dispute. he wrote a letter to his commanding officer. he wrote, quote, when i applied to become a police officer, i knew this was the career for me. i would be the first person in my family to become a police officer. coming from an immigrant family i will fw the first to say i am a member of the nypd, the greatest police force in the world. growing up i realized how impactful my role as a police officer would be in this chaotic city. i knew something as small as helping a tourist with directions or helping a couple resolve an issue would put a smile on someone s face. he continued, growing up in manhattan, the community s relationship between the community and police were not great. i remember witnessing my brother being stopped and frisked. i asked why were we were being pulled over in the taxi. my perspective on police and the way they police really bothered
domestic incident in harlem. a 911 call from a mother arguing with her son. when a man inside began shooting at the officers. he suddenly, without warning, opened fire on them. in a moment, a young 22-year-old life was ended. and another forever altered. reporter: rivera wanted to motivate young people. in a resurfaced video from his high school days,ry sraeur va gives advice. i want you to hear my voice and know you re going to get through it. you have to put in the work. reporter: while he was in the police academy in 2020, he wrote about his experience watching his brother stopped and frisked by officers. over time, he noticed police in his neighborhood working to change their relationship with the community. that quote is when i realized i wanted to be part of the men in blue. better the relationship between
so as we talk about defunding the police, which is something that is very attractive to progressive voters, they may be a loud faction, but they re not the largest faction. in new york and across the country, a lot of people support police officers, not just in uniform, but civilian whols rely on police departments for their sources of employment and/or unions. so this idea that you could take money away from that very large paramilitary organization is not something that s attractive to people on an economic level. but it s something that biden and adams and other black mayors are trying to grapple with. we want safe streets, but we don t want our children stopped and frisked for nothing. there has to be a middle ground. we ve seen it in other communities. why can t we figure out the same sort of policy perspectives in a lot of black and latino communities? so the idea that biden came to new york to start a long-term
the new mayor of new york city eric adams, and who he is and how it helped him win in a column for the new york times earlier this month. many black americans have a friend or relative like eric adams, the new mayor of new york. we have uncles who bring up the progressive benefits of black lives matter in the same breath as the conservative talking points about black on black crime. we have relatives who are cops or former cops who do not want the police defunded, nor loved ones stopped, frisked and mistreated by officers. he is offering a new model for how black leadership can operate in a predominantly white political system, leadership that is simultaneously progressive, moderate, and conservative. joining me now, eliza astro, political third way and author of the report released today titled how does education level impact attitudes among voters of
its mind in a moment. we ll also go to moscow where our own keir simmons reports that support for vladimir putin might be shifting. joining me now is nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley in dnipro ukraine, and courtney kube. matt, you are in the south central portion of ukraine. what is the latest there? reporter: yeah, i mean, the situation here, this is a city that hasn t gotten a lot of bombardment, but nevertheless, i think it kind of speaks for every city throughout ukraine. it is so tense here. it is just girding for the worst, and you can see it in the people s faces. you can see it walking around the streets. there are soldiers manning every sort of corner, and if you re walking around there, you can expect to be stopped, you can expect to be frisked, and everybody is completely on edge, and another thing we ve been seeing, people tearing down signs because when the russians do invade, they want to confuse them and not be able to have them find their way around the