SO
SO STAND
SO STAND BY FOR NEWS FROM SENATOR JEFF JACKSON COMING UP IN THE NEW YEAR.
MORE FLASH POINT AFTER THIS.
>> WELCOME BACK TO FLASHPOINT.
WE'RE LOOKING BACK ON THE YEAR
2020 AND IN ANY OTHER YEAR THIS
WOULD BE THE BIGGEST STORY OF
THE YEAR.
A RECKONING ON RACIAL JUSTICE.
UNLIKE WE HAVE EVER SEEN
BEFORE.
IT CAME AFTER THE DEATHS OF
GEORGE FLOYD AMONT AUBREY AND
BRIONA TAYLOR.
THE WORLD WATCHED AS
MINNEAPOLIS POLICEMAN KNELT ON
FLOYD'S NECK FOR MORE THAN
EIGHT MINUTES THE WHOLE TIME.
FLOYD CALLING OUT THAT HE
COULDN'T BREATHE EVENTUALLY
CALLING OUT FOR MOM BEFORE HE
TOOK HIS LAST BREATH.
AND THEN NOT AUBREY GUNNED DOWN
AS HE WAS SIMPLY JOGGING IN A
NEIGHBORHOOD IN GEORGIA.
THE MEN ACCUSED OF SHOOTING HIM
SAID THEY'VE THOUGHT AUBREY WAS
STEANG STUFF FROM THE HOMES
UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND THEY
WERE JUST PROTECTING THEIR
NEIGHBORHOOD IS WHAT THEY SAID
.
EMBRYONAL TAYLOR SHOT IN HER
OWN APARTMENT BY POLICE.
LOUISVILLE POLICE LOOKING FOR A
SUSPECT CAME TO BRIANNA'S
APARTMENT, OPENED FIRE SHOOTING
AND KILLING HER IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE NIGHT WHILE SHE WAS
SLEEPING IN HER BED.
>> ALL THESE DEATHS LEADING
PROTESTS IN THE STREETS ALL
ACROSS THE WORLD INCLUDING
RIGHT HERE IN CHARLOTTE.
THIS IS VIDEO YOU SEE THERE
AFTER AN INCIDENT DURING A
PROTEST IN UPTOWN CMPD LAUNCH A
REVIEW OF ITS POLICIES.
OFFICERS WERE ACCUSED TRAPPING
A GROUP OF DEMONSTRATORS WITH
TEARGAS AFTER THE REVIEW, CMPD
JOHNNY GENEINA TOLD CITY
LEADERS THE DEPARTMENT IS DOING
AWAY WITH ITS USE OF TO YOUR
GAS ALTHOUGH SOME PEPPER SPRAY
AS AN OPTION TO BREAK UP CROWDS
WHO REFUSED TO LEAVE.
>> WE HAVE PULLED THE CHEMICAL
AGENT WHEN IT COMES TO RIOT
CONTROL AND DISPERSAL OF CROWDS
THAT WE NO LONGER WILL BE USING
C.
S C.
C. S C.
C. S C. >> S IS POLICE SPEAK FOR TEAR
GAS OFFICERS WILL USE PEPPER
SPRAY INSTEAD.
THE CHANGE COMES AFTER CMPD USE
THE HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL METHOD
TO DISPERSE PROTESTERS BACK IN
JUNE WHILE MARCHING IN UPTOWN
IN THE WAKE OF GEORGE FLOYDS
DEATH.
PROTESTERS SAY OFFICERS TRAPPED
HIM ON FOURTH STREET AND THEN
USED TEAR GAS AND PEPPER AT
US.
THEY'VE THROWN OUT TEAR GAS.
THE INCIDENT PUT THE DEPARTMENT
UNDER FIRE AND CIVIL RIGHTS
GROUPS SUED THE DEPARTMENT.
CMPD AND CITY COUNCIL ALSO
MAKING CHANGES TIED TO THE
EIGHT CAN'T WAIT INITIATIVE
AIMED AT POLICE REFORM.
THE DEPARTMENT ADOPTED EIGHT
NEW POLICIES INCLUDI INCLUDING S
LIKE BANNING CHOKEHOLD
DE-ESCALATION TACTICS, DUTY TO
INTERVENE, BANNING SHOOTING AT
MOVING VEHICLES.
THE CHIEF SAYING THE CBD IS ONE
OF ONLY 10 DEPARTMENTS IN THE
TOP POPULATED CITIES TO MEET
ALL EIGHT STANDARDS.
DURING THESE PROTESTS ACROSS
THE COUNTRY WHERE THE RALLYING
CRY DEFUND THE POLICE OR IN
SOME CASES CALLS TO DISBAND THE
POLICE OR EVEN ABOLISH THEM
COMPLETELY.
THESE DEMANDS SOUNDED QUITE
RADICAL.
QUITE FRINGE TO A LOT OF PEOPLE
BUT THEY'RE NOT ENTIRELY NEW.
A LOT OF FOLKS WONDERING WHAT
THEY MEAN.
LET'S START WITH DEFUNDING THE
POLICE.
>> IN MOST INSTANCES THIS TYPE
OF REFORM IS LESS ABOUT
ELIMINATING POLICE DEPARTMENTS
AND MORE ABOUT REALLOCATING THE
MONEY THAT FUNDS THEM TO
ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSES OF
CRIME.
THE BLACK LIVES MATTER
ORGANIZATION CALLING FOR A
NATIONAL DEFUNDING THE POLICE.
BUT THE SPECIFICS LOOK
DIFFERENT IN EACH AND EVERY
CITY.
ANOTHER WAY A CITY COULD
EXECUTE SWEEPING OVERHAULS IN
LAW ENFORCEMENT IS TO DISBAND
ITS POLICE FORCE AND REBUILD IT
FROM SCRATCH.
THAT STRATEGY IS RARE.
FINALLY, THE MOST RADICAL PLAN
FOR POLICE REFORM INVOLVES
ABOLISHING POLICE ALTOGETHER
SIMILAR TO THE DEFUNDING
APPROACH.
MOST THE ACTIVISTS IN THIS CAMP
ARE IN FAVOR OF STRENGTHENING
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
IN PLACE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.
MOST ORGANIZERS ADVOCATING FOR
THIS PLAN ADMIT IT WILL TAKE A
LOT OF TIME AND SOCIETAL CHANGE
BEFORE IT'S AN ACTUAL VIABLE
OPTION.
THE CALL TO DEFUND POLICE COMES
AS SHORT.
I'VE SEEN MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED
AND TEN HOMICIDES THIS YEAR IN
ALL.
LAST YEAR THERE WERE 103.
SO WE'VE ALREADY SURPASSED THAT
WITH A LITTLE BIT LEFT OF THIS
YEAR.
CMPD CHIEF JOHNNY JENINE SAYS
THIS COMMUNITY HAS GOT TO DO
BETTER.
>> OBVIOUSLY VERY, VERY
CONCERNING FOR US WITH THE
NUMBERS THAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING
THIS YEAR SOME OF THE VIOLENCE
IN THE GUN, SOME OF THE ISSUES
THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH WITH
GUNSHOTS AND GUNFIRE THAT WE'RE
CONCERNED WITH WHERE WE ARE TO
MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN PUT A
STOP TO THIS, CMPD SAYS.
>> MANY OF THESE HOMICIDES
STARTED AS A SYMBOL ARGUMENT
BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE