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Deputies from the Franklin County Sheriff Department sit in front of a Blue Lives Matter flag at a police reform meeting in February 2021.
(Screenshot) Conversations about systemic racism and policing are happening across New York right now, sparked by a statewide mandate to reform law enforcement agencies after the death of George Floyd last summer. The reform process has revealed deep divisions in the way people in the North Country think about racial bias and policing . After George Floyd was killed by police, there were protests against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in Glens Falls, Saranac Lake, Ogdensburg, Potsdam and Plattsburgh.
Mar 09, 2021 Conversations about systemic racism and policing are happening across the North Country right now, sparked by a statewide mandate to reform law enforcement agencies after the death of George Floyd last summer. The reform process has revealed deep divisions in the way people think about racial bias and policing in the North Country.
Emily RussellNorth Country police face calls to end systemic racism. Many doubt it exists
People packed the streets of Plattsburgh in early June 2020 for a Black Lives Matter march. Photo: Emily Russell
After George Floyd was killed by police, people in the North Country protested against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, organizing rallies in Glens Falls, Saranac Lake, Ogdensburg, Potsdam, and Plattsburgh.
Conversations about systemic racism and policing are happening across the North Country right now, sparked by a statewide mandate to reform law enforcement agencies after the death of George Floyd last summer. The reform process has revealed deep.
File photo of Postdam police. Photo: Julia Ritchey, NCPR
Mar 03, 2021
The Police Advisory Committee for the village of Potsdam has resumed work. The committee canceled a meeting last month after the only Black members said they wanted to resign in December. The re-organized group is now seeking public input about citizens’ interactions with village police officers through a survey.
One of the people who wanted to resign is Professor John Youngblood of SUNY Potsdam. But, he has remained involved with the group and was main author of the survey.
Youngblood praised it during the group’s most recent meeting last week.