Police Commission Meeting sergeant, next line item. Item one consent calendar q the police chief forceps 5 new tablets if the gorilentrepreneu sought into the richmond valued at 700. Colleagues you have in your packet this is on this consent calendar im trusting you read it was wonderful this gorilirl t troops are using their money for the richmond that is used by the Community Groups and this troop is incredibly generous excessive anything. We want to thank the troops for giving back a Community Room that is used by many groups the girl scouts use it the most and like to look nicer theyre doing something about that and the first one is at least appears to be 20 years old that is great to see a problem and fix it thank you to the girl scout troops i will welcome a motion on this with the consent calendar and so moved. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That item passes. Sergeant, next line item. Sergeant, next line item. General Public Comment at this time, members of the public may add
And to any suggestions version is appropriate. I need you to intervene when you think that an assault of mediocre and if you are concerned about taking action i need you to get help from a friend from Law Enforcement, a chaplain with the officer sadly it is made worse on how he or she is treated. When victims are most vulnerable, the leadership and fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and brains need to stand by them in solidarity and not turn their back or turn away. It may not be easy but i need you to be one of them in person and also online. I know you live online in many ways snap chat, share your days news on facebook and instead ran. Thats why i need you to be leaners. Most of you would intervene if you saw someone being bullied around the campus but too many people like that stuff slide along the line. We know that and sometimes offline. We cant allow all those who do the right thing either in reporting an assault or standing up to stop it to be belittled on facebook ignored, passe
And so in florida they go zerotolerance but in essence they turn on its head. So if they said is the same thing that theyve done in colorado, it has to law and so they pulled all the districts in those states to change the way you do discipline. And the state of maryland, and interview, you already know this, the state school board okay, the state school board did this and oppose regulations on alldistrict in the state of maryland to do the same thing. What did they do . No more misdemeanors can be referred to Law Enforcement. Now to have to be addressed at the school. Changing the philosophy. We do not want to exclude students from school environment. We want to keep them there. We understand all student are not perfect. We want to take you where you are and were going to work with you. Thats a basic fundamental shift in philosophy on how to deal with this behavior in school. And so these three things are perfect examples of what you can do in your own states if you want to take that
Inaction in the aftermath of the killing of Trayvon Martin, the goal was to ensure that the system worked through the proper process. That the killing of an unarmed 17yearold black child did not go uninvestigated and unprosecuted. So now the first part of that system has played out. The jury has returned a verdict of not guilty, a verdict we must respect. Now we must grapple what that verdict means. We must grieve the reality that no one has been held responsible for the violent lost of someones child. We must confront as generations have done before us the stark realities of race, violence and justice. In just a few moments were going to speak with benjamin crump, the attorney for Trayvon Martins family. As we get started in our coverage this morning the verdict, trial of George Zimmerman i want to bring in craig mel sin who has been covering the trial in sanford, florida. Craig, describe for me, if you will, the scene last night. Last night starkly different from what were seeing now
And currently what at georgetown university. [applause] at georgetown university, in 2011 he received wide attention for the course and he talked called one of the sociology of hiphop, jayz. Its earned the book award and the naacp image award for Outstanding Literary Work twice. Dr. Michael eric dyson is a genius who can write about any subject for the late civil rights of and Martin Luther king would reflections on hiphop dinham race, the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. If you turn your tv on, you can often find him on every major media outlet including the the today show, nightline, the oreilly factor, the report. He is a contributing editor to Time Magazine and has an hourlong news program on npr called the the Michael Eric Dyson show. Nbc and join me in welcoming our commentator dr. Michael eric dyson. [applause] thank you, president elect armstrong for that very gracious introduction. Its an honor to be here today to talk about this very serious matter and how we can dismantle the