(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Washington 3, Baltimore 0
Texas 7, Philadelphia 0
Houston 8, NY Mets 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 5, Detroit 4
Tampa Bay 5, NY Yankees 4
Cleveland 6, Minnesota 5
Chi White Sox 7, Toronto 6
Kansas City 12, LA Angels 11
Seattle 8, Oakland 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Miami 9, Colorado 8
LA Dodgers 8, Cincinnati 2
Pittsburgh 7, Chi Cubs 1
San Francisco 12, Atlanta 10
St. Louis 6, Milwaukee 2
San Diego 3, Arizona 2
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Atlanta 80, Dallas 75
Chicago 92, Las Vegas 82
Minnesota 84, Phoenix 71
Los Angeles 61, Washington 51 (In progress)
(MIAMI) — The Miami Heat partnered with the City of Miami Police Department and nonprofit organization Dedication to Community (D2C) in April to try and mend the relationship between the Miami community, and their officers.
The program’s training includes workshops with instruction and discussions between community members and police officers led by founder and CEO of D2C M. Quentin Williams and Co-facilitator Kim Varner Sr. With individual, one-on-one, and large group exercises, and solutions-based conversations the program aims to create a safe space for both parties to openly communicate and relate to one another.
ABC News contributor Darrell Blocker, retired CIA operative and current board member of Peace 4 Kids, a foster youth advocacy group, says that the work of bridging the gap between the community and police officers through programs like this is a grassroots effort.
“Trust was not lost overnight,” Blocker told ABC News. “It all boils down to opening up channels of communication.”
Williams, a federal prosecutor and former FBI agent, is the common thread between communities and law enforcement. He grew up in what he called a challenging time in Yonkers, New York, during the late 80s when the crack epidemic was already ripping through New York City.
“I didn’t want to be a cop,” Williams said to ABC News. “I saw my friends being taken to jail by cops.”
Ultimately, it was that “disparity and treatment” that drove Williams to later become an FBI agent. Even as an officer, he says his badge did not shield him from the discriminatory experience of being profiled by a fellow officer. In the summer of 1994, he says he found himself “in the back of a cruiser being arrested for fitting the description of somebody else earlier in the day.”
Williams says that experience coupled with his background have informed the way in which he approaches the training of law enforcement.
“I’m not just talking about cops and community, I’m talking about human beings,” Williams said. “Dignity costs nothing to give.”
Officers like Tim Shaw, chief of police in Stamford, Connecticut, say they connected with Williams’ training. Shaw met Williams at the Fairfield County police chiefs quarterly meeting back in 2020. Following a mandate issued by the state of Connecticut requiring all officers to undergo implicit bias training, Shaw called on Williams to come down to train all 275 of his officers. For him, Williams and his storytelling represented “the right person in the room that can relate to the officers and to his staff.”
Previously, officers and community members would participate in training separately, but the program has since evolved to encourage engagement between both groups. According to Williams, the more comprehensive training stresses compliance of the community and professionalism of officers.
“Not every officer is as open to this topic as others,” Shaw said to ABC News.
Studies have long revealed the disproportionately unfair treatment of Black and Brown people by law enforcement in the United States that has been going on for centuries.
“We are utilizing our very unique position in our own city to act as a bridge between the community and the police,” Lorrie-Ann Diaz, Vice President of Business Communications and Social Responsibility for Miami Heat, told ABC News.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Boston 6, St. Louis 4
Arizona 7, Minnesota 1
Cleveland 5, LA Dodgers 3
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltimore 2, Tampa Bay 1
Detroit 7, Texas 3
Toronto 10, NY Yankees 9
Oakland 4, Kansas City 0
LA Angels 4, Seattle 0
Houston 4, Chi White Sox 3
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Washington 9, Philadelphia 3
Pittsburgh 4, San Francisco 3
Miami 6, NY Mets 2
Milwaukee 6, Cincinnati 3
Atlanta 6, Chi Cubs 0
Colorado 8, San Diego 3
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Seattle 81, New York 72
Washington 71, Connecticut 63
Indiana 89, Chicago 87
Dallas 92, Los Angeles 82
Las Vegas 96, Minnesota 95
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
Atlanta 2, Miami 0
New England 2, Minnesota 1
Colorado 1 New York City FC 1 (Tie)
Sporting Kansas City 2, Nashville 1
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Friday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Final Boston 6 St. Louis 5
Final Arizona 7 Minnesota 2
Final Cleveland 2 L.A. Dodgers 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Baltimore 1 Tampa Bay 0
Final Texas 7 Detroit 0
Final N.Y. Yankees 12 Toronto 3
Final Houston 13 Chicago White Sox 3
Final Seattle 8 L.A. Angels 1
Final Kansas City 5 Oakland 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Philadelphia 5 Washington 3
Final Chicago Cubs 1 Atlanta 0
Final Milwaukee 5 Cincinnati 4
Final San Francisco 2 Pittsburgh 0
Final N.Y. Mets 10 Miami 4
Final Philadelphia 8 Washington 7
Final Colorado 10 San Diego 4
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Connecticut 82 Seattle 71
Final Dallas 93 Phoenix 88
Final OT Chicago 106 Atlanta 100
(BOSTON) — The Golden State Warriors defeated the Boston Celtics in Game 6 of the NBA Finals Thursday night to take home their first championship title since 2018.
The 103-90 win over Boston marked Golden State’s seventh championship as a franchise and fourth title in eight years.
Warriors point guard Stephen Curry led the team with 34 points and was named the NBA Finals MVP for the first time in his career.
