Detroit Police Chief James Craig Slams Rashida Tlaib for Self Serving Comments, Says Vulnerable Communities Need Policing
On 4/28/21 at 12:52 PM EDT
In the continued debate on the future of policing, Detroit Police Chief James Craig slammed self serving comments from Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, in which she called for no more policing. You know, I got to tell you, and I ve said it so many times, Craig said in an interview with Fox News
The Faulkner Focus on Tuesday. [Tlaib s] comments were reckless and…really don t represent the people who live in our city.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig rebuked Rep. Rashida Tlaib s self serving comments about policing and said vulnerable communities need police. Above, Craig talks to reporters about a shooting of nine people outside a barbershop on November 6, 2013 in Detroit.
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If you’re hoping that Tuesday’s Derek Chauvin verdict will spark true reform in American policing, you may have been looking at the wrong trial.
Not because the guilty verdict of the fired Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd last May doesn’t signal a sea change in the nation’s justice system. It does.
And not because it doesn’t finally confirm to anyone open to listening that Black lives, once and for all, do matter, and taking them away has a cost. It sends that message loud and clear, too.
But because real change isn’t just convicting a veteran officer gone bad, or branding him a rogue that all good cops should shun. Rather, it’s reforming and reinventing the system that created him in the first place.