Local from his face before a house judiciary subcommittee. This is an hour and 50 minutes. The sum committee will come to order. We will declare a recess of the subcommittee at anytime. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on the challenges faced in Law Enforcement in the 21st century. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement for a matter of quick personal indulgence. I would ask everyone to please remember our friend and colleague, tom tillis north carolina. I want to thank everyone for being here today. I want to thank chairman for this hearing. This week we celebrate National Police week and thats important to all the members of the subcommittee that we have a hearing to honor all Law Enforcement officers. I want to extend a special thank you to our witnesses for being here. We have with us to canterbury, my own personal chief, and director of Public Safety, Alonzo Thompson from the great city of spartanburg, south korea from Los Angeles County sheriff department. [inaudible] is
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And the second night of the uprising, what we called rebellion, my mother and my sister and i had walked to one of the major intersections about two blocks from our house and we had been there for about 15 minutes and suddenly there were shots. There was gunfire. Everyone on the corner was shot except me. My mother and sister were shot, injured. Thankfully they were not lifethreatening injuries but they had to go to the hospital. I ran and got right father. He came up with the car and we took people to the hospital. I was 13yearsold. As you can imagine was very traumatic but notches for me, for the entire city that went through that experience. It has not been something that i had thought about. I have thought about it on my life and it affected the direction my life took. The uprising continued for nearly a week. 43 people were killed. Thousands were injured. At least 2000 buildings were damaged or destroyed. What started the uprising . What happened . There were a million reasons it