4/3/2023 0 Comments Isaiah rashad twitter photoRashad also works with the Jamestown human rights commission to help with the homeless alongside the mayor. This was when he began to write and speak about his experiences and what he knew. While teaching, Rashad decided he wanted to do something more and returned to NY to be a professor, and then eventually decided he wanted to be a speaker. Rashad became a state trooper in Colorado and eventually after ending up in the hospital multiple times and losing many of his partners, left the force to teach cadets. He moved to Colorado and became a deputy sheriff in Denver on the gang unit. Rashad spent years as a federal police officer and a sheriff. It was then that Rashad heard about police in Minneapolis that were hiring, so he drove down there and was finally hired as a cop. They only do this test every three or four years, so that was my last chance. Only, I came back and missed the test to be a part of the force by a few days. I enlisted in the Army and did my four years there and then came back to New York to try again. “I was laughed at and told I needed experience. “I tried to apply for the state police when I was 17,” Rashad said. It was then that he tried to find his way out. He spent time in multiple foster homes, and for a while growing up had times when he was on the street and homeless. Rashad was a member of a gang from the age of seven to 12 years old. “So, I wrote what I knew and published it, and that’s how I started my career.” “Something in me said to write,” Rashad said. It was in 2007, during a time in his life where he had lost everything after his small business went down, and Rashad found himself homeless and trying to figure out his life, that in a moment of desperation where he was even contemplating suicide, that he began to write. He wrote his first book in 2007 after writing for a few small papers before that. Rashad originally grew up in Buffalo but moved to Jamestown later in life.
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