Of the public. So thank you all for joining us. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. The first order of business is item 1, roll call. Commission members, please respond when i call your name. Commissioner brackett. Present. Commissioner scott. Here. Vice chair rosales is absent. And chair bustos. Here. And all members of the commission are present. And item 2 is announcements. A, the procedures. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. Viewers online will be instructed to dial 1 888 5578511. And enter the passcode 7500645. Followed by the pound sign. Press the pound sign again to enter as a participant. And again that number is 1 888 5578511. And then enter the access code which is 7500645. Press pound and then pound again to enter as a participant. The members will show up on the screen during each Public Comment secti
Commissioner brackett. Present. Commissioner scott. Here. Vice chair rosales is absent. And chair bustos. Here. And all members of the commission are present. And item 2 is announcements. A, the procedures. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. Viewers online will be instructed to dial 1 888 5578511. And enter the passcode 7500645. Followed by the pound sign. Press the pound sign again to enter as a participant. And again that number is 1 888 5578511. And then enter the access code which is 7500645. Press pound and then pound again to enter as a participant. The members will show up on the screen during each Public Comment section. When you are connected listen to the instructions and when prompted dial 1, and then 0 to be added to the queue to speak. Youll be lined up in the order that you dial 1 and 0. And you will be placed on mute and it will notify
This is just the beginning. Good afternoon. Im sarah, executive editor at axios, and welcome to our lives event. Many of your joining us live from wherever you are. We are Live Streaming on facebook, youtube, on twitter and, of course, you can also catch us on axios. Com. If you are on twitter you can join the conversation by using the hashtag axios events and be sure to include our handle at axios. Lets get started. Im coming to today live from a home in washington, d. C. And today we have a very big conversation. Our event is the epidemic of inequality. And today will have an important conversation about systemic racism in our country. The reason were here was marked by the death of george floyd in minneapolis but as everyone has seen in the streets, in cities and in states across our country over the past 11 days theres an underlying problem that is yet to be fully addressed, and with adequate reforms and justice. So today were bringing you four speakers, two with a National Perspec
Where Live Streaming on facebook on youtube, twitter and you can catch us on axios. Com. You can join us and join us with our handle at axios. As a woman is seen in the streets and cities and in states across our country over the past 11 days theres an underlying problem that is yet to be fully addressed and with adequate reform and justice. So today we bring you four speakers, two with the National Perspective and two with a local perspective to begin to have a conversation about whats next and where we go from here. Let me just tell you that we have coming up today. We have derrick johnson, ceo of the naacp. We have Melvin Carter, mayor of st. Paul, minnesota. We have lovely warren, shes a rochester, new york,k, and web congressman bobby rush of illinois. So first i i want to start with our first guest, is president and ceo of a the naacp, derrick johnson. Welcome. Hes joining us live from jackson, mississippi. Thank you for havingroon me. Thank you so much. The first question i want
Protest across the nation and the measured needed to Reform Police departments. Good afternoon. Im sarah cayhill. Im the executive editor at axios. And welcome to our live zoom event. Many of us are joining us live. We are Live Streaming on facebook. Were on youtube on twitter. And you can catch us on axios. Com. And if you are on twitter, you can join the conversation by using the hashtag ax yos events. And be sure to include our handle at axios. So lets get started. Im coming to you live from my home in washington, d. C. And today, we have a very big conversation. Our event is the epidemic of inequality. And today, we want to have an important conversation about systemic racism in our country. The reason were here is because of the death of of george floyd in minneapolis. But as everyone has seen in cities and states across our country over the past 11 days, theres an underlying problem that has yet to be fully addressed and with adequate reform and justice. So today, we are bringing