don’t I don’t support his policies and his ideology that hurt the black and brown community. But the idea that he came, you know, not invited, and offering resources that this community needs.”“I’m hurt and it shouldn’t have had to take somebody to come from another county and kill three people for everybody to show up,” McAlister said. “This is every day.”But Pittman says she will not stop working to provide resources for the community.
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