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A Conversation with the Police - Emmanuel Acho

https://youtu.be/pM-HpZQWKT4

Milestone conversations:

• 11:00 - Black police officers and black communities.
• 12:00 - Black lives matter - social movement or campaign? "Focus on continuing it as a movement so we can create a successful outcome."
• 14:00 - Defund the police, mental health crisis, safety and social work.
• 15:00 - Supporting our police, building/re-building and maintaining community. "We want to be a part of the solution."
• 16:00 - Restructuring policing in America, paradigm shift. "It comes down to communication and dialogue and creating that opportunity.
• 17:00 - A message to our black children. "We're here for you... we're here to help you."
• 18:00 - How do we abolish racism? Media and telling the truth.
• 19:00 - Bridging the gap. "Bad news sells way better than good news."

Notable quotes:
"An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure."

"Proximity breeds care and distance breeds fear."

"Who's gonna police the police?"

"You feel like you're in control when you're a police officer but then you don't have control, that's when it really affects you... we're human."

"Maintaining the composure, maintaining the calm and continuing to assert exactly why it is that you are there. If we could do a better job disarming, then we wouldn't have to worry about discharging."

"If you don't grow up around something then you're not really going to know how to communicate with that thing and it's not the same. Communicating with a white cultured person versus a black cultured person is different."

"You can't fix a problem you don't know exists."

"We don't do a good enough job collectively as a country letting the good news resonate."

"We can't be a part of the solution if we're part of the problem."

Concepts to consider:
Justice, decisive, equal punishment, ethics, morals, appropriate accountability, racial tension, barriers to communication, black officers, blame and balance, truth, service, conversation, situational awareness, community and camaraderie, collective shift, focus.