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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.
Competing for a national title on the field it uses for practice is a dream scenario for any team, but for the UF Paintball Club, that scenario involves a trip to Lakeland.
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.
First it was the hippies and communist professors who were corrupting our children’s minds with radical concepts such as gravity and the letter “Q.” Then it was those damn femi-Nazis who wanted to turn our prom queens into jezebels who choke down birth control pills like Skittles.
Kofi Adu-Brempong is still recovering in the hospital, but he’s no longer under Alachua County Sheriff’s Office custody.
We’re not sure about you, but it’s been quite an eventful week here at the Alligator.
UF Student Body President Jordan Johnson was cited for disorderly conduct by the University Police Department after demanding a SNAP ride to his off-campus home at about 1:45 a.m. Saturday.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The UPD offense report from the March 20 incident can be viewed in full at the bottom of this article.
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.
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.
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.
The five University Police officers involved in the March 2 shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong were placed on administrative duty under UPD policy.
Following the controversial shooting of Ghanian graduate assistant Kofi Adu-Brempong by University Police, Students for a Democratic Society presented a list of demands to Vice President of Student Affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin. Listed below are these demands followed by the Editorial Board’s recommendations.
Shouting “We want justice! We want it now!” about 300 students, faculty members and Gainesville residents marched from Turlington Plaza to Emerson Hall Tuesday afternoon to protest the University Police shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong.
Solutions by The State News
