You know i find it very strange that a racist man named Davey Crockett can go around here humiliating my race, posting things on Facebook that is very inappropriate and nothing is said. But when a black man like me, who wants equal and fairness in this city, who is fed up and tired of seeing his race disrespected puts on his gloves to fight back and delivers the blows it becomes a problem. Listen Crockett whatever you call yourself, when you address me in my inbox you address me as Mr. Freeman. You are sad and need to be put in your place because this is not the old days, As i told you i am a proud strong black man who will not let you or anyone else keep humiliating my race and every other considered minority race! We have a voice in this city, we pay taxes just like every other citizen, so we will be respected! You think that you are the only one in this city that can get personal info and blast people? You think that you are the only one who has the power? Well i got news for you, check your memo it will say NOT! Their are people even in your race who want to do what's right that are sick of this non sense that is going on behind the scenes and ready to stop it! Enough is enough, you are so racist that the first person that you can think of to blame this on is Yvette Daniel for Kennesaw City Council Post 2 when you have no clue of how many people in this city absolutely hate what you are doing. But i am the one that will not sit around and let this bullying take place! That woman has no clue of how many supporters she has.
What's sad is that you all want to point fingers and pin this on someone when you need to be looking in the mirror at yourself! Thanks for the inbox and confederate flag that you sent to crockett i know more than enough!
What's sad is that you all want to point fingers and pin this on someone when you need to be looking in the mirror at yourself! Thanks for the inbox and confederate flag that you sent to crockett i know more than enough!
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Perhaps our new Council member could start her term by paying back Mr. Patel the 100K she owes for her rent on the failed Pole Dancing Exercise Salon on Cobb Pky.
She also called her fellow Black councilman an Uncle Tom when writing as 'Catcher Freeman on her Facebook blog site.
The below article appeared Sunday 1/31/16 and has been appended below FYI. The author is a Black woman reporter for the MDJ.
Anyway here is the Sunday puff piece about her from the MDJ:
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Believe, belong and become: Kennesaw councilwoman ready to bring new perspective to the job
January 30, 2016
Kennesaw Councilwoman Yvette Daniel, one of the city’s first black council members, points to family photos citing her family as her support system, above, and sits on her sofa, below. / Staff-Jon Gargis
Councilwoman Yvette Daniel, one of Kennesaw's first black councilmembers, sits in her Kennesaw home on Monday, Jan. 25, 2016.
“Nothing that we have done up until now can prepare you for this,” Daniel said. “I have been hitting the ground. I want to say my first 45 days that I have plotted out have been two or three meetings a day sometimes.”
While Daniel said she has always made it her mission to be involved in the community, the former Augusta police officer didn’t have her sights set on elected office.
That changed when she became involved in Big Shanty Intermediate School’s PTA.
“I knew I was pretty good at getting people involved,” she said. “I’m mission oriented, so I pick a goal and I work toward it to get it accomplished.”
What Daniel realized was that Kennesaw had a lot of people who wanted to be involved. They just needed the right leaders, she said.
As a cancer survivor and single mom of four children, Daniel said she knows how it feels to face challenges.
“I know what it feels like to be an outsider just from being in the military and always moving to another place so I can identify with that person,” she said.
Daniel served in the U.S. Army before a fight with cancer caused her to leave the service and move to Kennesaw.
While she grew up in Augusta, Daniel’s father was also in the military and the family often moved. In 2007, she graduated from Central Michigan University with a master’s degree in public administration.
“I just have had to all my life be a person who can overcome and adapt, and I think that’s the diversity that I bring because I can pretty much work with anybody as a functional team for the greater good of Kennesaw.”
Diversity is what Daniel said she appreciates most about the City Council.
“Everyone on this council has a different energy that we bring in our own respects,” she said. “What you have in diversity, it brings upon perspective and empathy and those are the two biggest things that come out of diversity.”
The councilwoman described herself as analytical, concise and a researcher before voicing her opinion. As a black councilwoman, Daniel said she doesn’t take her unique role in the male-dominated council casually.
“I don’t take that lightly because I know that that brings a different energy to the room and it’s not negative,” she said. “Right now is where the different personalities and how we want to push Kennesaw forward is going to be very evident, I will say.”
MEANT TO BE HERE
With everything she does, Daniel said, the goal is to inspire others as she feels God put her here for a reason. Six years ago, doctors discovered a tumor in Daniel’s body.
