then i saw the facebook posts or the social media posts from the african-american teen s mother asking is this really what this police department stands for, handcuffing and restraining a young african-american teenager? she says her son was there actually trying to break up a fight, and then to see that white kid sitting unrestrained, unhandcuffed, you know, on the side of this incident and the black kid on the ground being treated in such a rough manner by police, this is the kind of video these are the kinds of actions by police that we have been protesting for so long. people are tired of seeing this disparate treatment of african americans by police officers. with all the lawsuits, cops going to jail, cities paying multi-million dollar settlements, that police would get the message and we d see a different kind of policing. i don t know what it s going to take, but this videotape demonstrates they are not getting the message. it s a new day and african americans are not going to
a black teen and a white teen. the other officer presses the black teen to the ground and kneels on his back, and the black teen ends up in handcuffs and says he has to go to a holding area, and the white teen is just, you know, allowed to leave. how does this look to you? it was appalling, don. watching that videotape, and then i saw the facebook posts or the social media posts from the african-american teen s mother asking is this really what this police department stands for, handcuffing and restraining a young african-american teenager? she says her son was there actually trying to break up a fight, and then to see that white kid sitting unrestrained, unhandcuffed, you know, on the side of this incident and the black kid on the ground being treated in such a rough manner by police, this is the kind of video these are the kinds of actions by police that we have been protesting for so long. people are tired of seeing this
votes took 56%. to be clear, this was never going to get rid of police officers with a single vote. one consistent thing i heard from those planning to vote no, they didn t believe the ballot language was specific enough about what this would be and what it would do. proponents told me it would make it easier to add services like mental health support, prevention services into the safety mix. the police department stands as it is for now. this likely won t be the last
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