Mayor Robert Sullivan and multiple school committee members held a closed-door meeting at Brockton High School, with dozens of concerned residents waiting outside.
Mayor Robert Sullivan of Brockton, Massachusetts, says the city's schools are short about $14 million for the fiscal year, and the district's superintendent is.
consequences as was the case here. it sounds like if you watch the video, the traffic stop emanate friday a perceived slight. i don t know that for a fact. if you watch the video, the officer talks about the fact that he felt tie ri nichols vehicle almost struck his, and they were angry. that we do know, the officers were angry from the moment they encountered nichols. i think that played a lot into their behavior. i mentioned we re not even sure if nichols was lawfully stopped, whether it was a case if one of those officers felt like he almost got into an accident with him. but where does that tell you what does that tell you about that part of the investigation and how easy or difficult or important will it be to find out what happens as a motivating factor. look, even if they had some justification which happens in other cases, nevertheless, it
human being can respond so quickly to each of those commands that are so rapid fire. that could have been intentional. it would have been something that was happening in the heat of the moment. i don t know. but whatever it was, it was still unprofessional and it led to this tragic outcome because no one, no one, tie ri nichols or anyone else could possibly comply with those types of commands at that speed. it was just so it was wrong. it was wrong in so many ways. sonia, you ve spoken out on the lack of a timely medical response, pointing out it took an ambulance minutes to arrive on the scene. what does reform look like on that level? i m glad you said that. reform is going to have to be holistic, meaning it s not just about what the police does. it s about what all the systems are doing surrounding the police