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Page 2 - Section A, CLEVELAND ADVOCATE, Friday, September 2,1988
•Citizen asks for Council’s help
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to Precinct 20 because he was
“scared.”
“What is he afraid of?” she asked
Council.
She asked Council what was going
to be done to control drug trafficking
in her community. She then asked,
“What steps are you all going to take
in cleaning up the police depart-
ment?”
She asked if it would be alright for
her to ask Mayor Boyett some
questions as well as asking Council if
other members in the audience
could address the group. Boyett
informed her, he was there to listen
to her, not to answer questions and
she was informed, for anyone else to
speak they would have to be on the
agenda.
Councilwoman Meta Thomas
asked Bradford to explain exactly
what she and the group she
represents would like the council to
do.
“I never see any patrolmen in
Precinct 20,” Bradford replied.
“When I was a senior in high school,
we went to the park, and we drank
beer. We had to run, I mean
everytime you turned around you
saw a police officer back in (19)82.
But now, since the drug problem’s so
bad, you never see them. Since the
Kenneth Simpson deal, you never
see them. Why?”
Other than increased patrols,
however, Bradford offered no other
explanations as to exactly what
needed to be done. She once again
told Council, “We need your help”
and that it was “hell to be poor down
there.”
“I’ve got a job,” Bradford said.
“I’m not a freeloader. I want to
make my own way. But until you all
do something and get some help and
get it cleaned up up here, it’s going
to get worse.
“The drug players are going to
come from Precinct 20, across that
highway and going to be all up here,
I promise. They’re going to be
burglarizing your homes...When it
starts happening to you, maybe
something will be done.”
She said that although she didn’t
feel race was an issue, that there
were some problems she thought
edged on racism.
“There have been a lot of things
been said that “nigger this” and
“nigger that,” Bradford said. “I am
not prejudiced. I went through
school spending nights with white
friends. I wore white people’s
clothes. So, it’s not a matter of
racism to me, for other people it
might be. But not to me. I can live
and deal with anybody. If you want
respect, you have to give respect.”
She commented that Kenneth
Primeaux, a fulltime Houston
fireman and parttime warrant of-
ficer with the Cleveland police, had
spoke at one of the community’s
churches.
“Take off the time and come down
there, visit with some of us,”
Bradford said. “Come down there
and spend the day. Come visit our
churches. Kenneth (Primeaux)
came. We ask him to come. He
came, he visited, and he shedded
tears like I’m shedding tears. It’s
because he cares.”
Primeaux, she said, had helped
her family during the times drugs
were a major problem in her family.
“Nobody has come to help us but
(Primeaux),” she said. “He’s of-
fered foods, gas money for tran-
sportation just to help us, to get my
brother some help and get him off
the streets. And his problem is
drugs.
“It’s out there. It’s hitting us in the
face. And whether you all believe it
or not, it’s going to eventually hit
your families if it hasn’t hit them
already if we don’t do something
about it.”
When Bradford finished, the room
erupted in applause from both the
audidence and Council. It was
evident many were moved by her
satements.
“I think Ms. Bradford did a
beautiful job presenting the
problems that we are faced with,”
said Councilwoman Thomas. “I live
in the community there too and I’m
aware of those problems. I think
time and time again I’ve spoken to
the police chief and told him to be
sure to circle the community, did I
not Chief,” she asked Police Chief
Harley Lovings. To which he
replied, “You sure have.”
Thomas went on to say she is
“always on the lookout” to make
sure police are patrolling the area.
She also agreed drug trafficking in
the area was bad and that it hurt the
entire community.
“Everytime we lose one of our
students or a member of the com-
munity,” Thomas, a respected
educator, said, “their death
diminishes us one way or another.
When they die, a part of us die also.”
“We’re going to have to do
something about it,” she said. Ad-
ding the people in the community
must help if the problem was to be
solved.
Councilmen Randy Mitchmore,
Howard Love and Lloyd Meadows
agreed and thanked Bradford for
going through the correct channels
in addressing Council.
Shortly thereafter Love made his
motion. After it was passed, Council
adjourned.
At left — Noble Garvey
receives instruction from
CPR instructor Jenny
Connor at the First
Methodist Church during a
recent CPR class. Charter
Community Hospital offers
monthly classes for the
community Many hundreds
of area recipients have been
certified through the classes.
Call 593-2192 for more in-
formation. Above photo —
Wayne Whittaker, Charter
ER Nurse Manager displays
Life-Pak equipment used on
cardiac arrestd patients^
the ER. (Photos by r!H
LOWE)
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