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11 May 2021
Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan is donating $120,000 to fund a program geared towards teaching New Orleans cops not to be racist.
On Monday, the Saints star announced that the funds would go towards expanding an anti-racist training program that will help “80 cops confront and overcome biases over the next two years.”
According to NOLA.com:
Jordan decided to donate $120,000 to the effort after watching racial justice demonstrations rage last year in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis cop who has since been convicted of murder.
The expansion will allow the nonprofit Crescent City Corps to offer 80 hours of instruction to participating officers on topics such as racial equity, responding to the effects of trauma, and leadership development, officials said at a news conference. The group will teach four classes, with approximately 20 officers each, over the course of two years.
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A professional football player is making sure that police officers in the town he works have the training necessary to know how to properly treat people of color while interacting with them in the field.
New Orleans Saints‘ three-time All-Pro defensive end Cam Jordan has teamed with Crescent City Corps (CCC), a New Orleans-based non-profit that helps police officers with learning leadership development and community engagement training. The officers then use the training to work alongside people within the community to help build a more just, safe, and inclusive city.
After a successful pilot program with 10 officers in 2019, the program will train more than 80 New Orleans Police Department officers in the next two years, with Jordan committing more than $100,000 to its funding.via a partnership with his God Iz Love foundation.
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Jordan said he was inspired to get involved while he was watching demonstrations unfold in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, a Black man who was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer. The 31-year-old wanted to show his four children all of whom were born in New Orleans that he helped make a difference. I wanted to do something that makes them proud, Jordan said, per Just and Vargas. This is not a solution, this is not a completion . [but] we have a chance to create a positive impact in this way.
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