To axe up to 600 jobs nearly a quarter of its workforce because of the travel slump caused by the coronavirus pandemic Harry Maguires legal Team Launches an appeal after he was given a suspended sentence for an altercation with police in greece. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Two people have died and another has been seriously injured in the us city of kenosha, during violent protests about the Police Shooting of an unarmed black man. Jacob blake was shot seven times by police as he leaned into his car, while his Young Children sat inside screaming. The 29 year old is now paralysed. For a third night, demonstrators clashed with riot police, and a curfew in the wisconsin city was widely ignored. Jacob blakes mother has appealed for an end to the violence. A warning that you may find some images injames robbins report distressing. The third night of protests in kenosha, sparked by the Police Shooting on sunday, and clashes become far more serious. Once again, some protesters att
Death. These are stories that do not have the luxury of turning away but they have to respond situations and take responsibility for it. This is what passes for normal in their report. The work at officers through today take a huge toll on the human mind and body and soul and many of her officers who suffer from it we continue to work to help others and they should receive psob benefits. They should receive these benefits as a result of turn four. I appreciate the opportunity and urge you to consider this as we move forward. Thank you for your testimony. Next well hear from Jonathan Thompson executive director of the National Sheriffs association. Good afternoon, members of the task force, thank you for inviting me to testify. Im currently serving as the executive director of the National Sheriffs association that represents and each one serves as the chief Law Enforcement officer for that. Chairs are the only of lawenforcement officers providing the full line of Services Including jai
Because we know that you have a great relationship, or at least, you know on the distribution better than most. Your mayor brought you here. You have twice monthly meetings with your police chief. But for someone whos starting not from a good a position of, you know relatively good relations, i think maybe there are some more concrete things you can say about how you let it start with the union representative. And if you could give us ideas about a strategy, that would be useful, at least for me to hear. Like getting your membership on board or something. I dont know how you do that. Its a fair question. And we all have our own constituencies. And people sometimes try to overindicator to theirs. For example, if im expecting a public official to be the one to take that leap of faith, what you have to realize is that they answer to their constituency and that theyre going to weigh that very heavily. The chief answers in our city to the city manager who answers to the mayor and all the co
Over 146 officer fatalities per year. That is a shocking number. One officer killed somewhere in america every 60 hours. All right. But the good news is that numbers are going down. If you go back to the 1970s we were averaging 231 officers killed in the line of duty each and every year. That means the 146 number i cited is 37 lower than it was 40 years ago. That is at a time we have double number of officers serving and putting themselves at risk. Would you have expected that number would have gone up, not down. There are a number of factors that are responsible for that and i have enumerated some of them in my written testimony. I want to just spend a moment though reemphasizing the leadership that the attorney general of the United States eric holder, has focused on issue of officer safety and wellness. Im not sure he is getting enough credit for his leadership. Just a few years ago, when deaths were spiking, 171 officers killed in 2011 he held a summit in his office with about 40 L
Prf. I hope they dont end with a report. I hope its a springboard to action. Thank you, mr. Pasco. Very interesting. Our last speaker on this panel is dustin smith. Hes president of the Sacramento Police officers association. Welcome. Good afternoon. And thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today. What id like to first comment on is the fact that we create a large part of the publics perception of their local Law Enforcement. No manner of outreach can overcome what we create. Please let me define we. By we i mean the police unions, Police Departments and the governments. We need to take care of our own house through our relationships. My first example would be we need to discontinue the practice of tearing down each other publicly. Were no longer going to battle with my chief and my local government. And the real Public Relations portion of that, the real connection to the community were looking for is if i spend all day tearing down my chief and talking about why his de