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Alton Sterling’s Children Sue Baton Rouge Police Over His Death BATON ROUGE, LA.- Alton Sterling’s five children have filed a wrongful death lawsuit, claiming their father’s fatal shooting last year by a Baton Rouge police officer violated his civil rights and fits a pattern of excessive force and racism within the police department’s ranks.

The suit, filed Tuesday in Louisiana state court, claims the two white officers who encountered Sterling, who is black, on July 5, at a Baton Rouge convenience store used unnecessary force.

The suit’s claims mirror allegations that federal prosecutors weighed when they considered -- but last month declined -- to lodge civil rights charges against Officers Blaine Salamoni and Howie Lake II. Those case files were handed over to Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, who is contemplating charges.

Without divulging specifics, the suit highlights a letter sent May 25 to Police Chief Carl Dabadie in

Man Walks Free After Federal Judge Tosses Murder Conviction

John Floyd waves from a car as he leaves the Hale Boggs Federal Building and Courthouse in New Orleans, Thursday, June 22, 2017. Floyd, who was imprisoned for 36 years, walked free Thursday after a federal judge threw out his murder conviction and life sentence for a newspaper editor’s stabbing in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS — Set free after 36 years in prison for a murder conviction that took decades to unravel, John Floyd donned a black T-shirt bearing the word “justice” Thursday before leaving the courthouse where a federal judge formally signed off See FREE, on page 2

which Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome refers to “very disturbing details surrounding the actions of Officer Salamoni” that both officials received “during a consultation with the Department of Justice.”

Salamoni’s “termination is warranted,” writes Broome, who notes she was “shocked and appalled by this information.”

The Baton Rouge Police Department declined to comment on the lawsuit, citing “pending litigation,” Sgt. Don Coppola told CNN. Salamoni and Lake remain on paid administrative leave, he said.

The Sterling family’s lawsuit names as defendants the city of Baton Rouge and its police department, along with Dabadie, Salamoni, Lake and the department’s liability insurer.

The lawsuit, which seeks an undisclosed amount for punitive damages, comes on the heels of settlements this month in two other high-profile cases that left black men dead at the hands of police.

Cameron Sterling, 15, the son of Alton Sterling, who was shot and killed while being restrained by police, speaks at a news conference in front of the Triple S Food Mart, where his father was killed, in Baton Rouge, La.,Wednesday.. The family’s attorneys, Justin Bamberg, left, and L. Chris Stewart, right, stand with him. Alton Sterling’s family thanked the community for its support in the wake of his death, and pleaded for peaceful protests and demonstrations.

La. Becomes First State to Ban Criminal History Question on College Applications

Gov. John Edwards recently signed House Bill 688 into law making Louisiana the first state in the nation to ban criminal-history questions on college applications. (Twitter/Courtesy of VOTE)

Louisiana has become the first state to ban all of its public college and universities from asking admissions applicants about their criminal history.

The legislation was signed into law on Friday, June 15, by Gov. John Edwards. Proponents of the law say such questions often discourage applicants with troubled backgrounds from pursuing higher education.

The law, however, does make exceptions so that colleges can

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inquire about aggravated sexual assault or stalking convictions, though there is an appeals process if an applicant is denied based on the exception, according to local TV station WVUE Fox 8 in New Orleans. The law also does not prevent a college from asking about a student’s criminal history after he or she has been admitted in regards to financial aid or campus housing.

“What research shows is that two out of three people with con-

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victions that want to go to college when they start the application and they see the question, they stop,” Annie Freitas, program director with the Louisiana Prison Education Coalition, told the TV station.

The mission of the so-called “ban the box” movement, in reference to the criminal-history question often found on applications next to a check mark box, is to help people with criminal histories See BAN, on page 3

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The family of Philando Castile, who was shot and killed last year by a St. Anthony, Minnesota, police officer, reached a $3 million settlement with the city days after the officer in that case was acquitted of second-degree manslaughter. The family of Michael Brown, who was shot and killed in 2014 by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, settled its wrongful death lawsuit against that city for an undisclosed amount Sterling, 37, was selling CDs and DVDs outside the Triple S Food Market when the officers approached him in response to a 911 call that a man with a gun was near the store. Sterling “displayed no aggressive behavior or manners,” the suit claims. Sterling at the time was carrying a .38-caliber revolver, with six rounds in it, the Justice Department has said.

