Pursuit of meaningful change both in the wake of george floyd step and in the midst of a larger legacy of Racial Injustice in this country. I want to thank you all for joining and i want to thank jean henning for her organizing the series. Let me introduce the moderator of todays roundtable repressor Christy Lopez. Professor lopez joined our faculty in january 2017 right after completing a federal investigation of the Chicago Police department will goodwill serving of the Department Just a Civil Rights Division she led that investigation and many others to examine patterns and practices of unconstitutional policing across the country including in new orleans, los angeles and ferguson. Since joining our faculty professor lopez has cofounded our Innovative Policing Program which is now launching a Prevention Program called abler active bystander ship for recently professor lopez has written up that somehow the Police Culture could have saved George Floyds life and what the funding of pol
Starr hopkins. Followed by commentator Armstrong Williams. And john dicken talked about infections in Nursing Homes. Washington journal is next. Join the discussion. Host one week ago today, africanamerican george floyd died at the hands of the Minneapolis Police. Protests, civil unrest, and violence and reaction to that expanded to some 75 u. S. Cities, building to a crescendo over the weekend. Good morning, and welcome to washington journal for this monday, june 1, 2020. Well start the hour asking you this hour about the president s leadership in response to the unrest, the president largely communicating, commenting on the issue saturday, some at nasa, and largely leaving his response to twitter. What are your thoughts . Republicans, use 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. And independents, all others, 2027488002. You can also send us a text, that line is 2027488003. And make sure that you leave us your name, tell us where youre texting from. cspanwj. , were, your comments welcome on
Talk about the reaction to the George Floyd Killing, which has grown exponentially just over the last couple days. What is your reaction to what you have seen in the country . Specifically the d. C. Im from d. C. , i grew up here. My grand i graduated from the first integrated high school. Its personal. We keep seeing shootings, an indifference to black life so i think now were at a tipping point. Were dealing with 400 years of tragedy and i think a combination of factors have come together and theyre not going to allow us to ignore it. Host when you look back at the video to watch of george floyd under arrest, Police Officer with his knee on the nevk of orge floyd for eight or nine minutes, the reaction of the people in the crowd. Obviously theres filming going on. Does it surprise you that these sorts of tactics still exist in American Police forces given the presence of not just social media but media in general, given the presence of changes in leadership including minneapolis and
Specifically d. C. , i grew up here. My grandparents with her first immigrated High School Class so it is very personal. You keep seeing these shootings, and indifference to black life. I think now we are dealing with 400 years of tragedy and i think a combination of factors that come together they are not going to allow us to ignore. When you look back at the video, the difficult video to watch of george floyd under arrest, the Police Officer with his knee on the neck of george floyd for eight or nine minutes, the reaction of the people in the crowd, obviously theres filming going on. Does it surprise you these tactics still exist in American Police forces, given the presence of not just social media but media in general, given the presence of changes of leadership and Police Including minneapolis, promises to change Police Practice . It does. Inherently, it surprises me but given what we continue to see, it doesnt. You would think withyok camera, but the abundance of social media and
Death of george floyd in minneapolis and the protests that have followed. His podcast available on spotify. N we first book do you when we first booked you, the idea was to get your reaction to the george floyd killing. Broadly, your reaction to what you have seen in the country . It is heartbreaking. I grew up here. My parents were the first integrated high school class, so it is really personal. We keep seeing these shootings, and indifference to black life. We are now at a tipping point. 400 years of tragedy and confluence of factors have come together and they will not allow us to ignore it. Difficult video to watch a george floyd under arrest, a Police Officer with the knee on the neck of george floyd for almost nine minutes. Obviously there is foaming going on. Filming going on. It surprise you that these tactics still exist in American Police forces given the presence of social media, changes of leadership and police forces, and promises to change forceses and u. S. Police . Pro