Trayvon martin, dwayne bryant. Hes also the author of the stop improving police and community relations. Thank you for joining us, dwayne. Youre now an activist focusing on tensions between police and people of color. You didnt become so until the death of your friend, trayvon martin. Remind viewers how trayvon died. Trayvon martin died in florida at the hands of a Security Guard told by Law Enforcement to stand down, not pursue, do not continue to assault this person and did not, but a vigilante himself. Dehumanized him and decided to take the law in his own hands and found not guilty. I know that has left a grave wound in your heart, his death. Youre turning it into action though and speaking out. I want you to ask about the Breonna Taylor grand jury decision today. Only one officer was charged. Officer brett hankison. Two otherles not indicted at all including the officer who fired the fatal shot. Whats your reaction to that . I think its a travesty of justice because he was charged
Your background. Guest im an alumni of the Fbi Citizens Academy and part of a civilian office of Police Accountability in chicago. I have also done a couple town policeetings in chicago departments and had a privilege of speaking in virginia with seven Different Police departments, as well as harrisburg. Book,so the title of your because it deals with improving issues of police and Community Relations. How would you characterize those relations as they stand today . [laughter] guest if anyone has two eyes, two years and half a brain, they can see the relationship is very strange. Police and Community Relations are probably at an alltime low. It will require solutions. Host would you say the status or the range of relationship has always been the same for many years and is only different this year because of recent events . What has changed over time . Guest the reality is, if you understand history, history believes the black Community Relations were always trained militia goese or out
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The 9th. Donald, you go way back to the tournaments infancy. How has this thing taken off . Its amazing. Well, we started the tournament in 1969 at the public parks there at 16th and kennedy. Johnny harris and i were cochairman. We ran the tournament for three years. And it started to catch on a little, we got some traction. So we thought it would be different and we gave the tournament and the sanction of the week to the Washington Tennis Foundation which was just starting up as a foundation for tennis for kids. And our concept was very simple. We thought if we could get a lot of interested tennis fans washington is a very good tennis town. Historically. And the profits from the tournament and all of the surrounding benefits to go back to junior tennis in the community and we have done that. And i think the wtf and alanny have done a terrific job. Like the tournament its grown and grown. I have been lucky enough to go over there to southeast and see the amazing really incredible work
Spent at starbucks by one federal agency. Theyre make ro puicropurchases. Theyre able to use governmentfunded credit cards, but our iteam member found out the purchases are a small sample of nearly 20 billion in federal government purchases made but kept secret each year. Reporter they hit one of the starbucks here in d. C. , another in associatiocean city, too. And nearly a dozen others nationwide, including 10,000 purchases in a starbucks in california. All told, the employees of one agency, the department of Homeland Security, using government taxpayer purchase cards bought starbucks last year. They wont tell us what they bought, why they bought it, nor are they required to release the information to the public. The public wouldnt have known if the team hadnt dug up the reports. We showed it to the man overseeing the committee. When you have this money being spent in six months, someone is abusing the purchasing permission that we have given them. Reporter it took us months and inte