Almost immediately, Salamoni pointed his service weapon at Sterling’s head and yelled, See STERLING, on page 2

Budget Office: Senate Health Bill Adds 22 Million Uninsured The Senate Republican health care bill would leave 22 million more Americans uninsured in 2026 than under President Barack Obama’s health care law, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Monday, complicating GOP leaders’ hopes of pushing the plan through the chamber this week.

Minutes after the report’s release, three GOP senators threatened to oppose a pivotal vote on the proposal this week, enough to sink it unless Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., can win over some of them or other GOP critics. The bill will fail if just three of the 52 Republican senators oppose it, an event that would deal a humiliating blow to President Donald Trump and Senate leaders.

The 22 million additional people without coverage is just a hair better than the 23 million who’d be left without insurance under the measure the House approved last month, the budget office has estimated. Trump has called the House version approved last month “mean” and told Senate Republicans to approve legislation with more “heart.”

In good news for the GOP,

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President Donald Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump is not known for plunging into the details of complex policy issues, and health care is no exception. Since his campaign days, Trump has addressed health care in broad, aspirational strokes.

Nonetheless he made some clear promises along the way

the budget office said the Senate bill would cut the deficit by $202 billion more over the coming decade than the House version. Senate leaders could use some of those savings to attract moderate support by See BILL, on page 2

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FREE FINANCIAL UNIVERSITY As the regular season wound down, the takes flew fast and furious, but now, the debate is over. At the inaugural NBA Awards show in New York on Monday night, Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Russell Westbrook was named the NBA’s 2016-17 Most Valuable Player.See Page 6

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One Man’s Voice Makes the Difference BATON ROUGE, LA — Chester Burnett’s motivation to work with children led him to Capital Area CASA Association, a nonprofit organization that recruits, trains, and supervises community volunteers to speak up for abused and neglected children living in foster care. CASA helps these children reach safe, permanent homes. “I felt the need to do something. When I started, I made a commitment to put the time in. You make time for things that are important to you,” said the 64-year-old Burnett who retired from ExxonMobil Chemical after forty years.

Capital Area CASA Association is seeking volunteers, especially male and African American volunteers, as only twenty percent of our volunteers are male. “Children enter foster care through no fault of their own and need positive role models to help them through this process,” Burnett states. At present, seventy-five percent of the children that Capital Area CASA volunteers advocate on behalf of are African American.

Burnett is a CASA volunteer to a two-year old boy who entered

foster care because of his parents’ problems with substance abuse.

The foster parents quickly noticed the child’s speech development issues. Burnett’s advocacy efforts involved were getting his CASA child services to work on the twoyear old’s speech development.

“He still has a ways to go on his speech but he has the resources now,” said Burnett who has been a CASA volunteer for six months.

Chester Burnett has called Baton Rouge home for most of his life, graduated from Southern University, and raised five children with his wife, Donna.

Burnett states that, “The most rewarding part of being a CASA volunteer is seeing my CASA child respond to me coming to see him. As you try to get the child reunified with his parents, seeing the growth and progress of that child is rewarding. Progress is being made with reunification.”

Burnett said, “Get the information and find out what a CASA volunteer does. It is one of the greatest things that you can do in life is to help others.”

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a single round proves that Sterling was not an imminent risk, the lawsuit notes, adding that the officers did not render “urgent medical care or first aid” after mortally wounding Sterling.

The suit also takes aim at Dabadie, claiming the police chief failed to properly “train all active police officers under his control and supervision.”

Dabadie’s department “failed to have a written policy on the use of deadly force, and has a history of incidents of excessive force, racism in the BRPD towards members of the African American community and inadequate oversight

by decision makers in the BRPD and the City,” the suit states.

The suit accuses the department of having “a long standing pervasive policy of tolerating racist behavior of some of its officers.” It cites local news reports of alleged racist behavior by Baton Rouge officers beginning shortly after Hurricane Katrina and continuing through protests that followed last month’s Justice Department announcement.

It also claims the city “did not properly examine and scrutinize the backgrounds of Officers Lake and Salamoni.”

