
The internet is waking up to a story that happened on New Year’s Eve, which many are saying should have been covered by mainstream media but was not.
Krishana Polite, the former Chief of Staff for Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson is recovering after being shot while leaving a church after a New Year’s Eve service. Polite, who was leaving church with her mother on New Year’s Eve, was shot in the neck. Police believe she was hit by a bullet that came down from people celebrating the New Year by shooting bullets in the air. Robinson was high-profile during the most recent elections due to a bevy of scandals. Polite is the first Black woman in North Carolina to serve as chief-of-staff for a gubernatorial campaign.
UNC.org reports, “The incident hadn’t garnered much attention until a conservative advocacy group, The Frederick Douglass Foundation, issued a news release this week.
The group called on police to provide more information about their investigation. And its leader, Immanuel Jarvis, questioned why “this act of violence against a trailblazing Black woman has been met with a deafening silence” in local media.”
Polite was elevated to Robinson’s Chief-of-Staff after his staff quit following reports of the politician making racist comments on porn sites.
This story is developing.
Read more at WUNC.
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