“They set me up for a follow up appointment the next week and it had doubled in size. Went back the next week and it had tripled,” she said. “That was my retirement out of the military. We were actually planning for my funeral.”
After undergoing surgery, the cancer did not return.
With her family and community support, Daniel set forward to tackle her goals and ultimately ousted Councilman Tim Killingsworth in the November election by a vote of 936 to 895.
Kennesaw resident Jacqlyn Charles serves as Daniel’s community liaison and considers Daniel to be her personal First Lady Michelle Obama.
“She’s a phenomenal woman,” Charles said. “In her position, she’s opened up a lot of doors.”
Charles said Daniel has helped her with her own challenges as well as the endeavors of others in the community.
“It’s so important to reach back and help others to reach that level.”
In running for council, Daniel said she had just one sign, 500 business cards and what she calls “fumes and faith.”
“It was just me, my kids, and we went out and did it,” Daniel said. “I think this sent shock waves to people to let them know their voice does matter.”
Daniel said she hopes to stand as an example to others, saying, “… to be honest with you, it doesn’t matter what color you are. It doesn’t matter what race, what gender, what nationality you are. We have common things. We all want some of the same things.”
During her first term in office, Daniel said she hopes to encourage community engagement, bring business to Kennesaw and strengthen the partnership between the city, Kennesaw State University and the Cobb County School District.
Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal - Believe belong and become Kennesaw councilwoman ready to bring new perspective to the job
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Latrice Allen, Lewis Anthony Brown, *William Robert Chambers, Joshua Brandon
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Officer works to 'weed out' criminals
As a little girl, Yvette Daniel grew up in Barton Village -- a neighborhood she describes as "thuggish," where the drug dealers made it unsafe for kids to play in their front yards.
Today, she's Richmond County sheriff's Deputy Yvette Daniel and her job is to target Barton Village and weed out the criminals.
"I feel like I can help make a difference," Deputy Daniel, 25, said. "With the drug selling, you couldn't even drive through this neighborhood. It wasn't a safe environment for anybody -- in the house or outside. You couldn't walk through the neighborhood. You'd get jumped on, robbed or whatever."
Deputy Daniel is part of Augusta's Weed and Seed program, a nationwide, federally financed effort to target neighborhoods overrun by crime. Weed and Seed gives neighborhood residents the opportunity to help rid their streets of crime.
Residents must work with city organizations -- such as the Family Y and the sheriff's department -- to apply for a Weed and Seed grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. For neighborhood residents, becoming eligible for a grant means the government recognizes their problem with crime and their efforts to solve the problem.
"The ultimate goal is to weed out the criminal element and reseed to gain control and create community development," said Sandy Mercer, co-director of Augusta's Weed and Seed and a director of the Family Y. "The really important part is changing the mindset of the community. We're very pleased where Augusta and the Barton Chapel community have gotten themselves. It just brings people together working toward a common goal."
Barton Village is Augusta's only neighborhood recognized as a Weed and Seed community. However, other neighborhood associations are interested in the program because of Barton Village's successes, local directors said.
"It's harder to get recognized as a Weed and Seed site than to get the funds," said Lillian-Katharine Blanos, co-director for Augusta's Weed and Seed. "We're hoping to expand. We want to bring the strategy into other neighborhoods."
Barton Village received a $225,000 grant in October. The grant is available for three years, but directors must reapply each year to receive the money. The application for 1999 dollars is due Wednesday, although there is no guarantee the government will award the same amount of money.
Weed and Seed is divided into two parts.The weed side of the program is the police. The Richmond County Sheriff's Department assigned six deputies to Barton Village patrol duty. Three deputies are on the streets working 12-hour shifts daily. They switch the times around so residents won't know when to expect them.
Since the increased police patrols began in January, deputies have served 19 warrants and made 25 arrests, according to the last monthly police report. Many of those have been for traffic violations, and between 2 to 3 arrests have been for disorderly conduct.
Since 1996, police have targeted Barton Village for crime sweeps, said Captain Jim Griffin. Police sweeps are when a large number of patrol cars target and saturate an area to investigate any suspicious person -- by stopping and questioning them, running warrant and vehicle license plate checks, and sometimes setting up roadblocks, police said.
The crime suppression team and the narcotics division frequently sweeped Barton Village on weekends, sometimes working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Agency, probation officers and parole officers.
The sweeps were initiated partially because of numerous complaints from the residents about the amount of drug trafficking in their neighborhood, Captain Griffin said. Because of those sweeps, a number of arrests were made and warrants executed that involved street level drug activity.
