It’s still police brutality
Despite some blatant APD spin, body cam footage confirms horrific police brutality against Devon Whitmire Above: A screenshot from on of the body cam videos of Devon Whitmire’s May 13 arrest, showing officers pressing his throat into the pavement Blade editor David Forbes contributed to…
‘Clearly these folks weren’t littering’
Emails reveal Asheville city hall’s own waste manager contradicted their lies on bogus ‘felony littering’ charges Above: Art at the December 2021 Aston Park Build. Asheville police and government officials would later claim this was grounds for felony littering charges against 16 locals. Photo by…
Southside crowd halts murderous cops
Neighborhood outcry stops Asheville police’s brutalization of a Black local and a community mobilizes against police brutality Above: Asheville police piled on top of Devon Whitmire on May 13, with one officer pressing down on his throat with her elbow. The brutality only stopped due…
Marching for the missing and murdered
The MMIW crisis is at the intersection of racism, sexism and the ongoing violence against Indigenous communities. A glimpse at how one local is part of the efforts to fight back Photo from the MMIW NC Coalition Amber Merideth was raised here in Asheville with…
COVID WAVE ALERT — April 9
Asheville’s long covid wave continues to hit our communities. Here’s our regular alerts on what’s going on and what you can do to keep each other safe Graphic by Matilda Bliss You can support the Blade‘s covid alerts — and everything else we do —…
The mutual aid trials, week 1
The prosecution tries to portray protest as a crime, but their tactics fall flat as defendants head to separate trials Above: A banner displayed at the Aston Park Build protest and mutual aid project, December 2021. Photo by Veronica Coit Over a year after 16…
What the cameras showed
Over 12 hours of body cam footage from the Aston Park Christmas night crackdown shows police bigotry, casual cruelty and an open attack on the rights of journalists and protesters Above: Blade journalist Matilda Bliss is hauled into the detention wagon on Dec. 25, 2021.…
Kicked to the curb
Asheville’s housing authority tosses out a free food fridge run by a local community farm group. It’s a shocking, revealing incident Above: The free fridge at the Edington Center, stocked with fresh produce, before its removal. Photo courtesy of Southside Community Farms Blade editor David…
And not a drop to drink
Sweetheart deals for the wealthy pushed Asheville’s aging water system to the brink. Incompetence and arrogance shoved it over. This is the story of our city’s water crisis Above: A tap in Candler, one of the areas hardest hit by the water crisis, runs dry.…
Asheville Bladecast, Ep. 4 — The Most Corrupt Time of the Year
Graphic by Matilda Bliss Welcome back, readers and listeners. Our latest Asheville Bladecast episode, recorded just before Xmas, is a wide-ranging look at a bevy of recent stories with a very common theme: corruption. That’s right, we’ve got corrupt politicians, preachers, gentry gays, non-profit hatchetmen,…
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