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Audio Included in Post. Runs 52 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. A panel of Indianapolis teens spoke out on their reaction to the violence during Black Expo on a special Afternoons with Amos. Twelve teens from various area high schools gave their views on teens today, Expo events, unescorted youth downtown, and many other issues and problems today’s teens face.
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Audio Included in Post. Runs 47 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. A panel of Indianapolis teens spoke out on their reaction to the violence during Black Expo on a special Afternoons with Amos. Twelve teens from various area high schools gave their views on teens today, Expo events, unescorted youth downtown, and many other issues and problems today’s teens face.
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Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi has filed a fourteen count criminal complaint against the alleged shooter of nine persons during the Black Expo downtown July 18th. In a Probable Cause affidavit filed today (July 26th), prosecutors charged Shamus Patton with fourteen counts of battery, aggravated battery, criminal recklessness, carrying a handgun without a permit, dangerous possession of a firearm and criminal gang activity.
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The Indianapolis African-American community created Indiana Black Expo forty years ago. They feel a sense of ownership to the organization and event. Here’s a sampling of the e-mails Afternoons with Amos has received this week about the Black Expo violence and this year’s Expo events. The words are as the writers wrote them. Only punctuation and grammar changes were made. – Amos Brown
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Audio Included in Post. Runs 55 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Listeners and the community frankly gave their views on what was good, not so good and what could improved upon with this year’s 40th Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration. It was the 7th annual Community Evaluation of Black Expo on Afternoons with Amos. Listeners weighed in on exhibits, prices, food, the music events, and of course, the problems of violence and unescorted youth. Listen to the first hour
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Audio Included in Post. Runs 45 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Listeners and the community frankly gave their views on what was good, not so good and what could improved upon with this year’s 40th Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration. It was the 7th annual Community Evaluation of Black Expo on Afternoons with Amos.
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Audio Included in Post. Runs 8 Minutes. Indiana Black Expo President/CEO Tanya Bell announced this morning a formation of a Task Force to examine ways of making Indiana Black Expo, especially its youth events, safer in 2011.
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Amos Brown was downtown at Maryland and Illinois Streets when the violence that marred this year’s Indiana Black Expo occurred. Read his first person account of the scene before and after the incident and what the community must do.
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This video of the senseless death of 16 year old Derrion Albert has gotten the attention of the nation! It is time to stop the violence to prevent this from happening to more youth! Join me tonight from 6pm-8pm at the Christamore House to offer your solutions!
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