(NEW YORK) — For over a decade, Deborah Marion has been fighting for answers in the murder of her son, former NBA player Lorenzen Wright, who was found shot in 2010.
“With Lorenzen, I’d be talking to his picture and sometimes his picture could look at me a certain way like it’s really him… He was a momma’s boy. Simple as that,” she said. “He would still be a momma’s boy if he was here now.”
At the time of his death, Wright had retired from the league in 2009 where he had earned an estimated $55 million over the course of 13 seasons in the NBA.
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Wright was missing for nine days before his remains were found in a wooded area off a desolate road in southeast Memphis, Tennessee that he used to take as a shortcut to his mother’s house. His body had gunshot wounds.
Marion said she knew something was wrong when Wright didn’t show up to his sister’s baby shower.
“He was supposed to have been coming to the baby shower. I kept calling him all day and he didn’t answer the phone,” said Marion.
At the time, Sherra Wright Robinson claimed to investigators that Wright was connected to drugs. She claimed that she had last seen Wright drive off with an unknown man carrying a box of drugs.
Investigators looked into Wright Robinson’s claims, but Wright was never implicated in any criminal activity. The criminal case turned cold for the next seven years.
Marion remained a driving force behind the investigation and said she would call the police station everyday to ask if they had found any new information.
“I knew God was on my side,” Marion said. “I wasn’t gonna never get tired until I die ’cause somebody had to pay for killing my child.”
Five years after the murder, Wright Robinson published a novel in 2015 titled Mr. Tell Me Anything. The supposedly fictitious story centered around the life of a woman who marries an abusive and unfaithful basketball player. She later claimed in an interview that the book was based on her real life.
Wright’s supporters allege the book is fiction.
“I just don’t believe it. I think that is purely fiction,” said Bill Adkins, a close friend of Wright.
In 2017, a huge break came in the investigation. One of the guns used to kill Wright was found in a lake about 45 minutes away from Wright’s former home.
In court, prosecutors said Wright Robinson’s cousin, Jimmie Martin, started talking to investigators about Wright’s murder while awaiting sentencing in an unrelated murder case that had occurred three years prior to Wright’s death.
Martin had told prosecutors that he had participated in a failed plan to kill Wright with Wright Robinson and another man named Billy Ray Turner, who was a landscaper and attended the same church as Wright Robinson.
According to prosecutors, Martin claimed that after Wright was murdered, Wright Robinson and Turner confessed to him that they did it and needed his help in disposing the evidence, which is how he knew the location of the murder weapon.
Martin has not been charged in connection with Wright’s death.
Investigators began monitoring Wright Robinson’s and Turner’s cell phones and alleged that they had learned incriminating information. Both Wright Robinson and Turner were arrested and charged in December 2017.
Turner pleaded not guilty on first-degree murder charges.
Wright Robinson initially pleaded not guilty but later agreed to a plea deal on July 25, 2019, and pleaded guilty to the facilitation of first-degree murder. In exchange, prosecutors lessened her sentence to 30 years in prison. She will be eligible for parole as early as May 2027.
“She knows she was fittin’ to go down, down, down. Way down. She wasn’t gonna get no few years. She was gonna get some lifetime [if the case went to trial],” said Marion.
Wright Robinson’s plea deal was announced in court and the judge gave Marion the chance to address her son’s ex-wife. Instead of expressing outrage, Marion focused on moving forward with her six grandchildren who are said to be standing by their mother.
“Ms. Sherra, I want to thank you for giving me my grandchildren, that’s what I want to thank you for,” she said in court. “But I want you to call them, [and say], ‘No it’s OK to talk to grandma, grandma still loves you.’ That’s all I want is my grandkids.”
Turner, whose trial was delayed two years, in part because of the global pandemic, finally faced his day in court in March of 2022.
Turner chose not to testify.
After one week of testimony, the jury deliberated for a little over two hours, finding Turner guilty on all three counts: first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
Under Tennessee Law, the judge immediately sentenced Turner to life in prison. Marion, who was in the courtroom that day, said that after 12 years, she felt like “she can sleep now. All night now.”
“Lorenzen’s spirit been with me the whole time,” she said. “He can lay down like everybody else and just rest. I say ‘Get you some rest baby. We got this. They gone.’”
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Kansas City 3, San Francisco 2
Cleveland 7, Colorado 5
LA Dodgers 4, LA Angels 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chi White Sox 13, Detroit 0
Houston 9, Texas 2
Minnesota 5, Seattle 0
Toronto 7, Baltimore 6
NY Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 3
Boston 10, Oakland 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 3, Miami 1
Arizona 7, Cincinnati 4
Milwaukee 10, NY Mets 2
Atlanta 8, Washington 2
Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 4
San Diego 19, Chi Cubs 5
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Colorado 4, Tampa Bay 3 (OT) (Colorado leads 1-0)
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Las Vegas 92, Dallas 84
Phoenix 93, Indiana 80
Connecticut 105, Atlanta 92
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
Orlando City 1, New England 1 (Tie)
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Cleveland 4, Colorado 3
San Francisco 4, Kansas City 2
L.A. Dodgers 2 L.A. Angels 0
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 6, Oakland 1
NY Yankees 2, Tampa Bay 0
Baltimore 6, Toronto 5
Chi White Sox 5, Detroit 1
Houston 4, Texas 3
Seattle 5, Minnesota 0
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 1
NY Mets 4, Milwaukee 0
Atlanta 10, Washington 4
St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 1
Miami 11, Philadelphia 9
San Diego 12, Chicago Cubs 5
Cincinnati 5, Arizona 3 (12)
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Washington 83, Phoenix 65
Seattle 81, Minnesota 79