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Sterling from page 1 “B**ch I will f***ing kill you,” “I am going to shoot you in your mother f***ing head,” the suit claims.

The officer should have known that the “continued escalation and provocation would have caused a negative encounter with Mr. Sterling,” the suit states.

“In less than one second, Officer Salamoni yelled at Mr. Sterling and then pulled his gun and fired three shots into Mr. Sterling’s chest,” it states. “Officer Salamoni then fired three more rounds needlessly and excessively into the back of Mr. Sterling.”

The fact that Lake did not fire

Bill from page 1 making Medicaid and other provisions in their measure more generous, though conservatives would prefer using that money to reduce federal deficits.

The White House lambasted the nonpartisan budget office in a statement, saying it has a “history of inaccuracy” projecting coverage. Democrats said the report confirmed their own analysis of the GOP measure.

“This bill is every bit as mean as the House bill,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Of the 22 million without coverage by 2026 under the Senate plan, 15 million would be without it next year, the budget office said. That could be a particular concern to moderate Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., who faces perhaps the toughest 2018 re-election race of any Senate Republican and has said he can’t

support the measure if huge numbers of people lose coverage.

The budget office report said coverage losses would especially affect people between ages 50 and 64, before they qualify for Medicare, and with incomes below 200 percent of poverty level, or around $30,300 for an individual.

In one example, the report says that in 2026 under Obama’s law, a 64-year-old earning $26,500 would pay premiums amounting to $1,700 a year, after subsidies. Under the Senate bill, that person would pay $6,500, partly because insurers would be able to charge older adults more.

Moderate Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she would vote against a GOP procedural motion, expected Wednesday, to begin formally debating the legislation. She tweeted that she favors a bipartisan effort to See BILL, on page 3

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Free from page 1 on his release.

Floyd’s path to freedom began months ago, when U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance ruled in September that no reasonable juror would find Floyd guilty of murder in the November 1980 stabbing death of Times-Picayune copy editor William Hines.

But Floyd didn’t get his first taste of freedom since his 1981 arrest until after Vance approved the conditions of his release from Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a maximum-security prison largely populated by men serving life sentences with no hope of parole.

“This T-shirt tells it all,” Floyd said in a soft voice after a brief hearing at the New Orleans courthouse. “I never lost hope. I knew one day it would come.”

In May, Vance had ordered prosecutors to either retry Floyd or release him within 120 days. District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s office agreed to Floyd’s release while it appeals the judge’s earlier decision to toss out his 1982 conviction and life sentence.

Floyd had confessed to killing Hines and another man — three days and 1 mile (1.6 kilometer) apart and under similar circumstances. But the judge said new evidence supports Floyd’s claim that police beat him to coerce a confes-

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Vance said Floyd’s conviction was based entirely on his statements to police investigators, who found no physical evidence or eyewitness testimony linking Floyd to the crime scene.

The judge’s order Thursday says Floyd will live in Carencro, Louisiana, on supervised release. He will work there on a farm.

Floyd glanced up at the cloudy skies outside the federal courthouse in New Orleans as he faced a gaggle of cameras and reporters.

“It will take me a while to get used to it,” he said. “It feels good.”

Floyd hugged another former Angola inmate, Calvin Duncan, on his way out of the courtroom. Duncan, 54, served 28 years in prison for a murder conviction before he was freed in 2011 under a plea deal.

Duncan joked that he couldn’t greet Floyd during their years together in prison without his friend professing his innocence.

“But he needs a lot of help now,” Duncan said. “He needs to learn how it feels to be free.”

Floyd, now 67, was a 32-year-old “drifter” living in the French Quarter when Hines and Rodney Robinson, a businessman, were stabbed to death. Both victims were gay and were killed after apparently sharing a drink and having consensual sex with their attacker.

Police found Hines’ body in his bedroom on Nov. 26, 1980, and believed he was killed a day earlier by a welcomed visitor. Robinson’s body was found Nov. 28, 1980, in the hallway of a downtown hotel.

Floyd has been in custody since January 1981, when police arrested him at a French Quarter bar. Floyd testified that a police detective, John Dillman, and another officer bought him five or six beers at the bar before his arrest.

