On May 19th, a LRSD Central High employee sent us a video of a white teacher bodyslamming a Black female student. Based on information provided to us, two Black female student were fighting and two teachers intervened. In the video one teacher can be observed to be restraining one of the girls and the other teacher grabs the other girl, lifts her up into the air and slams her onto the floor. Then he can be seen standing over her as a LRPD School Resource Officer ("SRO") arrives. After we posted the video on social media outlets, another Central High employee contacted us and gave us his name - Jason McCann and that the student he attacked was a 9th grader. They also told us that Nancy Rousseau, the long in the tooth Central High Principal recently forced into retirement, was trying to keep the incident secret. That teacher also told us that McCann had been involved in another student violence incident recently. McCann attacked a Black male student over the student's us...
NLR Mayor Hartwick likes to squeeze teenage girls "fat rolls" North Little Rock Mayor Terry Hartwick is no stranger to scandals. When he was mayor back in the 1980's he was fooling around with a teenager that was working as an intern and spent hundreds of dollars on telephone calls talking to her when she was a student as the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His entanglement with that UAF student, Gina Fortenberry, caused his wife at the time to divorce him in 1987. Hartwick was almost 40 at that time. That scandal and another involving payoffs caused his trouncing defeat in the 1988 NLR mayoral election to Patrick Henry Hays (Hays received 63% of the votes to Hartwick's 37%). Here's the tea about Hartwick's entanglement with that teenage summer intern (from a interview in October 2000 of John Woodruff, who had been a reporter with the Arkansas Gazette that covered news in NLR). Let's jump back to the present time. The North Little Rock Chamber of ...