Name: Durham councilman: Weeping and weeping at Chauvin verdict
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Description: Mark-Anthony Middleton told WRAL News that he wept when he learned Derek Chauvin had been found guilty and he wept again for those who have died at the hands of police.

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Mark-Anthony Middleton told WRAL News that he wept when he learned Derek Chauvin had been found guilty and he wept again for those who have died at the hands of police.

driving here to meet you. I was listening to the verdict coming on the radio and I started tearing up and weeping. And then I started weeping because I was weeping because I realized that as obvious as this verdict was, what should have come about, the history just does not lend us to being cocky about it or certain about it. So I started weeping because I was weeping. Um, I knew I saw what everybody else saw. That man was murdered. He was lynched in broad daylight, knee on the neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds. And yet there always has to be an asterisk next to black and brown pain in this country. Um, you know, without the tape, we we watched the tape of of you're probably too young to remember Rodney King. I mean, that was on tape. Um, and we saw what happened there. So, so I think so many of us and after the 10 hours, uh, deliberation time, we knew that the normal calculus would suggest that that's a guilty verdict, That's good news for us, but there's always an asterisk next to our cases because we know we don't really have a history of prosecuting and punishing police officers uh for brutality for things done under the color of authority, illegal things done under color of authority. And we know that for every George Floyd, there are the scores of brothers and sisters who are in their graves right now who did not have a chance to have their families here, a guilty verdict because we didn't have sex smartphones, they weren't taped. So it's a it's a bittersweet day. Um this was the verdict that was supposed to happen, but because of history, you know, we can't celebrate until we hear it. And even then it's a muted celebration because we've got to get right back to work. And speaking of collaborations, we're sitting here in downtown Durham right now where there is very mellow, there is no sense of protests are also really celebratory action when you think about it at the end of the day of life was still lost. Yeah, absolutely. I think it had there been a not guilty verdict. Um I think we would have seen some some activity out here, um but I think people are just, we're exhausted. You know, it's just exhausting um to be a member of certain communities uh in this, in this country, and while we, I know we're pleased at the verdict was the right thing was supposed to happen, there's there's a sobriety that comes in knowing that why why is this celebratory, why is the obvious? Why is what should have happened? As a matter of course, why do we have to celebrate those kind of things? And it reminds us of just how much more work we have left to be done. I hope that this sends a signal to Ricky officers around the, around the country that when you swear to fight crime, that means wherever you see it. I think when you have chiefs like Arredondo and our outgoing keep Sarah Lynn Davis, why put in the same class as keith Arredondo who are willing to snatch badges and then take the stand and tell us why they snatch those badges when you see other police professionals, uh ranking officers coming forward and testifying. You know, one case does not a panacea or bring about the millennium, but certainly can trigger an inflection point. I think signal an inflection point. And hopefully this case will start to ripple, the outcome of this case will start to ripple around the country and forward the work that still left to be done, a whole lot of work that's left to be done. And speaking of the work that's left to be done here in your own leasing those prize and protests locally, people in the street to fund the police at the police headquarters. What do you think it's going to be the next steps for the city of europe? As we look at probably police work, man tries against? Well, you know, there's a continuum uh spectrum and you've got to decide where you fall on that spectrum of folk who want full abolition and to fund the police. And there are those who want reform. Most of the people I know, I know that we need to reform. We need to have a serious transformation of policing in this country, but I'm also an elected person, so I've got to govern. So how we get there, the nuts and bolts of it? How do we power down one part of the orange chart and power up another part of the Orange chart without having service disruption. There are 300,000 people uh, in the city who count on me, people like me and my colleagues to make right decisions, sound decisions based upon ideology based upon values, but also rooted in good governance as well. And I think we're gonna have to continue having that discussion in Durham that's already been started, the ongoing discussion that is really just scratching the surface. Do you think that because of this, what's happened today, things will die down in regards to black lives matter and all of the racial justice effort? Well, I don't think so because this movement is not based upon one discrete case, it's based upon an entire corpus of cases based upon the system. Um, we still have, uh, the case of, uh, the brother in Minneapolis who was shot by the female, uh, police officer Dante. Right. Um, so, so unfortunately as we kind of breathe a sigh of relief on one case, given our history, the way things are, it's just a matter of time before there's another case. But hopefully, and I'm not hoping on it, but hopefully when that next case happens, um, the type of response we saw here, uh, will be uh, brought to bear and, you know, thank God for young black queens with cell phones who who see horrific things and instead of turned away, steeled herself and, and, and pointed her phone, I can't imagine what that did to her and what that's doing to her emotionally. But thank God she was there and she is a hero.

