Who is Charles McMillian?
Charles McMillian is a 61-year-old man who witnessed the death of George Floyd outside a store in Minneapolis. He has currently been called upon as a witness in the trial against one of the former officers, Derek Chauvin.
During the trial when McMillian saw the footage of Floyd s interaction with the police officers and his eventual death, the 61-year-old witness broke down saying he felt helpless . McMillian recalled the incident. Basically, I [saw] the officer asking Mr Floyd to get out of the truck. Floyd was later allowed to sit on the sidewalk and was placed in handcuffs. Two police officers made Floyd stand up and walked him across the street to a police car parked outside Cup Foods.
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Of all the sloganeering of 2020, he thinks that slice of anti-police rhetoric is the most dangerous.
“I don’t want to say, ‘Hey, you’re wrong,’ but I do think they’re wrong,” he said. “I don’t know how you would even debate that. They are not saying improve; they are saying destroy.”
Mr. Petersen isn’t exactly a disinterested observer. He is the senior researcher for Right on Crime and the Center for Effective Justice at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
In that capacity, he tries to make better cops by developing a training formula for police departments nationwide. The goal is to help police better serve their communities and, perhaps, improve their image in the process.