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Meeting: Offi cers advise fi lming encounters<br />
Continued from page 1A<br />
cording to the woman, repeatedly<br />
and roughly questioned<br />
by a Sheriff’s<br />
deputy, required to show<br />
their identifi cation, and detained<br />
while the plates on<br />
their car were run through<br />
the system.<br />
According to Powhatan<br />
Undersheriff Chris De-<br />
Hart, the deputy was merely<br />
doing his job. There had<br />
been recent break-ins in<br />
the neighborhood, the<br />
three canvassers did not<br />
live in the neighborhood,<br />
and they were driving a car<br />
not known in the area.<br />
These, DeHart said, were<br />
likely the reasons that they<br />
were stopped and questioned.<br />
That they were<br />
black, he said, had nothing<br />
to do with it.<br />
And that they were canvassing?<br />
The deputy<br />
couldn’t know if that was<br />
the truth or a lie. “People<br />
come up with all sort of<br />
ruses to go door-to-door,”<br />
DeHart said. “A lot of it<br />
targets the elderly. While<br />
one person’s at the front<br />
door, the other can be<br />
around back robbing you<br />
blind.”<br />
Sgt. Wayne Holland,<br />
who has been a member of<br />
the Virginia State Police<br />
force for forty years, said<br />
that in his agency an offi -<br />
cer would be fi red if he or<br />
she were known to discriminate<br />
based on race.<br />
One thing to note, however,<br />
is that both DeHart<br />
and Holland are white. The<br />
SECOND ANTIOCH<br />
BAPTIST CHURCH<br />
1059 Dorset Road<br />
Powhatan, VA 23139<br />
Reverend Robert Easter,<br />
Interim Pastor<br />
Praise and Worship Service<br />
Sunday School 9:45-10:45<br />
Sunday Morning Worship<br />
will begin at 11:00 a.m.<br />
GREENBRIER<br />
BAPTIST CHURCH<br />
Love, fellowship, prayer, doctrine, praise,<br />
gladness, singleness of heart and diversity<br />
Pastor: Herbert Townes, Interim<br />
Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.<br />
Worship Service: 11:00 a.m.<br />
Bible Study Every Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.<br />
4731 Bell Road,<br />
Powhatan, VA 23139<br />
804-<strong>598</strong>-5491 or 804-<strong>598</strong>-3366<br />
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.<br />
WorshipService11:00a.m.<br />
Rev. Michael K. Edwards, Pastor<br />
Ed Alexander, Minister of Music<br />
Galen Ware, Interim Minister to Youth<br />
Sheri Jordan, Minister to Children<br />
MOUNT ZION<br />
BAPTIST CHURCH<br />
2591 Ridge Road<br />
Powhatan, Virginia 23139<br />
804-<strong>598</strong>-2051<br />
Rev. Bryan Stevens, Pastor<br />
11 a.m. – Worship Service<br />
9a.m.–ChurchSchool<br />
Wednesday Bible Study<br />
10a.m.&7p.m.<br />
evening’s other two speakers<br />
– Walter Almond of the<br />
Richmond City Police and<br />
Alton Baskerville, retired<br />
warden of Powhatan Correctional<br />
Center – are<br />
black. This made their perspectives<br />
on the matter a<br />
little bit different.<br />
While both Almond<br />
and Baskerville remain, of<br />
course, fi rmly on the side<br />
of law enforcement, they<br />
can both recall plenty of<br />
incidents where they felt<br />
themselves unnecessarily<br />
watched, stopped, or questioned.<br />
Baskerville recalled<br />
driving his car – a Lexus –<br />
to Richmond’s Church Hill<br />
neighborhood a few years<br />
ago to visit his grandmother.<br />
He was stopped by a<br />
police offi cer. He wasn’t<br />
speeding, his registration<br />
was up-to-date – the only<br />
thing he was guilty of, he<br />
said, was being a black<br />
man in a nice car in an area<br />
known to have a lot of drug<br />
activity. The cop, he said,<br />
likely assumed that he<br />
must be a drug dealer.<br />
