The shabby treatment of U.S. Army Lt. Caron Nazario – first by town of Windsor police and later by a federal jury in Richmond – typifies the anticlimactic denouement of our moment of racial reckoning.
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Jhovan Galberth (front), the founder of the MOVE Foundation, led participants during a unity walk on the campus of Virginia State University in Ettrick in April 2021 in support of U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario.
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