In the news: Dr. Yohuru Williams five years after George Floyd's death – newsroom

When America is thinking about the fifth anniversary from the date of George Floyd's murder, Dr. Yohuru Williams, founding director of the racial equity initiative at the University of St. Thomas, with several media that discuss the effects of the history of police brutality and the racism in the USA.

In the morning edition of MPR News with Cathy Wurzer, Williams, a respected university chairman and history professor in St. Thomas, said: “Many people work on the assumption that what happened to George Floyd was an anomaly.

Williams spoke again with Wurzer at TPTS almanacThis time about the federal government, which cleared the declarations of consent that were present in the Minneapolis police.

As a result, Williams said:

“I think part of the challenge at this moment is that people really still hope for the tragedy with the happy ending. We have no happy ending here. We have the work that is still to be done, and we continue to write this story. And I hope that the community will continue to follow the work of the work of people who can continue to follow the Minnesota justice, the Minnesota justice. To support the work of the police.

The Native America Calling Show had Williams as a guest for a 15-minute segment to discuss the Federal Government that the Ministry of Justice (DOJ) for police stations in Minneapolis, Phoenix, Louisville and other cities is required.

Williams said: “You really would have to reinterpret the police work in the public security model and recognize the historical roots of police work in this community. The Minneapolis police were formed in 1867 after the civil war, and what often forgotten how this calculation was that a large part of your mission was black and brown body, are black and india – indigenous and indigenous people and people. And black people and black people and black people – people and black people – people and black people – people and black people and black people – people and black people – people and black people and black people and black people. “

He added: “The stories that tell our communities about the brutality of the police, about unfair treatment, about denying justice, ultimately come from a place of experience. These are not things that we invented. These are actually the experiences of people in the community.”

He also discussed the moral of the police.

“After the murder of George Floyd, there was a decline in morality and a decline in morality among the civil servants within the department, because who wanted to be associated with the country's notorious police department at that time? In fact, when we think about the global response to the murder of George Floyd. Were those within the department that opposed and against the types of reforms and transformative changes that were many in the community asked for this time.

From the Womens Press article, Williams quotes:

“Pay attention to a reform that does not contain a neutral. Caution of reform indicators that are determined by people who are more invested in the mission than to achieve material changes.”

He quoted from the Tina Turner song “We don't need any other hero.”

From the ruins
Out of the debris
I can't make the same mistake this time

I wonder when we will ever change
To live under the fear until nothing else remains

We don't need any other hero