And for standards for Police Training and greater diversity proposals made and in several cases adopted in the wake of numerous other Police Murders including those of eric garner and Michael Brown the Minneapolis Police department for example established a duty to intervene required by Police Officers after the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in ferguson this requirement did not say floyd joining me to discuss the role of the police and what we must do to end the power of police to inflict indiscriminate violence is philip mackerras a writer activist and ph d. Candidate in sociology and africanamerican studies at Yale University so lets begin with a history because its not new we go all the way back to the Johnson Administration and all of the mechanisms and this has been bipartisan that has been used to a step simply reform the police have actually boomerang and made the police more on the potent and more lethal can you take us through that history yeah i mean we can even go back a bit
Way out of mass incarceration or this current you know policing apparatus that we have or the culture of surveillance that is actually under the broader culture tradition and control that is its actively harming certain people when its also not operating in this way of giving public its a way that the broader public can see that to instill the entire thing has to be an error in that there is no tweaking it but along that way there are certain steps that can take in north to begin dismantling and shifting resources our way in the end thats diverse framework which is fundamentally about the best and from systems of punishment in this specific context policing in reinvesting those lines into Community Resources and institutions because we know what makes this in this community is this research as we look around the country to say this means that most resource not least. Our National Conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction it is the fiction that the organs of internal security
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I want to take this moment to welcome everyone to Trinity United Church of christ in chicago illinois. We are a church that believes that we are called to be in the heart of this community ever seeking the communities hard and our motto is that we are unashamedly black and christian. We dont think theres any contradiction between routing your self and your culture and also celebrating the christ with whom we serve. We are delighted that you are here for our booknotes. We had a wonderful experience here today. To Worship Services with a magnificent preacher to my left. And none other than the reverend doctor Rafael Warnock who is senator Rafael Warnock, who is the first africanamerican senator from the state of georgia. He has two publications, one being a way out of no way which is a memoir of his experience from savannah all the way to the senate, and a wonderful Childrens Book. He read to a small group of children immediately following the Worship Service today. We recorded that read
Get informed straight from the source. On cspan, unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. From the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. [inaudible conversations] we want to take this moment to welcome everyone to Trinity United Church of christ here in chicago, illinois. We are a church that believes that we are called to be in the heart of this community ever seeking the communitys heart, and our motto is that we are black and christian, we dont think theres any contradiction rooting yourself in your culture and also celebrating the christ whom we serve. Were delighted youre here for our book notes, we had a wonderful worship experience today to Worship Services with a magnificent preacher who is to my left none other than reverend dr. Raphael warnock who is senator raphael warnock. [applause], who is the first africanamerican senator from the state of georgia. He has two pub