choking of george floyd in minneapolis to the crippling shots, fired into the back of the surviving jacob blake. and no, she was content. the memphis assault was so ferocious, it reminded many of the brutal 1991 los angeles police beating of rodney king also captured on video. since then, police have grown more militarized, but they're also more monitored. there's been progress and holding police accountable for misbehavior through technologies that record what they do at the scene. there's not been progress on the street toward repairing the fracture relationship between black urban america and police officers. last year, police killed nearly 1200 people in the us, according to the nonprofit group mapping police violence more than in any year. in the past decade in black americans made up 26 percent of them, though they make up just 13 percent of the population across the country. it's not just communities that are demoralized. it's also the police themselves here in chicago over the past year. they've up recruitment efforts bringing and 950 new officers, but it's still well short of the 1000