Guru Idola Siswa: November 2019

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Students walk out of U-Va. meeting over bloody arrest University of Virginia students stormed out of a meeting Friday aimed at resolving questions tied to Wednesday's violent arrest of a student leader, who is black. In a recap on its website, the school based in Charlottesville, Va., described the public forum organized by the school's Student Council as "spirited." Audience members frequently responded to officials' statements with "Answer the questions we asked" and chanted "black lives matter," according to published reports. The latter evolved as the rallying cry among protesters angered at the August 2013 death of black teen Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer. About 350 people packed into the meeting at U-Va.'s Newcomb Hall. The tension is over the early Wednesday arrest of student Martese Johnson, 20, by officers with the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control outside of a bar after Johnson was denied entry into the establishment shortly after St. Patrick's Day festivities. Photos of Johnson just after the incident that spread via social media show him bloodied by injuries that required stitches. The incident has prompted a state administrative review and criminal investigation, and fueled tensions simmering over the way black males are treated by the police. The investigation "will take time, even weeks," the school reported that Brian Moran, Virginia's secretary of public safety and homeland security, said at the heated meeting. Moran's office oversees the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, or ABC. "We ask for your patience, for this community's patience, until that investigation is concluded," Moran said, according to the school. "And let me assure you that if the findings indicate that corrective actions are indeed needed, we will not hesitate to take those actions." Aryn Frazier, a second-year student who is political action chair of the school's Black Student Alliance, said black people have been part of the school since its inception, but still struggle to maintain equality with other students, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "We are here because we love ourselves, we love our families and we love our friends, and we want to build a better university, and a better Charlottesville community," the school quoted Frazier as saying. Frazier, reached by e-mail Friday evening, said she and other student representatives would speak with the media on Saturday. Student Council President Jalen Ross did not respond to an e-mail sent Friday evening.

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Rabu, 06 November 2019

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