The Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus will hold policy hearings in Erie on Monday. But on Sunday night, two of the members took time to meet with Erie pastors, community leaders and family over the Marchello Woodard tragedy. The pledged their help to get some answers.
They met at Abundant Life Ministries on Parade Street, not far from where Marchello Woodard, sitting in his car, was shot and killed the night of July 2, in an altercation with PA state parole officer making a compliance check. At the meeting, two members of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus, representatives of Erie’s African American Concerned Clergy, community leaders and members of the Woodard family.
The message from the pastors to the caucus was clear according to Pastor Ryan Gaines, President of the clergy group. “Silence is right now very detrimental. Silence is affecting the family, silence is affecting the community,” Pastor Gaines said…