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By Stephen Magagnini | Observer Editor-in-Chief
Throughout his 40-year law enforcement career, Calvin Handy has never witnessed the disregard for human life – Black life – that’s transpired in the last year.
The former UC Davis Police Chief, who coordinated police services at all 10 UC campuses, was still processing evidence in the Derek Chauvin trial Monday when his wife Catherine told him, “another unarmed Black man, 20-year-old Daunte Wright, got shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota … the officer who shot him said she confused her taser with her handgun.”
Handy, 73, replied, “‘That’s unbelievable.’ I was sullen, I was sad, I was angry. An unarmed man, another unarmed man. You can only take so much of these things – when I was a cop in the ’70s and ’80s it was rare for an officer to kill an unarmed person. We are all human beings, we have children, grandchildren, siblings, parents and grandparents, friends and neighbors. We’ve got to address