Strata or race. And that theyre there to soy those folks, theyre there to protect those folks. And i hope that they also tell them and provide for them care. Because i think one of the big issues that were going to see as a result of this aside and away from host having audio issues. Let me direct your attention to the Washington Post sunday opinion section. A long list of other people whether at a walmart playing in a park, a traffic stop, already arrested or a car breaks down all who were killed at the hands of Police Inside the Washington Post. Robert from greenville, north carolina. Caller as far as the Police Departments, the fraternal order of police and the Police Unions as long as theyre running the show were going to have these problems because they have too much, they just favor Law Enforcement to the degree where theres officers on the force that have had 10, 15, 20 writeups and theyre still on the force, and if you are in the real workplace that wouldnt happen. Thank you. H
Saw. When i saw you you were on the al um rock bridge overpass over just thank you. They had just gotten folks off of the freeway, this was one of the ways that they were protesting was by halting traffic and i thought it was really important for me to be there to witness it, to be part of it, to stand in solidarity with our folks who are protesting, but more than anything to stand in solidarity with the country that is in mourning over what we saw the horrific video where we all witnessed a murder take place. And i took my son who just turned 17, its important for him to also be a part of happening. Its a movement that is taking place all throughout the country. The outrage thats being felt is real and it comes from it comes from a very deeprooted place of pain. The historical i taken place re whatever section you want to point at. The Police Department is one that were now dealing with because of what we saw, but this comes from a place of disappointment, of great despair, of feeling
Saying, go back to your bunker. The police chief and officers g the first time in days. Ahead, seattles police chief joining us live. Canceled. Two Popular Police reality shows pulled from the air in the wake of the protests over Police Brutality. The longrunning series cops with drug busts, alleged drunk drivers and foot chases all caught on camera and one of the highest rated shows on cable, live pd pulled after the revelation that cameras were present during a deadly arrest in texas. Host and producer of live pd dan abrams joins us live. Gma exclusive. Could this germzapping robot be the key to killing the covid virus in your hotel room, your anw th morni, th revealed. Right in the wake of vocal criticism from both fans and former stars over the shows lack of diversity. I was hoping when i came on to be a trail blazer for that, but in the last three years there really havent been changes made. Only one black lead in 40 seasons and 18 years of the frche. How the show is addressing al
Were sad to have the director not joining us and i know shes on the call and id like to open it up to directors and ill start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this wil
Were watching up on some of that work as well as completing the westportal cross over that the former director advocated for. We should be able to complete the westportal cross over in time for the restorative rail service allowing us to be able to potentially offer threecar shuttles in the subway between westportal and embarcadero stations. Were also moving forward rapidly on the van ness Improvement Projects and the lack of transportation on van ness avenue and it has been able to allow the crews to accelerate the sewer and water work thats been the source of so much of the disruption on that street and that work is continuing quickly and it means that well be able to start the sfmta portion of that project and the transit portion starting this spring. Ill remind you all, that while the sfmta is in the lead of the brt project, none of our work has started yet. The work for creating the bus Rapid Transit line so were very much looking forward to that work getting moving and many of yo