Shortly after the murder of George Floyd a program coordinator at the CA Youth and Teen Center invited me to participate in a community session with the Howard County Police and local community members. There was a moderator from Howard County, can’t remember the department. His name was Trent. He was fabulous. There were about 25 people and it was a very powerful and balanced meeting. It gave me some background information on how there are so few black police officers in Howard County, which I found amazing and also all the reasons police officers have to answer to statistics about how many people are arrested, fined etc. Felt liked their hands are somehow tied to how they respond in certain situations.
