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He Implied Black People Are Born Dangerous. Watch What She Says Back.

Upworthy's own Franchesca Ramsey joined Latoya Peterson from Racialicious to talk about Eric Garner with Katie Couric.

He Implied Black People Are Born Dangerous. Watch What She Says Back.

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Former Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "You can't just throw your hands up and say ... that's it," to W. Kamau Bell (at the end of a 20-minute chat about not giving up).


So, Franchesca said:


She's referring to the recent shooting of Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old black man who was shot in his own apartment building. This was by a rookie cop who was told not to patrol stairwells like he was doing when the incident occurred.

Things have got to change.

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A teacher asked a great question about superintendent pay. Then, all hell broke loose.

This article originally appeared on 01.09.18


Why should a superintendent get a raise while teachers in the same district struggling to make ends meet see their paychecks flatline — year after year after year?

Teacher Deyshia Hargrave begged the question. Minutes later, she was handcuffed and placed in the backseat of a cop car.

The scene was captured below by YouTube user Chris Rosa, who attended a board meeting for Vermilion Parish Schools in Louisiana.

You can watch Hargrave begin speaking about 33 seconds in. The situation starts becoming contentious around 6:35 minutes. Hargrave is arrested at 8:35, and then walked outside in handcuffs and placed in the back of police vehicle. (Story continues below.)



"We work very hard with very little to maintain the salaries that we have," Hargrave, who teaches middle school language arts, said during a public comment portion of the meeting, stating that she's seen classroom sizes balloon during her time at the school with no increased compensation. "We're meeting those goals, while someone in that position of leadership [the superintendent] is getting raise? It's a sad, sad day to be a teacher in Vermilion Parish."

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