Members of the OK at a Saturday meeting
Y-Press reporter Max Gabovitch talks with Sergeant Timothy Knight, director of the Indianapolis OK program as well as several youth involved in the program. He learns how this program is helping young black males in the Indianapolis community.
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Sergeant Timothy Knight is the director of the OK Program, run by six fulltime police officers and serving over 200 male teenagers on Indianapolis’s Eastside. Several teens and Sergeant Knight talk about how the organization helps educate, support and build character in young black males between the ages of 12 -18.
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Sergeant Timothy Knight is the director of the OK Program, run by six fulltime police officers and serving over 200 male teenagers on Indianapolis’s Eastside. Several teens and Sergeant Knight talk about how the organization helps educate, support and build character in young black males between the ages of 12 -18.
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