PERFECT STORM: COVID on OPIOIDS Story of the Week of September 29, 2020 on zReportage.com

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Story of the Week of September 29, 2020 on zReportage.com : ‘PERFECT STORM: COVID on OPIOIDS’ zReportage #755 by ZUMA Press’s stellar passionate award winning photographer Czech DAVID TESINSKY, 30, who specializes in sub-cultures, social topics and tells the stories that need to be told for ZUMA Wire Service. David’s beautiful series of images, tackles the issues of what is is happening in British Columbia on the ongoing Opioid crisis during the COVID-19 Pandemic. While the pandemic is front and center in Canadian governance, there is another equal and growing crisis that has been killing people for years and appears to not be getting the attention it deserves and needs in British Columbia in 2020. Opioid overdoses, deaths and the addiction cases rising. Before the pandemic, drug use had already burned a deadly path across the country, with over 4,500 overdose deaths in B.C. since 2016, when it was declared a public health emergency. In 2020, 170 people died of drug overdose in the province, while COVID claimed 229 lives. BC has opened several temporary new overdose prevention sites. Drug users and advocates have been calling for community support instead of policing. Safe injection sites instead of prison sentences, and affordable housing instead of temporary shelters. The Pandemic is drawing a big spotlight on short comings of BC opioid governance. Without a long-term plan to address the opioid crisis issues, British Columbia could see escalating deaths, long after COIVID is hopefully a bad memory. As the opioid crisis remains mostly out of control, it’s now colliding with the COVID Pandemic. Welcome to: ‘PERFECT STORM: COVID on OPIOIDS’

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Breonna Taylor Protests In Louisville video credit © Amy Katz via ZUMA Wire

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September 26, 2020, Louisville, Kentucky, USA: Louisville BLM Protestors sought sanctuary for a third night at First Unitarian Church on 4th and York. But Police and Federal Agents tried to get a search warrant after a small group of people smashed windows at the local college and set a car ablaze. Shortly after the 9:00 pm Curfew, the dominant protestors, wanting to keep the protest peaceful, were so angry when about a dozen of the younger people started setting off firecrackers at the start of a march, that they cancelled their plans and went into the Church, and made a rule that anyone who went outside the Church could not come back in. Clergy from numerous churches joined together and once again negotiated with a LMPD Police Representative: this time Spokeswoman Jess Halliday. It was almost 4:00am when she called to say the Riot Police were changing shifts, and protestors could go home without fear of arrest. She promised they would be safe if they went home. Protestors organized ride-shares. 

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Car Fire during Breonna Taylor Protests In Louisville Video credit © Amy Katz/ZUMA Wire

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September 27, 2020, Louisville, Kentucky, USA: A small group of people in Louisville, KY broke away from the main protest group who were seeking refuge at the Unitarian Church late Saturday night and to the dismay of the other anti-police brutality rally goers, caused mayhem by setting off firecrackers and flares, including one launched into a car that caught fire and burst into flames in a Spaulding University parking lot. The Protestors would not let anyone into the Church who left because they didn’t want to be associated with any violence.

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ZUMA’s Juan Carlos Hernandez Featured on Toggenburg24 September 26th, 2020

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September 26, 2020, Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela: Venezuelan citizens, members of civil society, peacefully protested the deterioration of health centers, shortages of gasoline and domestic gas, deficiencies in public services such as water, electricity, and communications, and against Nicolas Maduro’s call for elections. In the last few days, violent protests have been registered in other cities of the country for the same reasons.

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Interview with Justice Coordinator Minister at the First Unitarian Church Video Credit © Amy Katz/ZUMA Wire

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September 24, 2020, Louisville, Kentucky, USA: Dawn Cooley, Justice Coordinator Minister at the First Unitarian Church speaks about protesters situation. 
Shortly after the 9:00pm Curfew: Police in full riot gear as they keep protestors shut up inside the First Unitarian Church, where they were guaranteed sanctuary by many clergy.
Several dozen demonstrators left the First Unitarian Church around 11 p.m. Thursday after a negotiated end to a tense confrontation. Police who had gathered there with riot gear also pulled back. 

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ZUMA’s Amy Katz Featured on WallStreetJournal.com September 24th, 2020

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September 24, 2020, Louisville, Kentucky, USA: Louisville, KY tonight shortly after the 9:00pm Curfew. First Unitarian church where the protestors were guaranteed sanctuary by many clergy, but then were virtually held hostage by the Police. Clery finally negotiated their safe exit and return home.

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ZUMA’s Karen Ducey, Amy Katz and Jill Connelly Featured on TheGuardian.com September 24th, 2020

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September 23, 2020, Seattle, Washington, USA: Protesters march through the street in remembrance of Breonna Taylor in Seattle, Washington, September 23, 2020. Today, police officers in Louisville who shot and killed Taylor last March during a no-knock warrant, were not indicted by a grand jury.

September 23, 2020, Washington Dc, Washington DC, USA: Hundreds of people take to the streets of Washington DC, marching from the Dept. of Justice to Black Lives Matter Plaza and beyond to protest the announcement that the Policemen who shot and killed Taylor were found not guilty by the Kentucky Grand Jury. Protestors from around the country gave passionate speech explaining systematic racism.
September 23, 2020, Los Angeles, California, USA: Protesters blocked a police car in downtown Los Angeles as hundreds marched to protest the decision in the Breonna Taylor case.

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Interview with BLM Protester, Louisville Video Credit © Amy Katz/ZUMA Wire

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September 24, 2020, Louisville, Kentucky, USA: Shortly after the 9:00pm Curfew: Police in full riot gear as they keep protestors shut up inside the First Unitarian Church, where they were guaranteed sanctuary by many clergy.
Several dozen demonstrators left the First Unitarian Church around 11 p.m. Thursday after a negotiated end to a tense confrontation. Police who had gathered there with riot gear also pulled back. 

Video Credit © Amy Katz / ZUMA Wire 

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Breonna Taylor Protests In Louisville Video Credit © Amy Katz/ZUMA Wire

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September 24, 2020, Louisville, Kentucky, USA: Shortly after the 9:00pm Curfew: Police in full riot gear as they keep protestors shut up inside the First Unitarian church, where they were guaranteed sanctuary by many clergy.
Several dozen demonstrators left the First Unitarian Church around 11 p.m. Thursday after a negotiated end to a tense confrontation. Police who had gathered there with riot gear also pulled back. 

Video Credit © Amy Katz/ZUMA Wire

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