Floyd also testified that Dillman beat him during his interrogation after he initially denied killing Hines or Robinson.

A judge acquitted Floyd of murder in Robinson’s killing but convicted him of seconddegree murder in Hines’ death.

In her ruling last year, Vance said physical evidence at the scene of Robinson’s death excluded the possibility that Floyd killed him “in the manner described in his conSee FREE, on page 3

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John Bel Edwards Removes Restrictions, Oversight From Louisiana Budget

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The drug Fentanyl, U-47700, and Furanyl can be 50 to 100 times more powerful than heroin, making the risk of a fatal overdose much higher. Drug dealers have been using this drug to increase the potency of their heroin at a lower cost.

These new drugs are increasing the risk to any who abuse drugs as drug dealers press drugs into pills and selling them under the guise of being something else. Today, those who abuse drugs truly are at risk as there is no telling what drugs they are taking.

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Bill from page 2 fix Obama’s 2010 statute but added, “CBO analysis shows Senate bill won’t do it.”

In another troublesome finding for the legislation, the budget office warned that in some rural areas, either no insurer would be willing participate in the individual market or the policies offered would be prohibitively expensive. Rural America was

a stronghold for Trump in the presidential election.

The American Medical Association, the nation’s largest doctors’ group, said it opposed the Senate bill because some people would lose coverage and others would find it too costly. They wrote that the measure violates the physicians’ dictum, “First, do no harm.”

Free from page 2 fession.” Instead, the evidence pointed to a killer of a different race and blood type than Floyd.

“If Floyd was willing — for whatever reason — to falsely confess to one murder, it is far more likely that his other confession is false as well,” the judge wrote. “The considerable evidence tending to undermine the Robinson confession, therefore, also serves to undercut the Hines confession.”

The National Registry of Exonerations has examined 2,049 exonerations in the U.S. since 1989 and found it included 245 cases of innocent men and women who confessed, according to registry senior researcher Maurice

Possley. Nearly 75 percent of those false confessions were in homicide cases, Possley said in an email.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards removed restrictions and legislative oversight that were built into the state’s $28 billion operating budget before he signed the bill Wednesday (June 27). The new spending plan takes effect Saturday, dictating how money is spent on higher education, hospitals, roads and other public services for a year.

Unlike on most other legislation, the governor may remove certain portions of the budget bill without vetoing the entire document. Edwards, a Democrat, struck four provisions, mostly added by House conservatives to give lawmakers more of a say over how the state spends its money.

Edwards eliminated language requiring his administration to report more about spending and budget changes made during the year to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget and on a public website. Edwards also vetoed a bill that imposed a similar requirement, calling it “needless and overly burdensome” for his administration.

He removed a provision that allowed pay raises for some levee district employees without approval of the Louisiana State Civil Service.

And he struck out limitations on where the Department of Health may make budget reductions if needed. Lawmakers had wanted to prohibit the Health Department from cutting graduate medical education, waivers for people with disabilities and money for autism treatment in case of a mid-year budget shortfall.

Edwards rejected those protections. “This language improperly restricts the ability of the Louisiana Department of Health to handle possible reductions and to properly manage its budgeted appropriation,” he wrote in a letter

Ban from page 1 successfully re-enter society after incarceration.

In 2016, the U.S. Department of Education under President Barack Obama asked colleges to voluntarily remove criminal-history questions from their applications. Some public university systems such as New York’s and California’s and a few private colleges have complied, according to National Public Radio.

But Louisiana became the first to do so statewide.

A study conducted in 2009 by the Center for Community Alternatives examined 273 institutions and found that 66 percent collect criminal-history information. Less than half of them that collect and use such information, it found, have a written policy and only 40 percent of those institutions train staff to interpret the data.

“A sizable minority [38 percent] of the responding schools does not collect or use criminal justice information and those schools do not report that their campuses are less safe as a result,” the study stated.

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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards removed provisions from the state budget Tuesday (June 27) that were added by House Republicans

explaining his veto.

The governor didn’t make many changes to the budget bill, perhaps because what the Legislature passed was close to what he wanted in the end. Another version of the budget being pushed by House Republicans, and opposed by the governor, failed to gain enough support for legislative approval.

