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“All Hands On Deck”To Catch Tramire’s Shoote
PAUL BASS PHOTO
8:30 a.m.: Shift line-up on Kensington Street.
Neighbors who heard the gunshot that hit a 1 1/2-year-old boy awoke to another surprise Thursday: a first-ever police shift line-up right out on their street.
Elisa Castillo hopped into her 1996 Camry right after the line-up and turned on the ignition—with trepidation.
The key turned. The car started. She went on her way.
Meanwhile, officers left the line-up and swarmed the block talking to every neighbor they could find, resuming the hunt for evidence.
Cops gathered back at the intersection for another line-up at 5 p.m., at the beginning of the evening shift. Assistant Chief Casanova and Chief Casanova again delivered remarks to the cops, this time with a bank of TV cameras looking on
Four rows of A Squad patrol officers and detectives from around the city lined up at 8:30 a.m. to start their shift—not at headquarters, as usual, but on Kensington Street.
They stood in front of the porch of 58-60 Kensington, where a gunman riding by in a car fired bullets at 2:31 p.m. Wednesday. One of those bullets struck 1 1/2-year-old Tramire Miller in the stomach —and ignited citywide grief and outrage.
Tramire’s condition had improved and was no longer critical Thursday morning, according to Yale-New Haven Hospital spokesman Mark D’Antonio. “Good news,” D’Antonio said. “He’s been upgraded” to “fair” condition. Tramire was feeling well enough to high-five the nurse who moved him from a gurney to a bed at Yale-New Haven’s Children Hospital.
Meanwhile, cops fanned out in the Dwight-Kensington and Hill neighborhoods through the night and morning following what a top cop called “strong leads” in the drive-by shooting.
And at 8:30 a.m., dozens of officers lined up to hear Capt. Joann Peterson call the roll and Assistant Chief Luiz Casanova give them their marching orders.
“We want all hands on deck,” Casanova declared. (Click on the play arrow to the above video to watch highlights.)
“The reason we’re doing this line-up out here today is because we want to reassure the communitythat the New Haven police department is on the scene. That every cop working in this city, every detective working in this city, is going to be on the case. A 1-year-old kid got shot in our community. Unacceptable. Unacceptable. Some of you guys are parents. Some of you guys are fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts. Pretend like this is a of your family. I want this investigated like if it was a kid that belonged to you.”
A few doors down the block, Celena Jones woke up her sister Kianna Jones. Kianna rushed out to her porch in her sweats to watch the show.
She’d seen police line-ups “on TV or the movies” before but never in person, Kianna said.
“I thought they was gonna bust somebody’s house in” at first, she said. Then she saw the lectern.
“Thank God they’re coming here,” she said. “It should have been sooner.”
“It’s good,” said a neighborhood who stood right behind the line-up, watching. He declined to give his name. “But it’s like a war zone. These dealers don’t care about show time.”
Chief Dean Esserman, who also addressed the line-up, said he had previously held an out-in-the-street line-up following a major crime when he ran Providence’s department. “I stole the idea from London [police],” he said. He had told Assistant Chief Casanova about it. Casanova remembered the idea and decided Tramire’s shooting was the right time to try it out.
The car was parked right in front of 58-60 Kensington; she lives there, in the same house as Tramire’s family. One of the gunman’s bullets Wednesday hit her car, right by the gas tank.
“I just hope nothing happens when I turn it on,” she said as she prepared to head for class at GatewayCommunity College.
Officer Arpad Tolnay speaks in Spanish with neighbors across the street from Tramire’s house.
THOMAS MACMILLAN PHOTO
Double Dutch League hits New Haven: wtnh.com
New Haven, Conn. (WTNH) - The National Double Dutch League jumped into New Haven today as part of an initiative to get more kids on the path to a healthy lifestyle.The National Double Dutch League has partnered with United Healthcare and the Boys & Girls Club for the free workshops to encourage kids to turn off the TV and get moving.
"It's a great event to get the kids up and moving," said Seth Poole, New Haven Boys and Girls Club.
"You need some jump ropes and you need some friends, go outside and play. It's one of the best ways to stay in shape," said Anayo Afolabi, United Healthcare.
