Portland racial equity committee recommends oversight changes for police department Share Updated: 6:09 PM EDT Jul 1, 2021 Share Updated: 6:09 PM EDT Jul 1, 2021
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Show Transcript MANNION REPORTS ON WHAT IT S RECOMMENDING R FO CHANGES TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. :21 LAST YEAR AFTER THE MURD OF GEORGE FLOYD A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE ORGANIZED PROTTSES PORTLAND CITY COUNCILOR PIOUS ALI IS THE COCHAIRF O THE RACIAL EQUITY STEERING COMMITTEE, CREAT ED FOLLOWING PROTESTS LAST SUMMER FOR RACIAL JUSTICE. :55 MAKE SUGGESTIONS ON WH AT NEEDS TO BE OFFLOADED OM FR POLICE PLATE BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY THGS TINHAT WE ASK THEM TDO O ON MONDAY THE COUNCIL HEARD FROM THE COMMITTEE WITH 13 MEMBERS. T 6HE5 PAGE REPORT PROPOSED RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY LIKE 5:03 THAT THE CITY SHOU LLDOOK INTO HOW COMMUNITY POLICING COULD WORK AND MEDIATE TO CREATE A COMMUNITY POLICING THAT THE COMMUNITY TRUSTS (( TAKE FULLSCREEN)) AN ALTERNATIVE RPOESNSE TO MENT
Artists and activists gather in Portland to mark anniversary of George Floyd’s death
The event was held on Congress Street to memorialize Floyd, the Black man whose murder by a white Minneapolis police officer touched off a year of racial reckoning.
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The crowd watches a play by the group Maine Inside Out during Monday s remembrance on the anniversary of George Floyd s murder. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
About 200 people gathered in Portland on Tuesday night to remember the life of George Floyd, whose murder one year ago by a Minneapolis police officer sparked months of protests and an ongoing reckoning with racial injustice.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) A racial equality committee in Maine's largest city is taking comments about public safety until the middle of March. Portland's Racial Equity Steering Committee is.