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Can you train bias out of police departments?

Can you train bias out of our police departments? Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Terence Monahan, Chief of Department of the NYPD, discuss how to stop police brutality against black people. Social Psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff, who conducted anti-bias training programs for the Minneapolis Police Department, talks about the need to eradicate the culture of violence that he says is poisoning the nation’s police departments.

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Birdwatcher on being racially targeted

Christian Cooper was birdwatching in New York's Central Park when he encountered a woman whose dog was loose. He says he politely asked her to leash the animal, but she became agitated. As he filmed her reaction, the woman called police and told them: "There is an African American man. I am in Central Park. He is recording me and threatening me and my dog." Cooper and his sister believe the woman was using Christian's race to get the police to respond.

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