Records and making sure future departments can see what is happening. Body cameras. Increasing the a bell billy of body cameras and the technology of those, making sure the body cameras stay on a creek a moments. Increasing the availability. And transparency of somebody dies in police custody, keeping all of those records and on an fbi record. Right now 40 of departments around the country do that and we would like to get that to ever department round the country so we increase transparency. What about a ban on chokeholds . Absolute absolutely we should have that. That is one thing we should have engaged in a long time ago and many departments around the country have already banned chokeholds. Some departments did not train for chokeholds and their officers can only do where they have been trained for but this has been pretty clear. Theres been a longstanding principle out there that it is not needed for that situation, and there has been a consensus document done in 2017 by Law Enforc
To the chorus demanding the Police Officers responsible for his death face justice. I keep finding myself taking that mr. Floyds death wasnt just a tragedy and it wasnt just a crime, it was a failure. It was our failure. Systemic racism is built into every level of our society and for 400 years black brown and Indigenous People of paid the price. Racism isnt just evil though it is, its dangerous and racism isnt just a moral issue, though it is, its a Public Health issue and the deathlo of mr. Fld like the death of so many black and brown people before him is an indictment of our failure of policymakers to fulfill our first and most important duty which is to protect the lives of the people that we serve. Black lives matter. We need to say it loud and often with strength and with purpose. If we truly mean it that we need to be very clear about why it is that so many whack an bromides are being c stolen and that meas we cant just point to systemic racism writ large. We have to talk about
Side. But, us know, history is not the long suit. Of these woke children. They didnt take history classes apparent lit in high school and college. They were too busy taking social justice seminars. You can see tt too in philadelphia. The statue of matias baldwin. He was a committed and devoted abolitionist who funded education for freed African Americans, who gave them jobs, and they defaced his statue. Even more amazing, in boston the shaw memorial was defaced. The shaw memorial honors the 54th massachusetts regiment, the first African American regiment formed after the emancipation proclamation. Whose braver and battle on behalf of the union cause was memorialized in the movie glory. Yet it was defaced by these mobs. Not just our history. Its pop culture and entertainment too. You may have seen the news that live p. D. And cops Television Shows canceled. Paw patrol was on the cutting board too. You may know that chase is the police cop. Theres call to euthanize the police dog on soci
We absolutely have to be able to find Common Ground with the house and this is an issue that needs to be addressed and it can and will be addressed. The house have their perspective and they have put that out, and the president will put out his proposals. Senate republicans will put out there put out there in their proposals. We will work to get that resolved. Our focus is on transparency, Police Records and employment records and making sure future departments can see what is happening. Body cameras. Not only increasing the ilability of body grandmas body cameras and the technology of those, making sure the body cameras stay on a creek a moments. And transparency of somebody dies in police custody, keeping all of those records and on an fbi record. Right now 40 of departments around the country do that and we would like to get that to ever department round the country so we increase transparency. What about a national ban on chokeholds . Absolutely we should have that. That is one thi
Increasing not only the availability, but the technology , making sure those cameras stay on at critical moments. Trying to be able to work through if someone dies in police custody, keeping those records. 40 of Police Departments do that. We would like to get that to every Police Department so we increase transparency. What about a national ban on chokeholds . Lankford absolutely. A lot of departments increasing that. Dont train in chokeholds. There has been a longstanding principle that that is not needed in that situation. There has been a consensus document that was done in 2017 by Law Enforcement to say that that is not needed. I think tt