please join me in welcoming redditt hudson to beaver diversity -- to the university of delaware. [applause] redditt: thank you for having me. i'm very glad to be here with you to talk about race in america, and more importantly, for me, to talk about police community relations and some of the dynamics we have seen relative to race and police in the united states in the last 18, 24 months. i'm very glad to have this opportunity to speak to you. my colleagues who also share a law enforcement background, and a lot of times the mainstream presentation of police points of view, you don't hear from officers who understand the history of policing in america and the relationship between police and black communities that they serve in urban core communities across this country. just to tell you a little bit about who i am before i get started, my name is redditt hudson, and i'm a lot of things. i'm a father, a son, former st. louis university basketball player, former racial justice manager to the aclu, currently regional field organizer for the naacp. i'm speaking strictly in the capacit

tonight, redditt hudson is the founder of the national coalition of law enforcement officers. this includes current and former police officers around the country who are committed to challenging the institutional racism that is at the foundation of our criminal justice system and found in police culture throughout america. is also the board chair for the st. louis missouri based ethics project. he is also a former st. louis police officer. he left the force in 1999 the focus on addressing systematic problems in the criminal justice system, abuse police authority, and improving the police community relationship. he is the author of the critical investigative report, "suffering in silence," which catalogs human rights abuses in st. louis jails, and which has led to several formal actions to address the conditions in them. please join me in welcoming redditt hudson to beaver diversity -- to the university of delaware. [applause] redditt: thank you for having me. i'm very glad to be here with you to talk about race in america, and more importantly, for me, to talk about police com

please join me in welcoming redditt hudson to the university of delaware. [applause] mr. hudson: thank you for having me. i have had quite the day. i am getting my second wind now and i'm glad to be here with you to talk about race in america. more importantly, for me, to talk about police community relations and some of the dynamics we have seen relative to race and police in the united states in the last 18, 24 months. i'm very glad to have this opportunity to speak to you. if they decide to run part of , as on c-span, the country different perspective from law enforcement. my colleagues who also share a law enforcement background, and a lot of times the mainstream presentation of police points of view, you don't hear from officers who understand the history of policing in america and the relationship between police and black communities that they serve in urban core communities across this country. just to tell you a little bit about who i am before i get started, my name is redditt hudson, and i'm a lot of things. i'm a father, a son, former st. louis university basket

so just to tell you about who i am before i get started, my name is redditt hudson.ot of things. i'm a father, a son, a former st. louis university basketball player, former racial justice manager at the aclu. currently raging field organization for the naacp, although i'm not here today in a capacitor i'm speaking stood in the capacity of my position as cofounder and the board chair of the ethics project. and i've had to talk to you tonight as candidly as i can in a space in our history where your generation talking to the college students here, and the organizers on this campus and around the country have put us in a position to expect real change, we'll change. and that has to happen. so to lay the foundation for you i want to share some things with you about my experiences when i was on the department. and then i will get to my remarks. to give you a sense, a foundational sense of some of what this movement that you've seen grow from ferguson all the way around the world has been vilified, wrongfully in so many corners, is really about. so early in my career, i w

just to tell you a little bit about who i am before i get started, my name is redditt hudson, and i'm a lot of things. i'm a father, a son, former st. louis university basketball player, former racial justice manager to the aclu, currently regional field organizer for the naacp. i'm speaking strictly in the capacity of my position. i'm here to talk to you tonight as candidly as i can in a space in our history -- i'm talking to the college students here, and the organizers on this campus and around the country, that put us in a position to affect real change. real change. and this has to happen. to lay the foundation for you, i wanted to share some things with you about my experiences when i was on the department. and then i will bring my remarks, to give you a sense, a foundational sense of some of what this movement that you've from ferguson all the way around the world has been vilified wrongfully in so many corners is really about. early in my career, i was working with an officer, female officer, and this officer happened to be a white female officer. not only did white officers a

and this is parkstorm saying, i totally agree with this man, redditt g back to hudson. special prosecutors need to be cases like mike brown and tamir rice. here's steve. right now, we're seeing racists in shock now that we have the president.k once we get past the novelty, things should get better. larry, in indianapolis, indiana, 50 and over. larry, good morning. caller: good morning. happy new year to you. i've seen -- i was -- my ex-wife, my deceased wife, which is white, we were married in 1979, and there were places that we would go here in the city where you would see people look at you with disgust, with but you know, fast-forward now, you just don't see those looks anymore, so i think we're getting better. we still have a way to go, but we are getting better. i can even see -- you see it dating. interracial you don't see that hatred -- you don't see that look. host: larry, why do you think it is? why do you think you've experienced the change? you r: well, actually, now, at that time, we were going to some of the major tores here, grocery stores, or department s