People in the community were not holding back...
Former US Attorney Kenyen Brown received input before finishing his much-anticipated report on MPD’s use-of-force policy.Mayor Sandy Stimpson requested the report after four deadly encounters involving Mobile police officers last year.
Several times throughout the meeting on Wednesday, people became angry and passionate expressing not only their opinions but frustrations.“I think that the police department should change their way of training. I don’t believe they should shoot to kill. I believe a gunshot to the foot or the arm will be just as effective,” one man expressed.An ordinance was shot down this week by the Mobile city council that could have banned those raids.A practice some say they aren’t in favor of.
“Knocking doors down, kicking their doors down just because you said and you could be at the wrong house,” one woman said. “But if I shine my flashlight and you think it’s a gun you’ll shoot me. This is why people do not like police officers. This is the reason why they don’t like them because they don’t do things right.”He wouldn’t say which incidents.And two controversial encounters caught on camera.“He was pulled over for tinted windows.
“He had black people over there cops in the black communities hiding out waiting on people to commit crimes,” Sabrina Mass said. “This is the facts. I’ve been here this is the truth.”Kenyen Brown says he he will take the comments he heard at the town hall and bring recommendations forth to the city and police department.His report should be complete by mid-April and it will be released to the public.
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