The deputies now assigned to Barton Village volunteered for that beat. Deputy Daniel asked for the duty because she knows the violence firsthand and because she has family in the neighborhood.
"Our goal is to restore the peace," Deputy Daniel said. "By peace, I mean to get the neighborhood back to all the basics they've gotten away from -- getting rid of the loud music, getting rid of all the drugs we can. I'm working to put this community back together."
Her partners are sheriff's Deputies Troy A. Moses and Howard Hartung. Deputy Moses also grew up in Barton Village. Deputy Hartung lived in the neighborhood when he was in the Army, and his house was broken into three times.
The neighborhood they patrol isn't large. On almost every street, children ride their bikes or play basketball pick-up games. Streets are named for faraway exotic locales -- Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Berlin, Amsterdam, London. The houses are mostly one-story homes -- some with flowers decorating their yards, others with old mattresses and abandoned cars.
Many houses are next to patches of woods, where deputies say drug dealers sell their illegal wares and use flashlights to warn each other if they see police coming.
But now, the police step in and after 11 p.m. residents are encouraged to stay indoors. Residents are questioned if they are found wandering the streets or hanging out in large groups in driveways.
"In the daytime, we push the PR (public relations). At night, we take on a different aspect," Deputy Daniel said. "We ride as a group -- car-to-car, back-to-back. They get the message. We're out here."
The daytime aspect is called community policing.
"The concept ranges from officers living in the community to being out there during the patrol -- knocking on doors, getting to know the people on their beat," Ms. Mercer said. "There's a statement being said: `We're all in this together. We're not going be taken hostage by you criminals.' "
Each deputy carries a bag of lollipops in his patrol car for children they meet while patrolling. When they run across a game of kick ball, they get out and play. They hang out with kids at bus stops and chat with them about their schoolwork.
"Some of these kids have never shook a policeman's hand before," Deputy Moses said. "Their older brothers tell them police are bad. We give them a different idea. It motivates them."
But residents are expected to help themselves. The officers are trying to help them start a neighborhood watch program.
"We're trying to get the community involved with their own neighborhood," Deputy Daniel said. "Once the police department is gone, they still need to function on their own. We don't want to come in and take over. We want them to run their own neighborhood."
Residents said they have noticed the police presence.
"It's made a big impact," said Tomikia Mack, 20, who is the mother of two boys. "It used to be drug dealers standing on the corners. A lot of killing. You can walk down the street now. When the cops come around, everybody disappears."
Michael Luke Jr., 11, said he's glad police are around and he's only scared "half the time."
"All you'd hear is gunfire and gun smoke," Michael said. "Parents are scared to let their kids come out. I've seen people running through the yards with guns."
Rene Williams, 13, and her sister Ericka, 15, said their mother won't let them play in their front yard sometimes because of neighborhood crime.
"Sometimes you feel scared," Ericka said. "You never know if a group of guys or a group of girls are going to rape you or mug you or shoot you."
The seed side of Weed and Seed is the community effort to curb crime. Barton Village's neighborhood association has joined with organizations like the Family Y and Clean and Beautiful to design a variety of programs.
The programs include sexual abstinence classes for teens, finding jobs for adults, high-school equivalency classes, day-care and tutoring for teen mothers, and after-school programs in schools -- with art, drama and field trips -- so kids don't come home to empty houses.
"The community has to take the concept and make it happen," Ms. Mercer said. "We have a high level of community support and participation."
The Richmond County Housing Authority donated a home on London Street to be used as a central office for Weed and Seed. The location will be called Safe Haven -- a place residents can go if they need any type of help. Another Safe Haven was set up at Barton Chapel Elementary School, where many of the after-school programs and classes are held.
Coordinators have also begun a drug hotline, to report any type of drug activity in the Barton Village neighborhood. Callers are asked to give exact descriptions of the perpetrators and the calls are completely anonymous. Police will then be dispatched to the scene.
"There is no fear of retaliation -- we want to stress that," Ms. Blanos said.
The hotline phone number is (706) 828-3784.
Those involved with Weed and Seed are determined to make a difference.
"We made some promises when we first came out and now we have to prove it," Deputy Daniel said. "Everybody just sells them a bunch of dreams. Once we've given them something they can touch and feel, it's more real to them. They're ready to see something. It's been a long time coming. Now they're ready for results.
