Movement sparked by floyds death. Is leading to calls to Defund Police departments around the country its a lot easier to fix windows and is the existence of leading the charge to make a difference and east bay residents stepping up the project created to help black Business Owners now and in the future. Good evening. Thanks for joining us tonight for kron 4 news at a time can way and im pam moore federal and local officials provided an update on the killing of a Santa Cruz County deputy today, suspected gunman stephen is accused of an ambush style attack. At his home that involved explosives and gunfire. Deputy dave and thats willard was killed and 2 other officers were injured in saturdays melee. Kron fours dan thorn live for us in santa cruz tonight he joins us now with an update on whats going on we see a large. Pile and flowers erin honor of that deputy dan. Thats right ken and pam this is a growing memorial here outside of the Sheriffs Office here in santa cruz investigators mean
Opportunity. At a fundamental level we have communities in this level that feel a level of uncertainty, how they will be allowed to proceed with life, liberty and the pursue the happiness from businesses when you have uncertainty thats not good. Thats part of what this discomfort is about. The other piece is opportunity and i know ken frazier talked about this on cnbc earlier today, a question about who has opportunity in this country to advance economically what happens to economic mobility Going Forward education questions there as well i think as a country, if were going to be as efficient as we can be, if were going to be as advanced a we can be, we have to get the most that we can out of all of our people out of all of our resources. From an Economic Perspective to me, carl, thats where this needs to go. Morgan, i know that theres been so much going on this weekend, both on the streets and in business dont know what youve got your eyes on. Yeah. I think you really hit the nail on
Now and theyre pretty number literally difficult situation. How so. Imagine yourself being on the line in a protester trained to erkeep the peace and you have people spitting in your face, throwing rocks, molotov cocktails, that is a tough profession to be in to put up without. As far as the last couple of weeks you speak about, what are your thoughts and what was your response from your organization about the death of georgeseiz f . I said to countless Media Outlets and i mean it, if there is any Police Officer in this country who was not outraged by that death, they should turn in their badge, they should not be a s cop. Every police chief that i know is outraged. What do you think went wrong in that situation. That is ain great question tt i been asked a number of times, while i am not familiar with the agency or the leadership of the agency, for me as a lawenforcement leader it comes down to a few things. It comes down to training and it comes down to culture into leadership. I am
In the mountain pacific time zones, 202 7488001, and if you are a member of Law Enforcement and want to give your perspective, you can cause at 202 7488002. You can post on twitter at cspan wj. Or facebook. Com cspan. Monmouth university released a recent poll taking a look at relations between police and minority communities. Here are some of the findings from that pole. It showed 87 of those polled felt that individuals of their race are more likely than whites to experience Excessive Force. 49 of white americans say police are more likely to use Excessive Force against a black culprit, and 39 of whites say police are just as likely to use Excessive Force regardless of race. That was done by monmouth university. Atre is more to the poll their website. Several communities are reaching out to dialogue with members of minority communities on the topic of policing. I will show you a couple. This from kansas city, kansas. Saying the mayor once members of the community to share their exper
First responders during the coronavirus pandemic. The house sign space and Technology Committee is hosting. You are watching live coverage on cspan. We can understand more clearly what we are facing. Significant n to local estate tax revenue. And other sources of support for Fire Departments. Facing some departments the hardest decision for firefighters in this crisis. We are in the middle of this health guide trips Health Crisis that at the same time the country is addressing longstanding racism. We are also in the early days of [inaudible] paul. Are not on mute, im sorry . [beep] ok. Thismain in the middle of health and economic crisis at the same time our country is confronting racial injustice. On top of that, we are in the early days of an honest wildfire hurricane season. This is a time of great uncertainty. , people are counting on us to ensure our First Responders have the tools and support they need to do their job well and safely. I look forward to Todays Congress andout help