{"id":8932,"date":"2023-07-13T16:40:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T16:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=8932"},"modified":"2023-07-13T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T16:40:20","slug":"csrn-continues-to-pursue-the-truth-the-village-of-swanton-makes-it-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/13\/csrn-continues-to-pursue-the-truth-the-village-of-swanton-makes-it-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"CSRN Continues to Pursue the Truth; The Village of Swanton Makes It Difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington Muhammad, Anika Fields, Kawana Hunter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Truth Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, July 5, Kawana Hunter\u2019s two sons, aged 13 and 16, were due in court in the town of Wauseon to face felony 4 charges of assault. The boys, who are Black, were involved in an altercation with white boys on May 13 and only Hunter\u2019s sons were charged by the Swanton police.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to pursue the truth,\u201d said Washington Muhammad, of the Community Solidarity Response Network, during a press conference on Monday, July 3, arranged to bring to light the charges in Swanton. The recent arrest of this minor left us no other choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Hunter, her younger son was at play in Swanton Memorial Park, when he encountered the white youths, one of whom was his age and attended school with him. That youth was accompanied by two older boys. The two older boys, said Hunter, encouraged the younger white boy to verbally Hunter\u2019s son by calling him the N-word before physically attacking him causing numerous injuries.<\/p>\n

After the attack, Hunter\u2019s son found his older brother who then located the white boys and defended his brother physically.<\/p>\n

Swanton police were called, said Hunter, and took statements only from the white children. As a result they went to the older brother\u2019s school the next day and arrested him in front of his schoolmates and did not bother to inform a parent.<\/p>\n

Later they brought the felony 4 assault charges against both of the Hunter boys.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told my children they should have walked away,\u201d said Hunter.<\/p>\n

During the Monday press conference, Hunter was accompanied by another African American Swanton resident, Anika Fields, who spoke of the long-time simmering racism within the community and particularly among the village police officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a resident and no stranger to the racism in Swanton,\u201d said Fields. \u201cThere\u2019s been no progress. There is still a lot of work to do, still a lot of African American families experiencing racism \u2026 a weaponizing of the police. We are asking for pressure to be applied \u2026 if it can happen here, it can happen anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

An early result of the arrest is that Hunter\u2019s older son was unable to finish the school year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a hate crime,\u201d said Fields last week. We spoke to Swanton city council but nothing has happened. This is not a plantation any more. Swanton has been successful in moving people out of the community with tactics like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunter\u2019s sons were in court for their July 5th<\/sup> appearance but the procedures were postponed until July 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Truth Staff On Wednesday, July 5, Kawana Hunter\u2019s two sons, aged 13 and 16, were due in court in the town of Wauseon to face felony 4 charges of assault. The boys, who are Black, were involved in an altercation with white boys on May 13 and only Hunter\u2019s sons were charged by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[183],"class_list":["post-8932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8934,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions\/8934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8932"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=8932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}