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Police motorcycles and a police car are seen before a press conference at the P
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olice Services Center on Wednesday, Mar. 9, 2016, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Armed with PowerPoints instead of guns, 24 Chattanooga police cadets took to a coffee house stage Friday to discuss Chattanooga s minority communities and how police can better interact with them.The presentations, which spanned four hours, were the culmination of 50 hours of community immersion traini
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ng that all future police officers - three classes of cadets - have gone through since 2014.Nearly three years into the community immersion program, some members of minority communities in Chattanooga say they are beginning to see a wider shift among officers toward respect, inclusion and proactive policing. Before, there were officers we knew we could trust, officers who were members of our community, allies on the force, but now it feels like it is part of the culture of the police department to embrace our community and see us as part of the community, said Marcus Ellsworth, president of Tennessee Valley Pride, a nonprofit organization focused on the region s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.This year, cadets spent that time with members of Chattanooga s LGBT, intellectually and developmentally disabled, black and Hispanic communities. The cadets interviewed members of the communities and hung out with them
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Nathan Mark Neighbors INTERACTIVE: Total solar eclipseA fourth person has been arrested and charged in connection with this week s discovery of a decomposing body in a wooded area of Gordon County, Ga., Sheriff Mitch Ralston said in a news release.The body investigators found is believed to be that of John Wesley Wood Jr., 22, of 373 Baker Road in Gordon County.Three people already had been charged in connection with the killing, and Stacie Charlene Ashworth, 20, of 227 Sequoyah Circle in Gordon County was arrested Tuesday evening at her home.Ashworth is charged with giving false statements and concealing a death. Sh
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e is jailed pending bond proceedings.Nathan Michael Mahan, Lelion L. Siskey and Nathan Mark Neighbors are charged with robbery and murder.Police said all the men were involved in Wood s slaying after he went missing on July 24.Investigators began looking for Wood after he was reported missing by his mother, Sherry Lynn Ainsworth, on July 28.Investigators learned from a neighbor that two strangers had shown up at Wood s apartment on July 2
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, who entered Wood s apartment, according to a Gordon County Sheriff s Office incident report.A separate witness told investigators foul play was involved in Wood s disappearance, but Gordon County Chief Deputy Robert Paris did not say what foul play may have been involved or how the witness knew about it.Ainsworth told a deputy that her son might have been invo