.CoryBooker believes that police bias training can work, if it’s coupled with accountability. He talked to us about working on policies to handle police misconduct, how mental wellness comes into play, and his hopes for the future
was getting ready to distribute resources to the homeless and test vulnerable populations for COVID-19 when he was arrested and detained outside his home. Henderson believes he was racially profiled.
MTV News: What prompted you, Kamala Harris, and the rest of your colleagues to send this letter off to Attorney General Barr and Chris Wray?I'm on the Judiciary Committee. I talked to them both very long about implicit racial bias in policing and how we still have widely disproportionate levels of use of force in our country by police officers on African Americans. And this is deadly. You know, the number of police shootings in our country are still unconscionably high.
MTV News: Does implicit bias training work? Because I'm from the South Side of Chicago. I covered the Laquan McDonald shooting, the 17-year-old who was gunned down by Jason Van Dyke, and in Chicago,for something like thatBooker:
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