Two Black Monona men are calling for police reform after police officers entered a home on Tuesday, guns drawn, and handcuffed one of them before realizing he was staying there.
“I was definitely afraid for my life,” said Keonte Furdge, a 2016 graduate of Monona Grove High School.
Furdge, who was recently laid off due to the COVID pandemic, had been staying for a few days with his good friend and teammate, former University of Iowa running back Toren Young, in a house owned by a Monona Grove assistant football coach. The house was the coach’s mother’s home until she passed away recently.
Furdge said he and Young and several of their teammates knew the neighborhood because they used to help his coach’s mother around the house and yard….
“It could have been Toren, not just me,” Furdge said. “It kills us because we did a lot for that community. They only care for us when we play sports for them. We’re their high school heroes. We give them trophies, we give them rings. Give them conference (championships). Then after we’re done, they give us nothing.”
“Well,” he added, “racism….”
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