apparently, i did well. they were clearly surprised that i hadn t just shot everybody, and we all know that most of policing isn t attempted murder-suicides and movie shooters. i wonder if they have a scenario for a black guy standing on the corner minding his own business, and if they do, how often does that guy die? should i have taken a shot? did i have the skills? did i do the right thing? obviously, this isn t a real scenario, and i m sure the reality is way more intense than this, but it feels intense. any number of things can happen. it s my last night here, and in another effort to bring the city together, there s a basketball game between a local team and camden police. looks like community policing isn t helping their game any. and, of course, the police know it s going to take more than b-ball and walking the beat to
camden, or do you live in camden? yes, i do, all my life. all your life. have you seen the city change in your lifetime? it s getting a little better. got a lot of work to do. how much work do they have to do? get these people off the corner, some people parks on on the side of my house using drugs. i called the police last week. did they respond quickly enough? no, they did not. this is the camden police. his people didn t respond. please talk to him. you all didn t respond fast enough. i stopped the car and told them where the car was. early in the morning or late at night? in the afternoon. broad daylight. and i did let them know. the loitering and drug use, and when i came back, the people were still there. why do you think that happens? it all depends on the time of day, however many officers are present, the priority of the call. that could have went out at the same time as a higher priority call. i m sure you understand she doesn t know what the
policing isn t just a situation where it is a relationship between police and suspects but in fact involves broader publics, racial anxiety and the way they call for police to participate. i want to point it outer for the audience if they haven t seen the longer video. when talking about the disruption earlier, apparently it s a parent or somebody at the graduation taking a video. she calls for security. they are graduating in a church. you see a security officer come up the aisle of the church during graduation. the idea that police ought to be present in a moment like that gives you a feeling that we do not have all the answers. my bet is we ll get a lot of them over the next couple of days as people start digging in. yet it belies a reality that i experienced as somebody who grew up this the south, lives in the south. in the 70s if you said interactions between the races, are they bad? actually, people actually using the n-word and the n-word lover
they race in that car they pull this guy out of the car and save this guy s life, and those on the left are so quick to rush to judgment in the case of ferguson, for example, and they turn out wrong. obama was wrong about the cambridge police, wrong about trayvon martin, wrong about what happened in ferguson. and you know what look at the atmosphere its now created. i wouldn t go that far, sean, thanks for having me. let s talk about the truth. the reason why they aren t covered in the media is because 99% of americans believe until 99% of police officers do the right thing. listen policing isn t the problem here, sean. the problem in respective communities is the racism and bias. and if we could work on solving racism on bias and both sides then we could come to a concrete solution. what happens is you have one or two instances, you have bad police officers, bad apples, like the walter scott case in south carolina or the eric garner there s a perception out there there s a per
99% of americans believe until 99% of police officers do the right thing. listen policing isn t the problem here, sean. the problem in respective communities is the racism and bias. and if we could work on solving racism on bias and both sides then we could come to a concrete solution. what happens is you have one or two instances, you have bad police officers, bad apples, like the walter scott case in south carolina or the eric garner there s a perception out there there s a perception. you ve got people like al sharpton and others, the assumption is, oh, police officers are racists, oh what happened to michael brown was because of his race. white cop shoots a black unarmed teenager but he just robbed a store intimidated a clerk charged the police officer aefr fought him for his gun. you re going to get shot. you know, sean sean with all respect and what this gentleman said in the beginning, he s right i m glad to hear that 99% of the people across this country believe in co