In the end, the Republican House ended up backing the spending plan endorsed by Edwards.

Fourteen Republicans voted for it, over the objections of their own House GOP leadership.

As signed by Edwards, the budget fully funds the TOPS college scholarship program next year and gives higher education more funding than it has seen in about a decade. It also provides 38,000 state employees with pay raises in 2018.

Still, not everyone got what they wanted. Some Medicaid patients will go without mental health services, and hospitals that serve at-risk populations won’t receive as much funding as they wanted.

The Edwards administration also is supposed to hold $60 million

in reserve in case revenue falls short of projections during the year. The administration has not provided a detailed plan for spreading around the $60 million hold-back.

Lawmakers ending up blowing a deadline for passing the budget during their regular 2017 session.

Unable to reach agreement, they immediately entered a special session, with every day costing the state an estimated $50,000 to $60,000.

In addition to the budget changes, Edwards has vetoed seven other pieces of legislation, mostly sponsored by House Republicans.

The Legislature has the authority to override gubernatorial vetoes,

including those from the budget bill, but it very rarely happens. The House and Senate each must vote by a two-thirds majority to overrule the governor’s decision.

And because the Legislature is adjourned, lawmakers would also have to agree -- by a majority in each chamber -- to return to Baton Rouge for a specific veto override session in July to challenge Edwards’ decisions. Such a session has never been held in the modern history of Louisiana. Only two veto overrides have occurred in the past 45 years, and they both happened while the lawmakers were already in session in Baton Rouge.

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To Stink, or Not to Stink, That is the Question

By Dr. James L. Snyder There are all kinds of questions in this world of ours. Most are rather annoying. It would not surprise me in the least if there were a gang of hooligans somewhere hired to make up silly questions. If I could find this gang, I would disperse them immediately, without a question.

Of course, there is the fact that the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage is in cahoots with these question-maker-uppers. Every once in a while she comes up with questions for Yours Truly.

It is not the questions I object to but rather the answers I am supposed to give in connection to the questions. My wife has a silly notion that the answers I give should be in direct correlation to the questions she asked. Who made up this rule?

Oops, that was a question. Sorry about that.

It is my opinion, and mine alone, especially in my home, that if I am asked a question I should have the option to give the answer I want to give whether it relates to the question or not. My wife insists

my answer should be a response to her question.

Last week, for example, she put to me a very penetrating question. ‘’What is that awful smell?’’

I would not have taken offense to the question so much, but she was looking straight at me when she posed it. What I took from the question was that I, for some reason unbeknownst to me, smelled pretty bad. Even though it was not Saturday night, I took the hint and marched my raunchy body to the bathroom for a bath.

My wife has superhuman smelling properties. She can smell a rotten apple while it is still a blos-

som on the apple tree.

On the drive to the office, I noticed something rather peculiar.

My car stank. There was some terrible odor in my car that I could not identify.

I arrived at my office, got seated behind my desk and began some work when I noticed something peculiar. My office stank.

Finally I gave up and went home. ‘’What is that awful smell?’’

My wife was looking straight at me with the obvious conclusion that the smell was coming from my direction. ‘’Where is that smell coming from?’’ my wife demanded as she approached me with her nostrils flaring. The closer she got to me the more her nose wrinkled in agony.

It was then she made a startling conclusion. ‘’That odor is coming from you. You stink.’’

Well, if words could kill you would be reading a very nice obituary in the newspaper this morning.

I was deeply offended by this observation.

When she got close to me, she examined my person very carefully and then looked down at my shoes. ‘’How long have you had those shoes?’’

They were my favorite shoes so I had them quite a long time.

I mumbled something like about five years. ‘’Aha, it is your shoes that stink. Those shoes are rotten and you will have to throw them out. I do not want to see those shoes in this house ever again.’’

I was reminded of a verse in the Bible. ‘’For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.’’ (Jeremiah 2:22 KJV).

You can clean up all you want to but if you are still wearing rotten shoes you still stink.

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Thursday, June 29, 2017 • The Weekly Press • Page 5

A Coalition of Black Lawmakers Wants Uber to Diversify its Top Ranks The Congressional Black Caucus sends a letter to the embattled ride-hailing service, urging it to make diversity a priority when filling top-level jobs.

