Hospital Patient Gets Shot By Security Guard While In Treatment & More News You Need To Know
Also in today's news, New York City is taking a big stand on violence against Black women and PBS NewsHour is creating a new show exploring racial intolerance.
Doctors Are Outraged After A Patient Was Shot By Police On Hospital Grounds
In the video above, Alan Christopher Pean, a 26-year-old patient who turned himself in at Houston’s St. Joseph’s Medical Center for an anxiety attack, is thanking his supporters for the care he has received after being shot in the chest by security guard O. Ortega.
Pean, Ortega, and another guard, R. Law got into a scuffle after hospital staff members reported Pean as combative; however, medical professionals have been complaining that things went too far, as they say that the shooting was “inexcusable” and that the patient should have never been hurt while seeking medical attention. Pean’s shooting injury is indicative of a larger problem, as shootings on hospital grounds have increased from nine per year to almost 17 from 2000 to 2011. Read more on the story at The Huffington Post.
Up Next: NYC Is Taking Big Strides To Address Sexual And Domestic Violence Against Women Of Color
New York City Is Setting Out On A Mission To Fight Violence Against Women In Communities Of Color
Rosemonde Pierre-Louis, pictured far left, is taking New York by storm as the commissioner of the city’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence. Just within the past year, Pierre-Louis has organized over 1,300 outreach events across the city where communities of color are disproportionately impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault.
The office’s work is in desperate need; figures from the Women of Color Network show that 40 percent of Black women report being sexually abused by the age of 18. Still, it’s widely known that in reality, even more women are abused than that because rape and sexual assault is grossly underreported across socioeconomic groups. Read more at The Huffington Post.
Up Next: FL Man’s Lawn Gets Defiled With The N-Word
Man Comes Home To Find Someone Burned The N-Word Into His Lawn
Courtney Gordon is standing strong after his home was vandalized in Palm Bay, FL. An assailant used a chemical substance to burn the word “nigger” at the size of three feet in his front lawn. Gordon says he thinks he knows who committed the crime but investigators say it will be near impossible to convict anyone unless they come forward. Gordon is now permanently leaving on his surveillance camera and is calling the vandal responsible a “coward.” Read more at The Root.
Up Next:PBS NewsHour To Broadcast A Yearlong Series On Racial Intolerance
History-Making Journalist To Host A PBS Series On Diversity And Racial Discrimination
Charlayne Hunter-Gault once broke barriers by becoming one of the first African American students to enroll in the University of Georgia. Now she’s hosting Race Matters, a PBS NewsHour program discussing America’s issues in handling racial conflict, diversity and solutions to bring harmony across different communities.
After being chosen for the show, Hunter-Gault said: “I am so pleased that a program with such gravitas as the PBS NewsHour is paying serious attention to America’s most enduring challenge: racism…It is my hope that these conversations will lead to greater understanding and narrowing of the racial divide.” Read more at The Root.
