Counselors explain crisis response protocol
Kofi Adu-Brempong was afraid he was going to be kidnapped, taken to Africa and slain in a ritual killing.
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Kofi Adu-Brempong was afraid he was going to be kidnapped, taken to Africa and slain in a ritual killing.
It goes without saying that students should not have to fear the police who are employed to protect them. Kofi Adu-Brempong’s incident is surely a moment the University Police Department should learn from. But the student organizations calling for the end of the Critical Incident Response Team are clearly missing the point.
Editor’s Note: This is the first segment of a two-part series describing the teams employed by the university to respond in crisis situations.
Equipped with new chants but the same purpose, about 250 people crowded on Turlington Plaza Tuesday afternoon to protest the University Police Department shooting of a UF graduate student.
A rally calling for justice for graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong will take place today from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Turlington Plaza.
I was standing on Turlington Plaza Monday with some members of the Coalition for Justice Against Police Brutality, telling students walking by about the shooting of Kofi Adu-Brempong by the University Police Department. As we were handing out fliers for today’s protest, a girl stopped me and asked me about the incident. To no fault of her own, she said she hadn’t heard anything about it and wanted to know how UPD could possibly shoot an international student on campus.
Keith Smith, the University Police Department officer who shot graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong last month, has elected to remain on vacation instead of returning to administrative duty.
Kofi Adu-Brempong is still recovering at Shands Cancer Hospital, but the hospital’s patient directory says otherwise.
Kofi Adu-Brempong is still recovering in the hospital, but he’s no longer under Alachua County Sheriff’s Office custody.
When the students of GEA 1000, Section 2238 returned from spring break, they were supposed to learn about climate change.
Behind closed doors, Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin met with members of the Coalition for Justice Against Police Brutality Tuesday afternoon to discuss the demands the coalition made at last week’s rally protesting the University Police Department shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong.
After the University Police Department shooting of Kofi Adu-Brempong on March 2, staff members of the UF Counseling & Wellness Center are making themselves available to students who want to talk about the incident.
I want to publicly thank several student senators who reached across party lines Tuesday night to help pass the Student Alliance’s resolution calling for a grand jury investigation into the shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong. The Unite Party’s leadership repeatedly tried to make amendments to the bill that would have watered it down to the point of meaninglessness, even over objections from numerous members of the public who came out to support the resolution.
The Coalition Against Police Brutality does not share the Editorial Board’s faith in Margolis, Healy & Associates.
Graduate students stood up for one of their own Thursday.
The line from Wednesday’s editorial on the Kofi Adu-Brempong shooting that reads, “We also question why he was shot in the jaw rather than a safer location,” is beyond ignorant.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has a copy of a video showing the moments leading to the March 2 University Police Department shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong and is examining the video as part of its investigation.
The City Commission works for us, the taxpayers, just like the police are supposed to.
The Alligator’s coverage of the shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong has been shameful. The story was first reported not as a front-page headline, as warranted, but buried deep within the paper. What pressing development grabbed the front page headline that day?
Much of the Alligator coverage in the past two weeks has dealt with the actions of the University Police during the tragic shooting of graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong. But another, equally great tragedy is the scant coverage of the extremely poor response to a man suffering from poor mental health.