Rep. Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, wants Uber to place more African Americans in leadership roles.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus sent a letter Monday to the embattled ridehailing company, urging Uber’s board to consider African American candidates for its top post after CEO Travis Kalanick was forced to step down last week.

SiriusXM’s Joe Madison Hosts A Roundtable Of Veteran Journalists, Politicians & Political Commentators To Discuss President Trump’s First 100 Days The CBC’s letter, addressed to Uber Chairman Garrett Camp, noted that the company didn’t have blacks in key high-level posts that are now vacant, such as chief operating officer, chief financial officer, chief marketing officer and general counsel, nor on its board. These are positions the CBC said it believes would “benefit” from African American leadership. The CBC also wants Uber to provide a written, detailed plan on what steps the

company will take to hire more diverse leadership.

“Given the broad reach of Uber and the impact it continues to have on communities across the country, we remain vigilant of developments within the company,” said the letter signed by CBC Chair Cedric Richmond and three other prominent members.

Uber responded in a statement that it’s committed to making the company a “more diverse and inclusive workplace at all levels of the organization, and we’ll continue to engage with community leaders like the CBC as we work to achieve this important goal.”

The CBC’s letter comes less than a week after Uber investors pressured Kalanick into resigning. It also comes as Uber -- a privately held company valued at almost $70 billion that operates in more than 60 countries -- is struggling to regain its footing.

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Raising Cane’s Donates $20,000 Youth Programs BATON ROUGE, LA Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers donates $20,000 to 100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge, LTD. to support the organization’s mentoring/education programs for disadvantaged and at-risk youth in the East Baton Parish.

Last week, Raising C a n e ’s F o u n d e r a n d C E O To d d G r a v e s p r e s e n t e d a check to 100 Black Men of Metro’s President Michael W. Victorian, John F. Smith and Dr. Adell Brown, Jr. at the company’s downtown Baton Rouge headquarters.

“We are proud to support 100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge and their impactful youth programs. Baton Rouge is our home and headquarters and we recognize the positive role that 100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge plays in our community,” says Graves.

“The goal of 100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge is to be the leading mentoring organization in Baton Rouge, not because of what we say, but because of what we do,” Michael W. Victorian, President &

COB, 100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge 2013-2017.

The mission of One Hundred Black Men of Metropolitan Baton Rouge, Ltd. is to give

substance to a shared vision, which fosters and develops model programs that build community by enhancing lives of our African-American youth. http://

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Contact Michael W. Victorian at 225-802-0473 or by e-mail at mvictorian@cox.net for additional information.

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One job leads to another.

We thank our employees and contractors who were involved— all 2,186 of them—in the safe and successful first quarter turnaround at the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery.

Planned maintenance activities not only help improve operating units at ExxonMobil, but the reinvestment into our facilities also infuses millions of dollars into the Baton Rouge area economy.

This turnaround alone had a $200 million economic investment and a $61.7 million payroll for 1.5 million injury-free work hours.

Energy lives here.

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Energy lives in Baton Rouge.

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Weekly Press • Thursday, June 29, 2017

SPORTS

Russell Westbrook Wins Most Valuable Player At 2017 NBA Awards As the regular season wound down, the takes flew fast and furious, but now, the debate is over.

At the inaugural NBA Awards show in New York on Monday night, Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Russell Westbrook was named the NBA’s 2016-17 Most Valuable Player.

Westbrook topped fellow finalists James Harden of the Houston Rockets and Kawhi Leonard of the San Antonio Spurs in the voting, following a campaign in which he became the first player since Oscar Robertson during the 1961-62 season to average a triple-double over the course of an entire NBA season. The 28-year-old All-Star point guard averaged an NBA-best 31.6 points, 10.7 rebounds and 10.4 assists per night, absolutely carrying a Thunder team that had just lost top scorer Kevin Durant in free agency to a playoff berth despite a glaring lack of secondary creators and offensive talent surrounding him.

Thunder’s Russell Westbrook made all types of history during his 2017 NBA MVP season...

