There have been 31 fatal police shootings this year, on pace for 71, according to data from the National Law Enforcement Officers’ Memorial Fund.
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“It’s overwhelming – the kindness that people show in times like this”, Reynolds said. Councilmembers called the two-hour discussion, “unprecedented”.
He said they’re specifically studying the Castile shooting in Minnesota to learn how to deal with somebody who is knowingly armed and notifies police they are carrying a weapon.
Please join me by sharing words of encouragement and thanks to law enforcement officers everywhere.
Owen, a former Sacramento High School principal and former Superintendent of New Technology High School, said the group wants to be proactive and prevent what’s happening across the country from happening in Sacramento. And while Grady focused much of his extensive interview on the us-vs. -them mentality of police officers, Brown used a recent briefing to tell protesters who are unhappy with the police in their own cities to change who is “us” and who is “them”. Many who spoke at the meeting shared that it’s the other way around, that they have reason to fear the police.
Critics said the continuing focus on how Black people should respond and interact with police instead of police accountability is steering possible solutions in the wrong direction.
Some police officers are barely paid minimum wage.
“When a citizen of East Sacramento sees a patrol auto cruising down the street, they feel protected”. The suspect, who was described as wearing all black, was then seen standing near a vehicle wash.
“Then God dropped in my heart that I need to reach out to someone else to pray with, someone outside my race”.
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“Through training, we are addressing these shootings and how we can learn from them”, Garrison said, adding that the goal is to avoid them altogether. She believes that most of the cops are “good people”.
“I walked out into the street to see what was going on, there was a man lying in the street”, the witness said. He also said the support coming from the community to local law enforcement has been tremendous. District 8 Councilmember Larry Carr said there should be a policy that dictates termination for officers who shoot an unarmed person.
“I walked into the home, and it was this 80-year-old lady who said that she didn’t have any family members in the area and if she bent down to light the pilot light, she might not get back up”, he said.
Rev. Ross said council members “sit in treasured seats and hold positions of power and influence”. “You who are seated here today have an opportunity to help relieve and eliminate the crisis”, said the Unity Church pastor.
What occurred in Dallas on July 7 is an attack on law enforcement like we have never seen before.
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City Councilman Allen Warren said working together, all must be constructive in their actions. “We’ve been very blessed”.
