. >> reporter: 39-year-old regi wingo lives in berkshire count massachusetts. it's quintessential new england: quaint, very beautiful, and very white-- about 92% of the 125,000 residents here, to be precise. wingoorks for the elizabeth freeman center, which offers services to domestic violence survivors. he manages their work in great barrington, the town where he grew up. >> growing up around here was complicated. you sort , like, as a person of color in an area like this that's predominantly white, you have to have, like, a different set of survival skills almost, like, socially. and i think the first time i really noticed that, like, it mattered at all, was, like, in fourth grade, you know? like, we're at recess and i, like, get in a fight with a kid over, like, kickball or something totallyidiculous. and you know, he called me a ( bleep ). that's when i sat down and had, like, the first talk, like, with my parents about, like, how some people are-- are racist and, like, that is a fact. >> reporter: black people make up only a little more than 3.5% of the po

melanie wingo talked with some of them who are trying to cope with the most recent hardship. >> reporterpen community resource center in orrville. >> it is nice not have to sit in my car. >> not amused by many, it is help thing laura mcinerney as she waits out the most recent round of public safety power shutoffs. >> that way i don't have to be so nervous. >> reporter: it is those emergencies and challenges that the people of butte county have experienced their fair share of. >> it has been a roller coaster of ptsd with the fires and no power and the heat. it has been hard. >> reporter: is at a busy gas station and shopping center, more people are doing their best to process the month that has been september 2020. >> it is natural, being up here and in fire season, it comes natural. i am ready for it. >> they are also feeling for their neighbors that have been harder hit by wildfires and another round of power shutoffs. >> a goes out to the ones that did lose their homes and animals. >> reporter: back at the resource center, she hopes more people make use of setups like this. others, not

si money wingo worked with chief hall and spent 29 years in the dallas police force and jinsz joins ust. good morning to you. good morning ainsley. thank you for having me. ainsley: you are welcome. ainsley: every day you get up, you cisz your loved ones goodbye. you put your uniform on and badge on and face the unknowns, what exactly are officers and police chiefs going through? >> well, in -- for chief hall, i think that, you know, she started the class of leaders. it wasn't just the leaders but the very officers who served under her leadership, you know, from the beginning. she came in agenda in her agenda didn't include the most teble you'red commanders on the department. she demoted a lot of them and it didn't go over well. i think the beginning of her decline was when hundreds were arrested, including those who marched on the city bridge during the george floyd protest. most of them were charged and then the charges were immediately dropped. this made the city look really, really bad. and everyone knows that politicians hate to look bad. so i think under these circumstances, it's

monesomalian wingo. this is not okay we tried federal troops it. got a bad reaction locally.ther message it's funny that a.g. barr has stated that the dollars would be wasted because businesses aren't being protected and now these cities are crying this is so unfair. so, how unfair is it? you are wanting to defund the police departments in your cities. you know, you are allowing people to be murdered, raped, robbed on the streets and pulling the police officers back. i think it's two fold it's bad on one hand and good on the other. who is going to really, you know who is it really going to help if do you this? it's really a hard thing to look at. i tell you what's really unfair is to keep the police away when people are needing help. brian: absolutely. dr. odom, the nypd basically told everybody to stand down, let everyone blow off steam took a billion dollars out of the budget. and then when it comes to actually policing. they have cut the academy. why should the president step up? >> he definitely should step up to make sure safety public. apparently they are not reading th