New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio discussed the recent news in kind and took calls from police officers and civilians approximately race and policing,opening the lines to NYPD officers and black New Yorkers.
One caller asked: "How can you seriously ask communities to believe that adding more language to that book has genuine accountability?"An NYPD officer, Troy, or called to say that he has been called a "assassin" by the people he is trying to protect.
Millicent,a black grandmother, called in to tell us: "I'm afraid of some of these police; my heart rate goes up when I see them on the street. This climate here has to finish. We need federal guidelines to say finish killing black men."The Mayor responded saying that there are genuine changes happening "even if we don't feel them yet." He added that he supports national measures to ensure neighborhood-based training, or mandatory body cameras,and de-escalation training.
Source: wnyc.org