Still, Baskerville said,<br />
he did the right thing when<br />
the cop stopped him. He<br />
complied. He was polite.<br />
He answered the offi cer’s<br />
questions, showed the offi<br />
cer his license and registration,<br />
waited patiently<br />
for the policeman to see<br />
for himself that there was<br />
nothing illegal going on<br />
and then he went on his<br />
merry way.<br />
In fact, if there were<br />
any main takeaway point<br />
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Sunday School - 10:00 AM<br />
Morning Worship - 11:00 AM<br />
Wednesday Prayer - 6:30 PM<br />
Bible Study - 7:00 PM<br />
Young Adult & Teen Bible Study<br />
Sunday at 5:00 PM<br />
Rev. Matthew McCauley, Pastor<br />
Holly Hills<br />
Baptist Church<br />
www.HollyHillsBaptist.org<br />
(Independent Bible Believing)<br />
Randy Blackwell, Pastor<br />
Sunday School - 10:00 a.m.<br />
Sunday Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.<br />
Sunday Night - Service 7 p.m.<br />
Wednesday Prayer - 7:30 p.m.<br />
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Wednesday Evenings starting at 5:45 PM<br />
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AdultChoirPractice7:30p.m.<br />
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Muddy Creek<br />
Baptist Church<br />
Sunday School - 9:45 am<br />
Worship - 11 am<br />
Wednesday Bible Study &<br />
Prayer Service- 7:00 pm<br />
Pastor David N. Peppler, Sr.<br />
3470 Trenholm Road<br />
www.muddycreek.org<br />
375-9212<br />
from the forum it would be<br />
this: Comply, comply,<br />
comply.<br />
Be polite, answer questions,<br />
do what the offi cer<br />
asks.<br />
But what if you feel<br />
misconduct is going on?<br />
several audience members<br />
asked. Can you fi lm it on<br />
your camera phone?<br />
Should you call an attorney<br />
immediately? Can you<br />
fi le a grievance?<br />
The offi cers all agreed<br />
that you can, and should,<br />
fi lm a police encounter in<br />
which you feel you are being<br />
mistreated. However,<br />
Almond said that probably<br />
should be discreet.<br />
Also, the offi cers said,<br />
don’t call a lawyer at the<br />
scene. For one thing, it’s<br />
highly unlikely one will<br />
show up immediately .<br />
Comply at the time of your<br />
detainment or arrest, they<br />
said, and then – if you feel<br />
it’s necessary – fi le an offi<br />
cial complaint and look<br />
for an attorney.<br />
Rovenia Vaughan, President<br />
of the Powhatan<br />
Chapter NAACP, said she<br />
was pleased with the forum<br />
and hopes to hold another<br />
in the spring. She<br />
said she would like to encourage<br />
more young people<br />
to come, as they are the<br />
ones who could stand to<br />
benefi t the most from such<br />
an event.<br />
“They just get panicky<br />
when they see a police offi<br />
cer,” she said. “They need<br />
to know these folks are out<br />
to protect them.”<br />
<br />
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Hollywood<br />
Baptist Church<br />
“A Church Where Love<br />
Never Fails!”<br />
Pastor Otis B. Lockhart, Jr.<br />
<strong>598</strong>-2763<br />
Sunday School at 9:30 am<br />
Morning Service at 11:00 am<br />
Bible Study Every Wednesday Night<br />
at 6:30 pm<br />
3964 Old Buckingham Road<br />
St. James Baptist Church<br />
Powhatan, Virginia<br />
Located on Lee's Landing Road<br />
Office: 804-<strong>598</strong>-2667<br />
Worship Service, Each Sunday, 11:00 a.m.<br />
Sunday School, Each Sunday, 9:30 a.m.<br />
Prayer and Bible Study, Each Thursday, 7:30 p.m.<br />
Reverend Lawrence A. Wilson, Sr., Pastor<br />
804-379-3539<br />
5680 Cartersville Road Powhatan, Virginia 23139<br />
Pastor Gregory L. Beechaum Sr.<br />
"The church where Jesus is Alive"<br />
