i know she worked really hard, i would just ask that we yield the floor to jenel very briefly. >> thank you, good evening, commissioners, chief scott, members of the public and acting director rosenstein. just a quick word, i would like to echo the praise to officer chris jones, i don't get to vote but i would recommend him for to get certificate up here. i would also like to thank chief scott, an important sentence was add today ensure that no incidents like what happened with sandra bland can happen again. there is a important language that officers are allowed to exercise their discretion with regard to traffic engagement to either dis engage and issue a warning or use deescalating. to have included and it could have gotten in there without chief scott coming to the rescue. so thank you. >> see when we collaborate we do great work. >> i want to add that i saw that horse going down the road, but to executive the acting executive director's point, and thank you to dpa who was involved and thank you for the praise of officer jones and some of his colleagues also some of our smes and eve

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