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It hasn’t just been the high profile shooting of Rayshard Brooks that has outraged the community in the US, but also the way that police forces across the country have in general been dealing violently with protesters in the last couple of weeks.
Hallie Golden has been reporting for us in Seattle on the outrage sparked by a video clip that went viral, showing a police officer firing mace at a family group that included a 7 year old child.
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Chris Stewart, who is the attorney for the family of Rayshard Brooks, has also been on television this morning. He raised the issue of the mentality employed by police officers, saying “You can have all the training in the world but if you aren’t mentally understanding the community you are policing, if you aren’t mentally understanding that the value of someone’s life is more important than them running away from you, then all the training in the world won’t work”
Watch it here:
“It’s more mentality because you can have all the training in the world but if you aren’t mentally understanding the community you’re policing … then all the training in the world won’t work. It’s a mentality issue.” L. Chris Stewart, attorney for family of Rayshard Brooks pic.twitter.com/pjDRIlolr3
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