United Healthcare estimates by 2020, half of our nation's population will either be diabetic or pre-diabetic due to obesity. The plan is to inspire kids, like 11-year old Chynna Moore, that exercise is fun, and maybe it will become a staple of their lives, saving health care costs in the process.
"It's better than sitting down playing video games and doing nothing," Chynna said.
Research shows that 10 minutes of jumping rope is equivalent to a 30-minute jog
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City of New Haven Unveils William Lanson Statue
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Today the City of New Haven, artist Dana King, Al Marder and the Amistad Committee, State and local elected officials formally unveiled the statue of William Lanson. William Lanson was an historical figure, an 18th century runaway slave, who was a major property owner in New Haven, provided opportunity for many other people of color in the community, and a master engineer who worked on an array of monumental infrastructure projects that shaped the City into what it is today.
New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker said, “Not much is known about Mr. Lanson’s early life, but one thing is abundantly clear: he has made an incredible mark on New Haven. His perseverance and ingenuity has had a lasting impact on our community that we still see today,” he concluded.
During his remarks, New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker highlighted some of the great feats from William Lanson that would transform the New Haven community. At the reception just two days prior to the statue dedication, Elicker reminded attendees that Lanson extended Long Wharf in a project that lasted two years (1810-1812), making New Haven’s Long Wharf the longest wharf at that time, which would greatly improve and link the economic hubs in the community. The site of the statue dedication, the Farmington Canal Trail, also holds serious significance, as Lanson was contracted to build the wall of the harbor basin where the canal would empty.
Artist Dana King released the following statement:
I am honored to have taken a prominent role in memorializing William Lanson, who was such an important figure in the New Haven community. William Lanson built an integrated community in what is now Wooster Square, advocated for voting rights for free Black people, building vital infrastructure that increased wealth for New Haveners, yet never received the credit he deserves. He gave everything he had to create a better New Haven and died after having his property taken from him and his reputation deliberately tarnished. Now more than ever, we must honor Black lives, by rectifying mistakes of the past and present. William Lanson represents so much to African descendants: our history, our struggles, and our triumphs. Thank you to the Amistad Committee for giving me this extraordinary opportunity.
Alder ward 22 Mrs Morrison
Others in attendance at the event included Director of Arts and Cultural Affairs at the City Adriane Jefferson, former Mayor Toni Harp, Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz, President Al Marder and members of the Amistad Committee, members of the State Delegation and Board of Alders, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro.
For information on William Lanson, read below or visit this link.
William Lanson, a runaway slave: a leader in the struggle for the right of free Blacks to vote; one of the founders of the Temple Street Church (now Dixwell United Church of Christ); harbored runaway slaves; owned Wooster Square. Lanson succeeded at most everything he aspired to accomplish by pushing open and bravely walking through doors that were closed to him and other formerly enslaved and freemen/women in 19th century America. He did it by turning empty, mostly undesirable land into vibrant neighborhoods filled with housing for marginalized, invisible people. He did it employing Black people in the construction of New Haven’s early infrastructure. And he also spoke out on behalf of those whose voices were ignored. Later in life, the white power structure determined that William Lanson’s time was up. He had become way too powerful for a Black man. When that happened, the system felled him like the deeply rooted tree that he had become.
For more information on artist and sculptor Dana King, read below or visit this link.
Dana King is a classical figurative sculptor who creates public monuments of Black Bodies in Bronze. She studies the strength and resilience of African descendants and create pieces made of clay with her hands that are then cast in bronze. King prefers sculptures because they inhabit space and space is power. She believes sculpture provides an opportunity to shape culturally significant memories that determine how African descendants are publicly held and remembered. Research is fundamental to her work. When digging for threads to weave together stories of the past, there are historically generalized and racist ideologies that demand a wholesale upheaval of the normative misrepresentation of Black peoples’ emotional and physical sacrifices. African descendants deserve public monuments of truth that radiate their powerful and undying resilience created from a Black aesthetic point of view. King’s sculptures link generations by revealing common threads: shared values, experiences, and aspirations. She knows they help those alive today compare and contrast their world with that of social pioneers, both enslaved and free, whose courage and commitment to excellence helped create modern society. Dana King creates memories, hoping you see yourself and those you love in her work.
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