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Lafayette Police adopts parts of 8 Can’t Wait police reform campaign
A limited ban on using chokeholds and requiring de-escalation strategies are among the revisions adopted.
A limited ban on using chokeholds and requiring de-escalation strategies are among the revisions adopted.
Allowing the family to see the video would help bring clarity and closure to a publicly volatile situation. Through their attorney, the family commended Guillory’s efforts at reconciliation.
LCG committed Tuesday to shift $100,000 out of emergency funds currently dedicated to its business relief program and repurpose another $300,000 in regular housing program money to rent relief.
Many read it as a callous denial of help for those most in need, reinforcing a growing view that the mayor-president is heartless.
Moving slowly means the program could fall well short of its ambitions, while housing needs, another use of the source funding, continue to worsen.
State housing officials have asked regional partners to stop taking more into shelters, signaling that the program is likely to end soon, leaving many without anywhere else to go.
$80,000 was the total cost to run the four centers in 2019. Combined, they generated just under $32,000 in revenue — mostly from 58 rentals at the Heymann Park recreation center — and operated at a net loss of $48,000.
Their departures parallel sustained outrage at the mayor-president’s decision to shutter four recreation centers on Lafayette’s predominantly Black Northside.
Lafayette’s recently separated councils fell into the early makings of a constitutional impasse, only months into the new form of government.
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