9:45 a.m.-----------Sunday School<br />
10:45 a.m.----------Prayer & Praise<br />
11:00 a.m.----------Sunday Morning Worship<br />
Kid's Church on 1st, 3rd & 4th Sundays<br />
7:30 p.m.-----------Tuesday Night Worship & Bible Study<br />
804-375-9404<br />
FIRST ANTIOCH<br />
BAPTIST CHURCH<br />
3920 MAIDENS RD., POWHATAN<br />
Pastor Vera Rhyne<br />
804-<strong>598</strong>-2301<br />
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.<br />
Sunday Morning Service<br />
11:00 a.m.<br />
Wednesday Mid Day<br />
Bible Study 11:30 a.m.<br />
Evening Bible Study 7:00 p.m.<br />
Court: Man given six months for marijuana<br />
Continued from page 1A<br />
2010 of felony possession<br />
of marijuana with<br />
intent to distribute.<br />
Drinkard pleaded<br />
not guilty to the probation<br />
violation, stating<br />
that he’d enrolled in a<br />
drug treatment program,<br />
but hadn’t been<br />
able to attend regularly<br />
because he was working<br />
three jobs – landscaping,<br />
brick masonry,<br />
and dishwashing. “I<br />
struggle with an addiction<br />
to marijuana,” he<br />
told the court. “It may<br />
not be physical, but I<br />
just can’t keep my<br />
hands off the stuff.”<br />
Beasley told<br />
Drinkard that if he had<br />
the time to call his drug<br />
dealer he ought to have<br />
had the time to call his<br />
probation offi cer. “Mr.<br />
Drinkard thinks he can<br />
go through life conning<br />
everybody,” Beasley<br />
said. “He needs to go<br />
back to prison.”<br />
Woman pleads<br />
guilty to cashing<br />
phony check<br />
A 28-year-old Charlotte,<br />
N.C. woman, Isis<br />
Wylie, pleaded guilty<br />
in Powhatan Circuit<br />
Court on Friday to<br />
grand larceny.<br />
2095 Red Lane Road<br />
1/2 mile off Rt. 60 on Red Lane Road<br />
804-<strong>598</strong>-2455<br />
www.redlanebaptist.org<br />
Contemporary Service 8:30 a.m.<br />
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.<br />
Traditional Service 11:10 a.m.<br />
Wed. Night Classes for all ages 6:30-7:30<br />
Rev. Bill Gohmert, Pastor<br />
3619 Huguenot Trail<br />
Powhatan, Virginia 23139<br />
804-403-3070<br />
www.finecreekbaptist.org<br />
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.<br />
Worship Service: 11:00 a.m.<br />
Traditional<br />
Rev.DavidA.Simpson,Pastor<br />
NewHopeFellowship<br />
Foursquare Church<br />
2804NewDorsetCircle<br />
Powhatan<br />
804-592-8564 Matt Ridenhour, Pastor<br />
Sunday Service 10:30 A.M.<br />
Youth Group on Wednesdays 7:00 P.M.<br />
Bible Study/Worship Service:<br />
1stand3rdWednesday7:00P.M.<br />
Life groups 2nd and 4th Wednesday 7:00 P.M.<br />
Wylie admitted to<br />
cashing a fraudulent<br />
check at Powhatan’s<br />
Essex Bank in the<br />
amount of $1,984.43.<br />
After the bank gave her<br />
the money, an employee<br />
became suspicious<br />
of the check, which<br />
came from the Aylett,<br />
Va.-based company<br />
Tennis Courts, Inc.<br />
When the bank called<br />
the company, they were<br />
told that no check had<br />
been issued to Wylie<br />
and that the company<br />
had no affi liation with<br />
her. Wylie will re-appear<br />
in court October 9<br />
for a pre-sentence report.<br />
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Praise&Worship8:30am<br />
Sunday School 9:45 am<br />
Worship 11:00 am<br />
Children’s Worship 11:00 am<br />
Prayer Service - Wednesday 6:30 pm<br />
<strong>598</strong>-3481<br />
975DorsetRoad<br />
FourmilessouthofFlatRock<br />
www.gracelandbaptistchurch.org<br />
OLD POWHATAN<br />
BAPTIST CHURCH<br />
Brad Russell, Pastor<br />
<strong>598</strong>-4241<br />
First Worship 8:30 am<br />
Bible Study for all ages 9:45 am<br />
Second Worship 11:00 am<br />
Wed. Family Ministry 6:30 pm<br />
2202 Old Church Road<br />
www.powhatanbaptist.org