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Community leaders and police administration gathered for a town hall meeting Thursday night to discuss social injustice.
The town hall was held at Ebenezer Baptist Church in north Oklahoma City and included OKC advocate Grace Franklin, Oklahoma City Police Chief Wade Gourley, Deputy Chief Ron Bacy, Ret. Chief Charles Ramsey, and Ebenezer Baptist Church Pastor Derrick Scobey.
The town hall was held to share information about 21CP (21st Century Policing) which is in the process of being implemented in Oklahoma City, but the topic shifted to an Oklahoma City police officer being charged in the death of Bennie Edwards.
“Society has failed when we are not helping those people before they get to that point,” said Oklahoma City Police Chief, Wade Gourley.