This is what we stood up and said in a 1992 press release after police in Los Angeles viciously beat Rodney King (the beginning of citizens posting video accounts of bad police behaviors) and were acquitted by a jury.
The resulting civil disturbances left 63 people dead, over 2,000 injured, more than 12,000 arrests, and property damage over $1 billion.
If your police agency made a public statement after George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, let me know and I will post it here.
I served over 20 years as the chief of police in Madison (WI), four years as chief of the Burnsville (MN) Police Department, and before that as a police officer in Edina (MN) and the City of Minneapolis. I hold graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota and Edgewood College in Madison. I have written many articles over my years as a police leader. After retiring from the police department, I answered a call to ministry, attended seminary, and was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church. After 25 years leading two Episcopal Churches in Portage and North Lake, Wisconsin, I now serve as Associate Pastor in a growing, dynamic, and Spirit-filled Lutheran congregation in nearby Mazomanie.
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