After taking the stage and accepting the Maurice Podoloff Trophy, Westbrook quickly thanked God before expressing gratitude to the Thunder organization — owner

Clay Bennett, general manager Sam Presti, assistant general manager Troy Weaver, coach Billy Donovan, assistant coach Maurice Cheeks — for “believing in me and drafting me No. 4 [overall in the 2008 NBA draft] when nobody thought that was a great decision.” Westbrook then made a point of thanking all of the behind-the-scenes folks who make the Thunder run — “the film guys, the team doctors, the trainers, the massage therapists, the strength and conditioning staff, the equipment team,” and even the business office and chefs — for helping get him ready to compete every night.

Westbrook then brought several of his teammates in attendance in Manhattan — Nick Collison, Andre Roberson, Taj Gibson, Enes Kanter and Dunk of the Year winner Victor Oladipo — up on stage to share the moment with him.

“These are my brothers, man,” Westbrook said. “These guys sacrificed so much for me throughout the year. It was obviously an amazing season for me, but without these guys [and] the rest of our guys that’s not here, man, none of this would be possible. So this award is not for me. It’s for all of these guys, and I’m very, very thankful to have you guys in my corner. You guys

Westbrook was voted MVP on Monday night after setting a record with 42 triple-doubles during his historic season. He led the league with 31.6 points and added 10.7 rebounds and 10.4 assists per game, joining Robertson as the only players to average a triple-double for the season and breaking Robertson’s single-season record of 41 triple-doubles in 1961-62.

are my brothers, for life.”

Westbrook got 69 of 100 possible first-place votes in MVP balloting, topping Harden (22), Leonard (nine) and fourth-place finisher LeBron James, according to the NBA: That left the famously bristly

Westbrook in a somewhat unfamiliar position on the stage.

“I never thought I’d be saying this up here today, but: I want to thank the media,” he joked. “[…]

I feel like I go out every night and compete at a very, very high level, and I’m thankful for you guys notic-

ing that, so thank you.”

After making special mention of the fans in Oklahoma City, who’ve been “riding with me since day one, through good games, bad games, always there, lifting me up,” Westbrook turned his attention — and his emotion — to his family.

“Without you guys, I don’t know where I would be,” he said.

“I can’t be standing here without your support, your sacrifice, everything you guys have done for me, starting with my parents. My parents’ … man. You guys did any and everything to make sure me and my brother had anything we wanted.”

At that, he laughed, and took off his glasses.

“I told myself I wasn’t going to cry,” he said.

And yet, he got choked up.

“I can’t say thank you enough,” he continued. “You guys sacrificed.

Everything you’ve done … Pops, O.G., working two jobs, getting up at four in the morning, waking me up every night, going to the gym, shooting hoops outside, staying up late, playing the video games, man.

To my mom, doing everything to keep our family together. Truly blessed to have you as my mother.

It’s just so amazing — I couldn’t be able to do none of this without you guys. I can’t say thank you enough.

There are so many things I can say about you guys, just for putting me here. I’m just thankful to have you guys in my corner. I love you guys.”

DeMarcus Cousins Has Dropped A Ton Of Weight This Offseason Already New Orleans Pelicans DeMarcus Cousins has been known to carry a bit of weight on his frame. He is currently listed at 6-foot-11 and 270 pounds.

It appears that last bit has significantly changed over the off-season.

Cousins has reportedly dropped quite a bit of weight during his off-season regimen, eating right and even hiring the personal trainer who made Julius Randle look so good in just a short amount of time for the Los Angeles Lakers.

Speaking to WDSU, Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry Said cousins was primed to take a new role for the pelicans next season, taking on a bit of a ball handler role as a point center. That should be easily done now that cousins have gained a little bit of mobility

by shedding some weight.

Via WDSU: When I saw DeMarcus, his body looked great. He invited us to his house for lunch; he’s eating really healthy — he’s got a chef that he’s hired. I was really, really excited about what

he’s taken from the standpoint of trying to get himself ready for the season and obviously he feels like this is a very important season for him.

Looking at Cousins’ Instagram, you can clearly see the results of his eating and training

regimen. He looks damn near svelte.

The newly formed Pelicans had a disappointing end to the season, but with more time together they will certainly be one of the teams to watch in the Western Conference.

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