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intimidated, or think that they will get it right for us this time, they are not going to get it right for you. the democrats do not have an agenda for african americans, they have them for others, but not african-americans. this president is doing it for america, and each and every opportunity. everybody toi ask join me and reelecting donald j. trump as president. katrina: thank you for joining us, and thank you everybody at home for tuning in. -- seveneven eggs nights a week and check our online schedule for our next real talk. until then, stay safe, healthy, and we will see you next time. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] discusseshil murphy his coronavirus response efforts as well as the ongoing protest over george floyd's death. it is moderated by anup palmer
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and jake sherman. live coverage begins at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. or facebook.com/c-span. monmouth university released a recent poll taking a look at relations between police and minority communities. here are some of the findings from that pole. it showed 87% of those polled felt that individuals of their race are more likely than whites to experience excessive force. 49% of white americans say police are more likely to use excessive force against a black culprit, and 39% of whites say police are just as likely to use excessive force regardless of race. that was done by monmouth university. atre is more to the poll their website. several communities are reaching out to dialogue with members of minority communities on the topic of policing. i will show you a couple. this from kansas city, kansas.
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saying the mayor once members of the community to share their experience and establish ongoing dialogue between the african-american and hispanic communities and law enforcement. the task force they're putting together will tackle difficult issues, including defining excessive force, identifying bias, and eliminating unequal treatment by law enforcement. that is kansas city. the fremont news messenger reports efforts going on on the same front in ohio with the ther being asked what community could do to begin healing within that community. he said the city made a lot of changes in terms of trying to improve dialogue between the police and residents, working with community relations, and the commission there, and understanding the need for more minority representation. "everyoneding, saying on the call realizes we need to do more."
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even in your read, pennsylvania pennsylvania,e, saying "we are committed to illuminating racial disparity. we are getting good ideas from a lot of different people on how quickly."ick up more that is the mayor of erie. there was a march where he and the bishop participated. the bishop said we will have tangible steps we can take in erie, pennsylvania to make it the all american city. that is some of the things going on across communities when it comes to dialogue between the police and minority communities. you can share your experiences. three lines you can call. eastern and central time zones, (202) 748-8000. mountain pacific time zones, (202) 748-8001, and if you're a
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member of law enforcement, call us at (202) 748-8002. you can post on your twitter and facebook pages. if you want to text just, you can do so at (202) 748-8003. nevada.art this off in how would you characterize that relationship? caller: thank you for taking my call. thereed to say i was 1971, 1972. i've been on the wrong end of a police baton a couple of times when we were at peace marches. copsre peaceful and the came to cause trouble. this is nothing new. it is the same tactics going on. we do need change. how would you describe the situation there in nevada? we have about 80 virus
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cases. we are only a count of 13,000. we have had a couple of deaths. everybody is socially distancing pretty well. host: when it comes to police and minority relationships in your town, how would you describe that? caller: this has changed quite a bit. it is a lot better and has been for about two to three years. policexperience, the have been accommodating and helpful. we have had a little of trouble is nond there, but there systemic racism here, i do not think. , but it iserywhere not over, does not like what
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happened in minnesota. in nevada.is les from missouri, nathan, your next. caller: i wanted to comment on police and minority communities, especially the black community. missouri, we in are right next door to st. louis. it is basically st. louis. the situation is that when you do not have enough black force,s or the police they cannot relate to the black community. when you do not have black officers, you have white officers. they cannot relate to the black community. they cannot relate to black culture. right now, there is a protest
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going on because a cop, a white male.r, ran over a black he was a suspect. allegedly, there was something that happened, but the young male was suspect. he put his hands up and said ok, he is surrendering, and the white cop hit him with the car. they are protesting right now. situations like that, you can see that predominantly there is not enough black officers. the same thing that happened in ferguson. ferguson, missouri is right next door. when you do not have enough black officers on the police force, there is a big cultural dialogue,you cannot you cannot communicate with the community well.
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host: that is nathan in missouri. he brings up the number of black officers on police forces. there was something called the 2018 american community survey done as part of the u.s. census, and here are some of the findings they found when it comes to share of law enforcement by race and ethnicity. when it comes to white officers share,ce forces, that 62% compared to 61 percent of whites in the total population. lacks, 15 point 5% of officers are african-american. -- 15.5%. of african-americans in the total population. when it comes to hispanic and , 14.5% of those making up members of law enforcement
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compared to 18.3% of the total population. there is more to this. you can find the website at axios. ahead.york, barbara, go talking about relations between communities. caller: i think if we got the police department to join in with the community and educate the police officers. as a he said, we know better, we will not pull that trigger, very seldom will we pull the trigger. we do, but not as much as the white. white officers are angry, and he said we do not know why, they
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are even angry with us according to my nephew. he said come time -- sometimes i will come in and they will make racist remarks and you swallow it. type of education is needed? have everyould police officer who joined the police force or already in the police force, let them see videotapes of all the hispanics, or whatever race that was mistreated, killed, or whatever they have done to hurt a family or herding human beings. you have to let them see these videotapes and discuss it later why we should not do things like this. i am a registered nurse. we have to go through an educational program when we sign up at our hospital. ofhave to see videotapes certain diseases and certain policies and procedures, so maybe if they did that and got the community involved with the police officers, maybe things could be better, i think we
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should work with them, do not destroy them. host: let us go to minneapolis, minnesota. we will hear jonathan's perspective. caller: thank you for having a smart conversation about race relations. speaking about -- >> hosting a virtual playbook interview to talk about how the garden state is handling the coronavirus pandemic, how the state's reopening and what assistance he would like. anna: it is part of a new playbook series, inside recovery, which would bring viewers behind the scenes as we topped -- talk to top leaders about how they are navigating the new world order and putting forth ideas to help america course correct ahead of the 2020 presidential election. if you have questions, you can #atpolilitico with
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