News Re: Teaching While Black
posted by on April 11 at 12:13 PM
Rajnii Eddins, the 26-year-old African-American writer and teaching artist arrested by police for a disputed obstruction charge (Eddins said he was trying to calmly inquire about the arrest of one of his students, the police report said he was being “non-compliant,” you can read about it here), had his arraignment yesterday.
He plead not guilty. His case goes to trial May 29th.
Eddins, a slam poet, has taught and led writing workshops at Seattle Public Library, Seattle Art Museum, schools, and (ironically) youth detention centers, mostly through youth-advocacy organizations like Arts Corps whose director, Tina LaPadula, attended the hearing. She said the place was packed with Rajnii’s supporters—old and young, black and white and Hispanic and Asian, men and women. “It made me teary,” she said.
LaPadula also reminded me of this story, about another Arts Corps teaching artist who got arrested (and beaten) when he questioned a police officer who was giving somebody else a hard time.
Hey, speaking of slog’s outrage over outrageous behavior, (and past Sloging) what ever became of the DJ DV-One story line? Solg built that up to milk it for racist police brutality, and then it just sorta died… What happened? (Did the story not pan out the way the Stranger would have liked?)
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You had me until "slam poet". Slam poetry itself should be against the law.
Thanks hyperlinker, read all those. But then what happened? (Four stories in seven days and then silence?) Did he cop a plea? Jump bail? Get convicted? And more importantly was the cop pilloried to the Stranger’s satisfaction?
toby (DV one) is currently awaiting trial. he was supposed to go to trial several weeks ago but the prosecutor is still involved in another trial, so his has been postponed until further notice. so he is stuck waiting for a resolution and currently has no idea when his case will be heard, hopefully in the next few weeks. the legal system is SLOW as molasses.
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