Where the River Frowns

12/03/2025

Today was the funeral of Everett Nunn. Our hearts hang heavy with his family and friends. We ask the wider community of Evansville to take this day to grieve. And tomorrow, we must keep fighting and keep remembering.

“It is not enough to mourn the dead. What we must do is oppose and immobilize the power that put them to death.” -James Baldwin

12/01/2025

We can never stop saying his name. We must demand that nobody ever again goes through what Everett and his family went through. Across Indiana and across this nation we must join together and demand that the state stop murdering our loved ones and demand an end for the trigger happy culture of policing that has been normalized in so many communities across the U.S.. We live in a country where police kill more every year than the next 19 countries combined. We live in a nation with the highest incarceration rate in the world, we lock up more people than dictatorships abroad. Here in Evansville, $49 million of our $140.1 million budget goes to police. We must change that. If America is really about liberty, equality, and justice for all, then we must lead in those values and hold those in power to those standards. We can't police ourselves out of social problems, we must invest in fixing disparities and social problems in our communities.

11/30/2025

11/30/2025

More pictures from last night's protest of the city's Christmas tree lighting ceremony moments before community members stormed Civic Center Plaza and shut it down for Everett. People chanted "We Want Justice" and "Say His Name -- Everett Nunn". Everett's son Dredon Nunn led a heartfelt speech as dozens of people held hands around the city Christmas tree. Some members of the crowd put mementos, signs, and ornaments on the tree to remember Everett.

If you haven't already, contact the mayor at (812) 436-4962 ([email protected]) and police internal affairs at (812) 436-7890 ([email protected]) and demand a third party investigation and that the officer who killed Everett be fired and prosecuted. Its important we keep putting pressure on those in power. We know how the "thin blue line" operates; that the police protect their own and can't be trusted to investigate themselves. They'll gladly send people of color and poor people in this city to prison over the most minor of infractions, but will let their own get away with murder. We must make it clear, we do not feel safe with officer Nicholas Helfert on the force, and we will not rest until he his off the force and held legally accountable for his actions. They are "tough on crime" until its one of their own.

11/30/2025

Community members came out in the pouring rain to shut down the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the Civic Center to demand justice and accountability for Everett Nunn. It was a beautiful night of mourning and justified rage as people across the city from all walks of life joined together to stand up for one of our own. Its unconscionable for the city to go on with business as usual while our community is hurting so deeply.

11/29/2025

This evening from 6:30pm-8pm
Bring signs & candles for Everett Nunn to the Civic Center Christmas Tree lighting
1 NW Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Evansville IN 47708

11/27/2025

We’re asking for support in seeking justice for Everett Nunn, who was wrongfu… Dredon Nunn needs your support for Fight for Everett Nunn: Your Support Matters

11/27/2025

This is the EPD cop who killed Everett Nunn; Nicholas Helfert, formerly of the Vanderburgh County Sheriffs Office. Always trigger-happy, Helfert was awarded the "top gun" award out of 162 recruits at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy for marksmanship in 2019 and works a side gig at a local gun shop as a shooting instructor.

11/26/2025

Their ages range from 2 to 62, and they come from all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. These are just some of the people killed by the negligence of the Evansville Police and the Vanderburgh County Sheriff over the last decade. Some were gunned down by officers, some died from inhumane conditions in the Vanderburgh County Jail, some were bystanders treated as collateral in wreckless high speed chases, some were people going through mental health crisis in a city unequipped to offer assistance, one was even an officer himself killed by his co-workers during training.

Everett Nunn is but the latest community member to die in avoidable circumstances in a city and county that is rife with judicial and legislative hand wringing when it comes to addressing officer violence and carceral neglect.

The Evansville Police Department has an 86% higher rate of violence than the national average and used more force per arrest than 93% of departments across the United States. The strategy of city leaders has been to further militarize the police force, rather than address these disparities.

Likewise, the incarceration rate at the Vanderburgh County Jail was 422 per 100,000 people, over double the national average jail incarceration rate of 198 per 100,000. The jail is chronically overcrowded and chronically understaffed. Instead of reducing unnecessary arrests, particularly mental health and drug abuse related arrests, the strategy of county and city leaders has been to expand the jail, rather than expanding mental health and recovery services outside the jail to help people in crisis avoid criminalization, reduce overcrowding, and save taxpayers millions of dollars.

It is time we as a community say enough is enough; we can no longer accept the empty promises and virtue signaling of those in charge of Evansville and Vanderburgh County. We can no longer give local law enforcement blank checks, nor can we trust them to regulate themselves. We need accountability in the form of a citizen oversight board and we demand fiscal responsibility in the form of reduced police/jail spending and allocation of that funding to alternatives that don't leave the most marginalized among us dead.

11/25/2025

Demand accountability and justice for Everett "Scissorhands" Nunn. Call the mayor at (812) 436-4962 and police internal affairs at (812) 436-7890 and demand the officer who killed Everett be fired, prosecuted, and his name be publicly released immediately. Email the mayor at [email protected] and the police department at [email protected]!

11/25/2025

There has been an outpouring of support across Evansville and across this country for beloved community member Everett Nunn. Unlike the police officer involved in this situation, Nunn will not receive paid leave or legal support from the state, he will not get to remain anonymous, and his already struggling family will be left to pick up the pieces and face public scrutiny. If you are able to, please consider donating to to this fundraiser to help his family cover funeral, burial, and grave costs. Even beyond that, help his family seek justice and his children be able to survive and thrive in spite of this tragedy. As many of you know, Everett was a barber who cut hair for so many in the community, and often gave out free haircuts to those in need.

Please donate to this family fundraiser and share it widely. This is our time to step up and show a grieving family what community looks like.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/fight-for-everett-nunn-your-support-matters