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Children are often afraid of police, and officers who just want to help can feel like unwanted outsiders.
It’s a serious problem facing many communities across the nation. But in New Haven, Dan Zimmerman, CEO and co-founder of LiveKind, said he’s created a series of videos for New Haven that can help improve tense relations between communities and law enforcement, and bring them to understand each other. He titled it “Cops & Kids.” Bring this project to your department!
It’s a serious problem facing many communities across the nation. But in New Haven, Dan Zimmerman, CEO and co-founder of LiveKind, said he’s created a series of videos for New Haven that can help improve tense relations between communities and law enforcement, and bring them to understand each other. He titled it “Cops & Kids.” Bring this project to your department!
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“Like how they did to that man at the corner store,” the young girl says in the video. “Where they like, choked him. [And he was] saying that he can’t breathe and stuff. That’s how I think about it.”
“It’s just sad because the guy didn’t even do anything,” another girl says as she starts to cry. “But the fact that the white police officers hurt him for doing nothing—like that could happen to anybody, any day, any minute. That’s what gets me scared. I’m just scared that that’s me one day. I don’t want to think about it but it happens.”
“It’s just sad because the guy didn’t even do anything,” another girl says as she starts to cry. “But the fact that the white police officers hurt him for doing nothing—like that could happen to anybody, any day, any minute. That’s what gets me scared. I’m just scared that that’s me one day. I don’t want to think about it but it happens.”
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“Like how they did to that man at the corner store,” the young girl says in the video. “Where they like, choked him. [And he was] saying that he can’t breathe and stuff. That’s how I think about it.”
“It’s just sad because the guy didn’t even do anything,” another girl says as she starts to cry. “But the fact that the white police officers hurt him for doing nothing—like that could happen to anybody, any day, any minute. That’s what gets me scared. I’m just scared that that’s me one day. I don’t want to think about it but it happens.”
“It’s just sad because the guy didn’t even do anything,” another girl says as she starts to cry. “But the fact that the white police officers hurt him for doing nothing—like that could happen to anybody, any day, any minute. That’s what gets me scared. I’m just scared that that’s me one day. I don’t want to think about it but it happens.”
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