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Police, Racism

Decried At 3rd

Rally In Region

Estimated 800 Fill Courthouse Lawn

Some 800 people filled the courthouse lawn for two and a half hours this afternoon to rally for justice after the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.  Throughout, the crowd cheered, chanted and waved signs. (Jim Kevin/AllOTSEGO.com)

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

"I am only here today because I had a Guardian Angel," Wes Lippitt of Fly Creek told today's gathering.

COOPERSTOWN – Ten years after he was chased by an armed classmate from Cooperstown Park on a sunny Good Friday and shot, Wesley Lippitt recounted the events this afternoon on the lawn of the Otsego County Courthouse:

“Racism is here,” he testified to an almost completely white crowd that organizers estimated at about 800 people, gathered to rally for justice after George Floyd’s death on being taking into police custody May 25 in Minneapolis. “It’s a thing.  It is time for all of us to open our eyes.”

Lippitt, then 16, was wounded when Anthony Pacherille, 15, later imprisoned for eight years, cornered him in the police station in the basement of Village Hall and fired.

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