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Durham councilman: Weeping and weeping at Chauvin verdict

Mark-Anthony Middleton, Durham city councilman

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Brian Shrader flies over the site of a plane crash at Raleigh-Durham International Airport approximately three hours after the accident.

Seen some activity just in the past 10 minutes or so. I want to take you outside Sky five right now for a live look at the scene. We saw a van being escorted to the runway there and someone got out and now there appears to be a really careful inspection of the debris going on. So we're working to confirm if that may be the NTSB investigation team arriving at the scene. Let's zoom out and give you some about where this is. There are two main runways at RDU International and this is in the grassy field next to the runway that mostly serves terminal one on the east side of the airport, that runway remains closed while this investigation continues at the top of your screen. That is the other main runway that serves terminal two, mostly that runway is open. So we have two things going on here that could affect your flights for the rest of the day and maybe even into tomorrow, the airport takeoff and landing capacity is roughly reduced by half because they are only working with one runway. And if you have a flight coming out of terminal one, maybe Southwest, you're going to have to take that crossover all the way out to that other runway. It's going to add a lot of extra time.

Sky 5 flies over RDU plane crash 3 hours later 

A UNC Health physician and pilot were taken to the hospital Wednesday after a small plane crashed at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU).


Sky 5 flies over plane crash at RDU

RDU Airport Authority gives an update on a plane crash that sent a physician and pilot to the hospital. The crash occurred Wednesday morning on a flight that took off from Wilmington.

<p>Landguth first, I want to extend my thoughts to those affected by this morning's aircraft accident and thank our first responders for their quick action to respond. The airport authority and its mutual aid partners responded to an aircraft accident at RDU involving a general aviation aircraft. The accident occurred at approximately 10:10 a.m. in the grass next to runway five, right 23 left. The flight was arriving from Wilmington, North Carolina. The A the aircraft is owned by medical Air Inc and operated by UN C air operations. The aircraft had two people on board, one pilot and one passenger. Both were transported to area hospitals. The federal A Bush administration issued a ground stop that was lifted at approximately 1130 this morning. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have both been notified. The National Transportation Safety Board is en route and expected to arrive within the next hour at which time we will conduct an accident investigation. Rdu's runway five left 23 right reopened to departing and arriving aircraft around 11:30 a.m. this morning. Are you experiencing approximately 70 delays and several arriving flights were diverted to other airports? Until ground stock was lifted, travelers should contact their airline for the latest updates regarding the flight status. And of course questions about the identity and condition of the pilot and passenger should be directed to UN C health. And at this time I'll try to answer any questions. You may have, uh, the one, any other accidents in, in the past. I'm not familiar with any other accidents have occurred with that operation. I don't know, uh, that's the role of the National Transportation Safety Board. They'll actually come in and do the investigation. Uh, and at some point in the future, they write up a report and determine what the cause of the accident was. You know, that there was no notification to the airport authority or to the FAA uh about any type of emergency on board. Do we have a guy? We don't, all we know that we've got them out of the airplane and we've got them transported to local hospitals. We know situations like this and delays have a ripple effect on, you know, flights. Do you have any idea what type of impact we'll see here in our view and for not sure, but what we're going to encourage everybody to do is reach out to your airlines. We'll be able to give you real time information about the impact of your particular flight. Ok. I believe some of them went to Greensboro and I think a couple went to Charlotte as well. What, what to be impacted due to the NTSD. Say that one more time at this point in time, what we call the west side of our airport is now open the investigation they'll conduct will all be on the east side. So at this point, we are anticipating normal operations returning to normal operations from this point forward. I don't think that anything that they're doing regarding the investigation or where they would have to investigate would have any impact to the west side of the airport. No, the aircraft is still on the airfield itself. It's on the east side of the field. So terminal one that runways the east side of the field, that's where the debris field actually sits, the west side of the field is open and operational and safe to operate. Not that I'm aware of in operations for you throughout this event today. What was your main concern concerning the passengers that were in the internals? Right. I think our primary focus when, when that accident occurred were the two people sitting in that aircraft? Our primary mission is to make sure we can get to them and try to rescue them and try to make sure that we can get them in a safe condition as fast as we possibly can. Uh secondarily is trying to figure out then how we recover and get our operations back up and running. Mhm. How does that affect? What goes on term? Yeah, so great. Question. So the team has figured out a way to get all the aircraft they're gonna operate at terminal one. Your Southwest develops. Uh We've got a crossover taxi way that we can actually get them through our general aviation aircraft. We've got a crossover taxiway, we can get them to. But the rest of the uh accident scene is actually kind of isolated and closed and locked off. Yeah, you're terminal one at this point in time. Once they can get back on their schedule, it's going to be a normal operations. All right. Thank you guys. All right. Thank you. Grab your phone, right.</p>

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